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Crucial Adrenaline SSD Series SATA600

The Crucial Adrenaline is a cache solution meant to work along your existing disk drive, using a 50GB SSD to act as solid state flash-based cache for your larger primary hard drive.

Based on 9 reviews

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Pros

Makes your PC noticeably faster.
Combines mechanical capacity with solid state speed.
Simple installation requires little tech know-how.
Bundle includes 3.5 in bracket and SATA cable.

Cons

Only compatible with Windows 7.
Rarely as quick as a standalone SSD.

By TechSpot on March 26, 2012

We are glad to report the Crucial Adrenaline is a much better product. At a third of the price, you get a more flexible option that's also a fair bit faster when paired with a quality hard drive...

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By CDRinfo on September 20, 2012

We have in our labs an SSD developed by Crucial, designed for accelerating your PC by taking advantage the fast read and write features of flash memory. Designed to work in conjunction with your standard hard disk drives (HDDs), the Crucial Adrenaline...

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By BCCHardware on June 29, 2012

The concept behind the Crucial Adrenaline drive is great, install the drive and the software, then sit back and watch the performance increase as the Crucial Adrenaline monitors which files and programs you use most and moves then onto the Adrenaline...

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By XSReviews on June 18, 2012

The Crucial Adrenaline completely lives up to what Crucial has said about it, in my testing it boosted random access times on a HDD by ten times and Windows booted in under half the time it would have taken without the SSD cache. Installation was...

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By TechRadar on June 03, 2012

The world and its wife, and possibly their dog too, knows that if you want blistering storage drive performance then solid-state is the way to go, and if you want capacity then the good old clanky mechanical hard drive is your friend. Wouldn't it be...

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By VR-Zone on June 02, 2012

Crucial, the renowned European manufacturer of memory modules, was amongst first companies to have released a commercial SSD. The firm is a subsidiary company of Micron, the microchip developer and manufacturer. Both the company and the technology...

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By hardCOREware on May 28, 2012

s We already know that an SSD is possibly the most significant hardware upgrade you can make on a system. I mentioned on Twitter while setting up for this review that after using SSDs in all our test systems and my personal rig, going back to a...

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By MyCE on May 17, 2012

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...

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By Techworld on May 10, 2012

The Adrenaline drive doesn't work in a vacuum. Any gains you might see will depend upon the overall speed of your computer, the speed of your disk interface and the type of applications you run. However, even a 10% to 20% improvement, given the...

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By Expert Reviews on May 07, 2012

Reasonably fast and easy to set up, it’s a relatively cheap route to an SSD-style performance boost...

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