Crucial Adrenaline Solid State Cache Review.

After a week of daily use, the Crucial Adrenaline made me forget that there was a mechanical drive installed. Starting with the impressive performance that you get, the simple installation of the software and the hardware, and after a week I have found something else that this solution was able to provide, a silent operation. After a week all my frequently used files were cached on the Crucial Adrenaline SSD and after that my old mechanical drive was silent.

The Crucial Adrenaline comes in a very well designed box, and it has all the accessories that you will need. The three year warranty, along with the build quality and the very impressive work that has been done on the firmware are factors that you need to take into consideration.

The last thing, which unfortunately I wasn’t able to test, is the fact that you can use this drive on all kinds of solutions Intel RAID and AHCI, and AHCI with AMD. Most impressive is that fact that Crucial says that the Adrenaline drive will work with the default Microsoft drivers and also on Compatibility/legacy IDE mode, so if for some reason you don’t want to update your hardware, this solution should work for almost everyone.

The only negative that I can see is the low write speed, but that’s something that you won’t notice, unless you benchmark your drive.

Positive

• SATA 6Gbps
• Excellent read performance
• Firmware support so far was excellent
• 3 Years Warranty
• Low price for a SATA 6Gbps
• Easy installation for both software and hardware

Negative

• Sequential write speeds

Conclusion

Finishing the review of the Crucial Adrenaline cache drive I can say that this drive has performed excellently. "The Crucial Adrenaline drive is working in the background and after a few starts it will cache your most frequently used data and give you a true SSD performance without any compromise". I therefore give this drive the "Excellent" and "Editor choice" awards.

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