But I’m sticking with eBoostr that I bought really cheap few weeks ago (Desktop Edition), for the fact that it just gives me more control. Sandisk is using ExpressCache which is made by Condusiv, better known from Diskeeper disk defragmentation software. Most SSD drives that are dedicated to be caching hybrid systems also come with dedicated caching software (for free).
There are also other drives like Corsair Accelerator, but they are also quite a lot more expensive. I got around 16MB/s random read from it which is much faster than any HDD can ever do (which is usually below 1MB/s), but Sandisk’s Read圜ache churns out over 90MB/s random read speed. I was testing it before with high speed memory card, but the results weren’t quite there. Recently, I’ve bought the Sandisk Read圜ache 32GB drive (it was by far the cheapest and had good scores in tests) for this exact purpose. Or be bound to install apps on SSD specifically. The stuff that you use regularly will be cached and you can get ridiculous speeds for any app without sacrificing any space. Why do I think this is a much smarter way of doing it? Because the cache in such hybrid systems works across entire HDD stored data. Either a single unit hybrid drives like the Seagate Momentus XT or a paired hybrid system where you can use your existing HDD and pair it with a small SSD for caching purposes. What kind of benefit is that to anything? To have slightly faster boot, yet 90% of the data remains sluggish slow from HDD only unless you install games or apps on already tiny SSD? I could never understand people buying small SSD’s just to boot Windows and few apps and leave the rest on HDD. It’s no problem getting a 2TB SSD at the moment, but its price is ridiculous. There is no denying that SSD’s are on the move, however, there is still the issue of price and capacity.
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