Introduction
The Crucial Adrenaline is Crucial’s new SSD cache system, designed to speed up your hard drive! It takes a 50GB M4 SSD and their Dataplex software and caches all of your often used files, such as the ones required for Windows boot up and puts them on the SSD: giving you the space of a hard drive and the speed of solid state.
Perfect combination at a competitive price? Let’s find out.
Box and Bundle
The Crucial Adrenaline comes in an attractive Blue box which has two drawers on the right side with the SSD and Kit inside.
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The back of the box has support information and also explains what’s included.
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Taking a look at the kit supplied, we have a standard SATA cable with clips on both ends, Warranty book and 2.5” to 3.5” hard drive adaptor.
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With the SSD removed from the over draw we get the key to download and activate the Dataplex software.
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The sticker is actually on correctly. Notice the right angle SATA cable they provide. In some OEM cases there is very little room between drive bays – the right angle in the usually placement may interfer. Flipping the drive over gives you much greater chance to not run into any issues. Have installed a few and with OEM PCs this tends to happen.