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so today is a pretty big day first of all it is the day that I'm going to be unboxing a very cool product from silverstone this is the silverstone hard drive boost or HDD boost and he's also an exciting day because it is the last day of the esters easter extravaganza my camera here and have a look at that Esther's Easter extravaganza a chance to win a basket bonanza sweepstakes where you have a chance to win a card with sorry a card a system with a GTX 480 graphics card so that is and this is the code word if you're here looking for that a fer me fer M I so without further ado why don't we get started on the HDD boost unboxing so it comes in a fairly simple brown box you can see here and okay yeah it's a very simple box easy to install compatible with most two and a half inch SATA SSDs minimum SSD data right times help extend the SSD lifecycle so as you may or may not know SSDs do have a limited number of times that you can actually write to the whole disk and then we write rewrite rewrite over it so while with most modern SSDs it's not a huge problem they're still saying that yes you know what this will go ahead and it'll reduce the number of writes that you're doing so it'll increase the lifetime of the drive great you can boost your original system hard drive read speeds without reinstalling your operating system that's pretty cool too so create your home super drive with maximum storage and maximum speed so they're basically saying that you get all of the benefit of an SSD which is fast response times with all of the benefit of a hard drive which is inexpensive and high capacity so here we are let me see it's Mikkel it is one millimeter SPCC with nickel plating it needs five bulletins from the PC power supply the requirements are fairly simply you need to have an SSD and a hard drive so let's get this opened up and have a look at what's inside the first thing we're gonna see I'm gonna go ahead and adjust my camera here I'm in my little video sort of box so to speak alright so let's have a look at this package here first of all we will find four regular sized hard drive screws and two small ones with what looks like like a small threatening on them so we got six crews in there the next thing we have is a SATA cable with locking connectors all right that looks like a six-inch cable by the way and then we have the hard drive boost Wow that was a very simple package okay so inside the hard drive boost we will find a place to mount an SSD drive yeah we'll find a place to mount an SSD drive so you've got our two and a half inch mounting holes here here here and we have two that's it two holes okay I guess that's what those two small ones are for and then this is actually a three and a half inch adapter so you'll use those full-size screws in order to mount this inside your computer so you can see that the interface on the back this is where it gets a little bit more complicated you've got your SATA power in then you have SATA data then you have another SATA data connector so this one goes to your motherboard and then you will use your existing hard drive cable for that and then you can use this additional cable to go out from this guy into your hard drive so the chipset on here and you can see that this is like a proprietary looking chipset it just says silverstone on that chip itself so we have no way of knowing what's in there is what does the logic that allows your HDD boost to know whether it should write any particular piece of data to the SSD or the hard drive and where to read it from so basically the HDD boost is a way of treating an SSD kind of like a giant cache it's kind of like Ram is except sort of one tear down so you got your CPU then your CPU cache then your RAM then your SSD and then your hard drive so it's one step faster to get the data off here than it is to get it off of the hard drive that's connected to it so thanks for watching my unboxing of the HDD boost and thank you for everyone who participated in the Easter extravaganza