Installation Process

The Adrenaline tin only be used equally SSD cache for the primary boot drive as the Dataplex software volition just select C:\ equally the primary storage drive, this makes sense for the most part and was also the case when testing the RevoDrive Hybrid last year.

The drive doesn't require whatever special drivers as information technology uses the SATA interface. Furthermore, the Adrenaline tin can exist installed at any point and can therefore be fitted to any reckoner without the need to reinstall Windows.

You might remember some of the nuissances we went through when using the Dataplex software the first time we touched it, but here's a reminder. Undoubtedly the software is a central component to enable the caching characteristic and the Adrenaline ships with a ane-time employ product key that volition be rendered invalid if any major hardware changes occur.

Instructions indicate that if you uninstall the software earlier making whatsoever hardware changes and and so reinstall later on, this will avoid the primal invalidation. Yet we tried this to the alphabetic character, and after uninstalling the software we and then attempting to re-install on some other organisation we could not get past the central activation screen as nosotros were hit with a license in employ error.

Even worse, the system we uninstalled the software from and removed the Adrenaline become corrupted. Upon kick up we were hit with the "Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart" error message as the partition had been damaged.

On a brighter notation when we reviewed the RevoDrive Hybrid we were told that the Dataplex software monitors network controllers, memory configurations, operating arrangement, chief boot bulldoze, CPU and BIOS for any changes. If two or more of these components are changed the key becomes inactive and the user is forced to contact the manufactures tech back up department for a manual reset.

Before benchmarking the OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid, nosotros decided to exam how fussy the software was regarding hardware changes. RAM is one of the most commonly upgraded components in my computer, then nosotros swapped out a pair of 2GB sticks for ii 4GB sticks and so disabled 1 network controller and enabled another.

Having booted back into Windows everything seemed fine, but after nearly ten minutes a popup message said the license was in use past another computer. We uninstalled the Dataplex software and attempted to reinstall information technology later on a mandatory reset.

However, because we didn't uninstall Dataplex before the hardware changes, we couldn't reinstall the software using the same key. Afterwards acquiring a new key from OCZ, nosotros were able to reinstall the Dataplex program and continue benchmarking. We were again hitting with the "license is in use by another computer" mistake after running a number of Windows vii updates.

This was a nightmare and it was 1 of the contributing factors for why nosotros disliked the RevoDrive Hybrid. Then does the Adrenaline endure the same fate? We had expected that it would give it uses the same Dataplex software. Still it seems NVELO might take made some changes to the security of the Dataplex software we constitute the Crucial Adrenaline much more forgiving.

In fact we were able to update the system BIOS, change video cards, retentivity and processors without tripping the Dataplex security measures. At that place has been more than than half a dozen updates made to the software since we outset tested it and so we wonder if NVELO has made changes here or were we merely lucky? Based on previous experiences nosotros doubtable they have lessened the security measures.

Overall, the installation process is very like shooting fish in a barrel and once installed, the Dataplex software need never exist opened again -- unless you wish to make whatsoever serious hardware changes, of grade.