Crucial Adrenaline Review: SSD Cache for your Traditional Disk Drive

[Guest]

I have a computer running a dual boot of Windows 7 and XP with two 500 gig drives running in raid 0 via the on board raid. From what I have read after setting up my raid drive It does not gain me much performance. I was wondering two things though. A: Can you use this system in a dual boot like this where it would only affect the windows 7 performance? B: Does this system function in tandem with any raid setups? I know I do not have a typical set up but I do have a lot of older games that I do play now and again on the XP platform just for the fun of it. My setup consists of a asus m3n ht deluxe MB, Amd quad phenom 2, 8 gigs of ddr2 800, Gtx 660 Ti video card. and the before mentioned 500 gig drives.

 

[Guest]

Never mind I got answers A: and B: from crucials website. Nope and Nope.

 

[mados123]

Have checked reviews of the OCZ Synapse solution and also read some in OCZ forums.
There seems to be some problems with the DATAPLEX software if you run Windows update, install new drivers etc and it could depend on how HDD and SSD Cache works together...

So at the moment this SSD Cache solution seems not quite finished yet....

I was having problems with the Dataplex software and Windows Updates (where it would crash and I would need to restore to an earlier image) but that seemed to have been worked out with the latest release. I'm sure happy about that as I had the drive disconnected for a while and wasn't using it due to this issue but now it seems resolved!

 

[mados123]

I was having problems with the Dataplex software and Windows Updates (where it would crash and I would need to restore to an earlier image) but that seemed to have been worked out with the latest release. I'm sure happy about that as I had the drive disconnected for a while and wasn't using it due to this issue but now it seems resolved!

Well, it still seems like it is still an issue with Dataplex version 1.2.0.4. As such, I have disabled Windows Updates altogether for now and will uninstall/reinstall around the manual updates in the future. I have been creating system images every night so it was a big deal but definitely a nuisance.