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Crucial Adrenaline Solid State Cache Review

Throughout the testing of an SSD, there are many aspects to consider including the hardware that is used in conjunction. If testing a SATA III based drive, we need to make sure that our motherboard conforms to the same standards so that no discrepancies can arise. We will point out that due to capacity restrictions of 2TB with the Adrenaline kit, although the drive used is a 3TB drive, we’ve allocated a 2TB partition for the Windows install and the purpose of testing this kit.

Test system:

Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z
Intel Core i7 3770k
Corsair Vengeance 1866MHz 16GB
Gigabyte GTX 580 SOC
Antec Kuhler 920
Corsair HX1050W
Crucial Adrenaline SSD Cache
Seagate Barracuda 3TB
3 x AOC E2795VH

We would like to thank AOC, Asus, Corsair, Kingston and Lian Li for supplying us with our test system components.

Many different software applications are also used to gain the broadest spectrum of results, which allows for the fairest testing possible.

Software used:

AS SSD
ATTO
CrystalDiskMark
PCMark 7
PCMark Vantage
HD Tach

For each of the tests, both the hard drive and the SSD portions of the drive were tested separately in their own rights to show their relative performance. Following this the Dataplex software was installed to show the combined performance. To show the caching software is working, HD Tach was used to measure the drives performance after the first cached boot and then after the 3rd boot where the drive is getting to its optimum cached speed. In each of the tests we will show the hard drives results, followed by the SSD then the combined result once the caching is enabled.

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