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[Drdeath]

Desktop SSD & HDD Upgrade Kits - Products



The Velocity Solo is the easiest way to add the speed of Solid State and
SATA III to your desktop
Upgrade your system to the latest SATA III interface (6Gbs) and add a high speed SSD to boost the performance to the max.

Easy to install, the Velocity Solo is an industry standard PCIe 2.0 card designed to add a 2.5” Solid State Drive (SSD) via a super fast SATA III connection. With data transfer rates of 6Gbs, SATA III is twice as fast as SATA II and takes full advantage of the latest SSD. The Velocity Solo uses a Marvel 9125 SATA 6G AHCI Raid controller, delivering speeds up to 400MB/s Read and 220MB/s Write.* The Solo also provides an additional SATA III data connection that can be used to connect to another SSD or HDD to provide unparalleled capacity and performance.

Takes just minutes to install

Simply connect your Solid State Drive to the Velocity Solo SATA III connector and slide into an available PCIe slot in your desktop. Once installed, download and run Apricorn’s EZ Gig cloning software and your upgrade is complete. For additional capacity use the auxiliary SATA III connector for a super fast connection to an additional hard drive or solid state drive.

Ideal for High Performance Applications and Improving Gaming Performance

Running your OS and applications on an SSD provides a measureable performance increase, but the Velocity Solo is also the perfect upgrade for improving gaming performance.

SSDs Improve Game Performance - As games become too large for their assets to be fully cached on modern graphics cards and main memory, the addition of an SSD for faster disk access during game play results in less in-game pauses and a smoother playing experience. Games are also faster to load and save when using an SSD.

Blending Performance and Capacity – Apricorn’s EZ Gig Cloning Software with Data Select makes it easy

The Solo is bundled with Apricorn’s EZ Gig Cloning software with Data Select. Data Select provides a simple method to deselect data folders from the cloning process which is helpful when migrating from a large HDD to a smaller SSD and perfect for creating a Boot Disk. This gives you the option to run your OS and applications from a fast, smaller SSD boot drive, while keeping your documents and media files on your original hard drive.

EZ Gig enables you to clone your hard drive in just three simple steps

Step 1

Select your Source drive

This is usually your computer’s internal drive and is denoted by the prefix IDE

Step 2

Select your Destination drive

This is your external drive connected to your computer by Apricorn’s Velocity Solo

Optional

Data Select tool

Select files you wish to exclude from the clone, such as photos, videos, music or documents. This is helpful when migrating from a large HDD to a smaller SSD or when creating a Boot Disk.

Step 3

Press the "Start Clone" button

EZ Gig will clone everything to the SSD drive on the Velocity Solo. It really is that simple

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* Many things influence SSD performance, including the testing application, operating system, background process, anti-virus applications, etc. For a more comprehensive list of things effecting SSD performance read this article from TheSSDReview.
http://thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/optimization-guides/the-ssd-optimization-guide

[Doctor_Death]

I'll ask for a sample

[PoLoMoTo]

Thats a pretty great idea, although it would never reach Sata 3's 6Gb/s because of the PCIE bottleneck you'd never be able to tell the difference, it's still better than an old fashioned HDD.

[Bob2701]

Very interesting...

[Drdeath]

Thats a pretty great idea, although it would never reach Sata 3's 6Gb/s because of the PCIE bottleneck you'd never be able to tell the difference, it's still better than an old fashioned HDD.

???? Wha?

[Plan.B]

The prices seem reasonable. I'll watch for the review. Definitely interested.

[PoLoMoTo]

???? Wha?

? PCIE 2.0 does 5 Gb/s and Sata 3 is 6Gb/s so obviously its going to be a slight bottleneck but I doubt anything yet can get to that 5Gb/s now, let alone the 6Gb/s

[Drdeath]

? PCIE 2.0 does 5 Gb/s and Sata 3 is 6Gb/s so obviously its going to be a slight bottleneck but I doubt anything yet can get to that 5Gb/s now, let alone the 6Gb/s

PoLo, SSD's do not use all the 6G of bandwidth from sata ports. There is NO bottleneck. You obviously need to learn more. There are more lanes on the PCIe slots BTW. The performance is actually better on the PCIe slots(usually 48) cause the lanes will not be saturated.

[Solara2xb]

This does look interesting!!
Can't wait to see the review

[Deton]

This is what I see it, this adapter is only good if you use it with old generation SSD.

The Velocity Solo uses a Marvel 9125 SATA 6G AHCI Raid controller, delivering speeds up to 400MB/s Read and 220MB/s Write.* The Solo also provides an additional SATA III data connection that can be used to connect to another SSD or HDD to provide unparalleled capacity and performance.

the new SATAIII SSD can read up to 500+Mb on standard SATA port. The question here is how much performance gain if you use this adapter with the new generation SSD to justify the cost for the upgrading

[Drdeath]

This is what I see it, this adapter is only good if you use it with old generation SSD.


the new SATAIII SSD can read up to 500+Mb on standard SATA port. The question here is how much performance gain if you use this adapter with the new generation SSD to justify the cost for the upgrading

Thats what I was originally thinking. By what the company says, I do not think it will be much more than using a sata port thus OCZ revo drives seriously are the only way to go with a PCIE Sata drive. Revo I's get 750Mb/s read/write/copy and the revo X 2 gets like 1500MB/s speeds.

I think the more interesting benchmarks would be 4K and 4KQ32 speeds when the lanes get saturated.

[Solara2xb]

This would be a good device for someone that doesn't have enough Sata ports on there Mobo and wanted to add 1 or 2 more drives..

[PoLoMoTo]

PoLo, SSD's do not use all the 6G of bandwidth from sata ports. There is NO bottleneck. You obviously need to learn more. There are more lanes on the PCIe slots BTW. The performance is actually better on the PCIe slots(usually 48) cause the lanes will not be saturated.

You obviously need to read more....

[Drdeath]

You obviously need to read more....

Umm.... no..... I test SSD's in motherboard reviews in sata III 6G and USB 3.0 external....... The bandwidth is never fully used in Sata III. Anything else?

[PoLoMoTo]

Umm.... no..... I test SSD's in motherboard reviews in sata III 6G and USB 3.0 external....... The bandwidth is never fully used in Sata III. Anything else?

Exactly, learn how to read...

[Doctor_Death]

I asked for the Solo X2 Extreme version, if were going to do it, we might as well do it right. I also told them that we could ran a comparison against PCI-e 480GB drive from OWC,
but to be fair we have to run two 240GB drives in the Solo X2 extreme