Comments on: Crucial M4 Adrenaline 50GB Cache SSD Review – Watch Your Hard Drive Perform Like an SSD

By: Les@TheSSDReview

Les@TheSSDReview — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:47:00 +0000

In reply to XacTactX. I am going to suggest not to do the SSD optimizations as the background of these was made through use of a primary recognizable drive, unlike the Adrenaline and other cached designs. Remember, your primary drive is still a hard drive, although it is cached.

By: XacTactX

XacTactX — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:01:00 +0000

In reply to XacTactX.

And my question is, if I have a caching SSD such as the Synapse or the Adrenaline, should I do the SSD optimizations? I’m talking about the articles that you guys have in the ‘beginner’ section that tell you to change Windows 7 settings for your SSD.

Thank you and take care.

By: XacTactX

XacTactX — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:59:00 +0000

In reply to Les@TheSSDReview. Hi there Mr. Tokar. I'd like to thank you for two things, and I also have a question. One, thank you for all the reviews you've done, knowledge is power and this site has helped me tremendously with SSDs. Second, thanks for writing about your subjective experience with SRT. I have seen benchmark comparisons in the past but never had someone explain that Dataplex works better than SRT in the real world.

By: Les@TheSSDReview

Les@TheSSDReview — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:14:00 +0000

In reply to Rbarkley. Weeks without rebooting? I am speaking of the typical user and sorry to hear your issues with Mac. Glad you like the site otherwise!

By: Rbarkley

Rbarkley — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:39:00 +0000

Les, I wish you’d started out your review by saying this only works with Win 7. I’m a Mac guy and was really disappointed to find it’s not available for the Mac. Also, reading the Amazon reviews, they are pretty much 5 or 1 star. The one stars are from those whose computers weren’t compatible and their HDs were trashed. Nvelo seem to be fixing the problems but it will probably be a while before all the bugs are out. The advice, as always, is to back up your whole system (clone it) so you can be up and running quickly if you are one of the unlucky ones.

Also, I want to thank for all the info and reviews here. Based on your review I bought an Intel 520/240GB SSD for my MacBook Pro and couldn’t be happier.

I also have to ask, what is all this rebooting about? Five times per day average?! As a Mac guy, I’ve gone weeks without rebooting.