Crucial Adrenaline SSD Series SATA600

Overview

Reviews

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.

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 10 expert reviews

Excellent:

6
Good:

3
Average:

1
Bad:

0

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Last revision on January 19, 2014

Reviewers Liked

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

Reviewers Didn't Like

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

Expert reviews and ratings

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...

By TechSpot on March 26, 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...

By TechRadar on June 03, 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...

By VR-Zone on June 02, 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...

By MyCE on May 17, 2012

100

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

By Expert Reviews on May 07, 2012

Review: Crucial Adrenaline SSD Cache (50GB)by Parm Mann on 30 April 2012, 14:00 Tags: Crucial Technology (NASDAQ:MU) Quick Link: HEXUS.net/qabfsj Add to My Vault: Here at HEXUS we get inundated with people asking one particular question; 'which...

By HEXUS.net on April 30, 2012

The Adrenaline isn't the first time we have seen a Marvell based SSD from Crucial, or in fact Dataplex software. We saw versions of both when they were just hitting the market and back then we were impressed by the performance and features offered...

By HardwareHeaven on April 11, 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...

By CDRinfo on September 20, 2012

When we look at the latest storage technology – solid state drives, there is one factor that, for some, puts them right off the idea altogether. Not everyone out there there wants a multitude of drives in their system in order to get the balance...

By eTeknix on July 05, 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...

By BCCHardware on June 29, 2012

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