Frankestein SSD-like storage on the cheap with the HDDBOOST.

Want a gadget to nominate in the “gadget/invention of the year” award? Look no further than the HDDBOOST. It’s a super simple concept: a small box that has SATA connections for SSD and traditional spinning drives. The beauty of it is that the SSD you plug in (32GB recommended) acts as a big buffer to the slower, spinning hard drive, allowing you to only access the old giant when you need to directly access files.

The pro’s are of course added system speed in general computing tasks thanks to the SSD but at a more affordable price thanks to cheap spinning hard drive storage. The cons are the validity of the 150% speed increase claim seeing as there isn’t any software based optimization. It’s nothing more than an automatic copy of the most used files. Is 150% really obtainable? The other “aw bummer” moment is the Japan only availability for the time being.

Look on the bright side though, it’s only $55 so what do you have to lose?

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