Crucial Adrenaline Solid State Cache Review

Skyrim Savegame Load

For this test I would start Skrim and load a savegame, recording the time it took from clicking the load button to being in game. This load time went from 9.63 to 6.28 seconds using the cache drive. Keep in mind that because of how the caching software works, general, random load times are probably not going to decrease significantly if at all.

RAW Conversion

I threw this test in to see if having increased storage performance would have any effect on converting a RAW image to JPEG. As you can see, there was virtually no change as expected since the conversion relies more on CPU speed than storage speed.

HD Tune

Hard Drive Only	Adrenaline Installed

HD Tune is a great tool to test the performance of a drive in most cases. But for this situation, I assume the Dataplex software clashes somewhat with the utility. As you can see, with a just a hard drive on the left, performance is both better and also much more stable. As we know from the previous real-world benchmarks, adding the Adrenaline to your system certainly does not slow it down so this will not be held against it.

What we can see though is that access time dropped significantly, which is the effect you notice the most in general use.

3DMark Vantage

Hard Drive Only	Adrenaline Installed

Generally actual gaming performance is unaffected by your storage device, but I thought we would take a look and see if the Adrenaline makes any sort of difference. I just ran the first graphics test to quickly get an idea of any impact it may make and as you can see it did nothing for our fps as expected.

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