Silver PriceGrabber
Excellent Customer Service Award
Crucial.com has been awarded a Silver PriceGrabber Excellent Customer Service Award for Q3 2012 - this award is earned only by retailers who have exceeded 3,000 user reviews while maintaining a minimum 4.4 star rating.This is indicative of a higher level of customer service and attentiveness to customer needs.

 

2012 — Shopzilla®
Circle of Excellence Award
The Circle of Excellence recognises those online retailers within the Shopzilla Research network who have demonstrated outstanding performance, as rated by their customers, throughout a one year period. In 2012, over 2,000 online merchants in the UK were considered for an award. Winners consistently obtained feedback from their customers throughout the award year period and received the highest ratings. The ratings are from the direct feedback, collected at the point-of-sale and after delivery of goods, from customers concerning seven key satisfaction metrics:

1. Overall satisfaction at the point-of-sale
2. Product selection at the point-of-sale
3. Ease of finding products on the website
4. Intent to buy from the same retailer again, collected after the order is received
5. Product met expectations, collected after the order is received
6. On-time delivery of the order
7. Customer support assistance

 

2009 — BizRate®
Circle of Excellence Platinum Awards
The Circle of Excellence recognises those online retailers within the BizRate Research network who have demonstrated outstanding performance, as rated by their customers, throughout a one year period. In 2009, over 2,000 online merchants in the UK were considered for an award. Winners consistently obtained feedback from their customers throughout the award year period and received the highest ratings. The ratings are from the direct feedback, collected at the point-of-sale and after delivery of goods, from customers concerning seven key satisfaction metrics:

1. Overall Satisfaction at the point-of-sale
2. Product Selection at the point-of-sale
3. Ease of Finding Products on the website
4. Intent to buy from the same retailer again, collected after the order is received
5. Product Met Expectations, collected after the order is received
6. On-time Delivery of the order
7. Customer Support assistance

 

February 2013 — Computer Shopper
Crucial Adrenaline
Best Buy Award
"This clever SSD cache works alongside your existing hard disk, so you get the speed boost of an SSD with the full capacity of a mechanical hard disk. It's a brilliant upgrade for any PC." -- February Issue 2013, p.71

 

September 2012 — Expert Reviews
256GB Crucial v4 SSD
4 Stars
"Crucial's V4 is a compelling piece of kit ... If you can’t afford a motherboard upgrade and all the costs and hassle that entails, but you still want to experience solid-state speed, this is a fine option." Full review

 

June 2012 — Expert Reviews
Crucial m4 SSD
Budget Buy Award
"A middling performer that’s made into a tempting buy thanks to an extremely low price and good value throughout." Full review

 

June 2012 — XSReviews
Crucial Adrenaline SSC
9/10 Scoring
"There are a couple of these SSD cache systems on the market now and the Crucial is one of the cheapest and easy to setup systems. Crucial are also one of the most reliable drive makers around which is a real bonus." Full review

 

June 2012 — Computer Shopper
Crucial Adrenaline SSC
Best Buy Award
"Fast and easy to set up, it’s a relatively cheap route to an SSD-style performance boost." -- June Issue 2012, p.22

 

May 2012 — Custom PC
Crucial m4 SSDs
Custom PC Approved Award/Custom PC Premium Grade Award
"We’ve been fans of the Crucial m4 range for a long time, and this test has again proved them to be fast, well-rounded and great value drives." -- 512GB and 128GB m4s win Custom PC Approved Awards and the 256GB Crucial m4 wins the Custom PC Premium Grade Award. Custom PC (May Issue) 2012

 

May 2012 — MyCE.com
Crucial Adrenaline Solid State Cache
Editor's Choice/Editor Rating Excellent Awards
"Finishing the review of the Crucial Adrenaline cache drive I can say that this drive has performed excellently. "The Crucial Adrenaline drive is working in the background and after a few starts it will cache your most frequently used data and give you a true SSD performance without any compromise". I therefore give this drive the "Excellent" and "Editor choice" awards." Full review

 

April 2012 — Hardware Heaven
Crucial Adrenaline SSC
Recommended Award
"One of the manufacturers which have impressed us most in recent times with their SSDs is Crucial…. The Adrenaline isn't the first time we have seen a Marvell based SSD from Crucial, or in fact Dataplex software. We saw versions of both when they were just hitting the market and back then we were impressed by the performance and features offered by both. This hasn't changed with this product which combines the two. ... A quick and simple way to boost the performance of a new or existing build." Full review

 

April 2012 — HEXUS.net
Crucial Adrenaline SSC
HEXUS Recommended Award
"... you never quite know how well the cache will respond, but in our time with the Crucial Adrenaline, we've been suitably impressed ...

Bottom line: We can't think of a good reason for a hard-disk-based Windows 7 PC not to have a solid-state cache. Its whole purpose is to provide a seamless upgrade without upsetting the hard-disk applecart, and it succeeds." Full review

 

March 2012 — rbmods
Crucial 128GB m4 SSD
Recommended Award
"If you want the fastest, go with the Crucial drive, since it has performed the best without any issues. The Crucial M4 gets our recommendations!" Full review

 

March 2012 — Micro Mart
Crucial Adrenaline SSC
8/10 Scoring
"The SSD that delivers some real performance benefits to your hard drive." -- Micro Mart (Issue 1202), p. 53

 

January 2012 — Micro Mart
Crucial m4 SSD
Editor’s Choice Award
"Crucial's m4 offers a brilliant mix of performance and value. The new firmware greatly improves the product's performance and allows it to take on and beat even the quickest SandForce drives in real world benchmarks. The differences between the top four drives in this test are extremely slight, but there's no escaping the cost per gigabyte advantage that this drive offers. Crucial has done just enough to come away with top honours." -- Issue 1190, January 2012

 

November 2011 — Overclockers.com
Crucial 256GB m4 SSD
Overclockers Approved Award
"While the M4 doesn’t compete with the OCZ Vertex 3 in terms of write speed, its read performance is on par. Given the reliability issues that some drives built around SandForce controllers are experiencing, the M4 looks like a more robust alternative that still delivers excellent performance. It lives up to, and in some cases exceeds, the claimed read and write speeds. In addition, the quite attractive pricing in the US makes this one to consider carefully when SSD-shopping. While other sizes are also available, remember that performance is not necessarily the same, and would be expected to be slightly lower for the smaller drives. For these reasons, I’m happy to label this as 'Overclockers Approved' ". Full review

 

November 2011 — eteknix.com
Crucial 128GB m4 SSD
Bang For Buck Award
"The m4 is definitely a rival to the abundance of SandForce driven SSDs on the market, that are tried and tested, and we hope that by looking at the 128GB model, it gives a clear understanding of why you don’t need to spend the extra money to get the same results, in certain circumstances, but as with any purchase, it’s all down to personal preference and what’s the right product for you." Full review

 

August 2011 — CDRInfo.com
Crucial m4 SSD
CDRInfo Best Buy Award
"Typical desktop/notebook users will appreciate the m4 as it will give them the performance quoted by Crucial plus generous capacities at a very attractive price." Full review

 

August 2011 — Overclock3d.net
Crucial 128GB m4 SSD
Overclock3d.net Silver Award
"The consistency in all of our tests was exemplary with no weak links at all. The uniformity of the graphs produced by all of our test applications mirror the AIDA64 ones, in both read and write formats ... Even still, the consistency of the Crucial M4 coupled to the very attractive price make it a deserving winner of our OC3D Silver Award!." Full review

 

July 2011 — pcadvisor.co.uk
Crucial 256GB m4 SSD
PC Advisor Gold Award
"From the lab tests, the Crucial M4 displays clear improvements over the Crucial C300 – in most key respects. The headline-grabbing speeds are indisputably superior, up to 438MB/s read speeds in our tests and 281MB/s when writing. Small file transfer characteristics are less eye-catching but absolutely key to smooth PC operation. And here we saw improved write speeds, but slightly reduced reads. In the context of either of the Crucials' great small file performance though, we haven't seen any SSD with the Crucial M4's terrific sequential speeds, tempered with such consummate small-file transfer juggling and high IOPS. This Crucial M4 SSD easily takes the crown as best SSD we've seen and comes highly recommended – especially given its price drop from the C300 of last year." Full review

 

July 2011 — 3dprofessor.org
Crucial m4 SSD
Editors Recommendation Award
"Finally; the day belongs to Crucial and their new m4 series Solid State Drive. This has taken us by surprise with it's phenomenal burst read speeds, and whilst like all the other SSD's of this capacity demands a premium, its a premium worth paying to gain the ultimate in read performance." Full review

 

July Issue 094, p.45 — Custom PC
Crucial m4 SSD
CUSTOM PC — Premium Grade Award
"As the m4 range will be replacing the C300 drives in Crucial's SSD line-up, it remains a strong choice for a new SSD by delivering superb sequential speeds, and solid random performance and TRIM execution."

 

June 2011 — HEXUS.net
Crucial m4 SSD
HEXUS Recommended Award
"Crucial hasn't reinvented the wheel, but by tweaking a tried-and-trusted controller it has produced an excellent SSD that's both faster and cheaper than last year's model. At this price, the m4 SSD is well worthy of consideration for any SATA 6Gbps system." Full review

 

March 2011 — HardwareHeaven.com
Crucial m4 SSD
Gold Award
"An evolution of an architecture which has proven its high performance, reliability and compatibility the m4 stretches Crucial's performance lead over SATA 2 drives and ensures they are competitive with the latest SATA 3 models." Full review

 

April 2011 — pcpro.co.uk
Crucial m4 SSD
PC Pro Recommended Award
"…if you're looking for an affordable SATA 6Gbit/sec model with cutting-edge transfer speeds, Crucial's M4 is a high-performance hit." Full review

 

April 2011 Issue 189 - p.84 — PC Advisor
Crucial RealSSDC300 256GB
"This exceptional solid-state disk (SSD) proves that even the latest technology comes in several implementations. The Crucial RealSSD C300 supports the 6 gigabit per second (Gbps) data protocol and has a 256MB cache. If you can stretch to its £528 cost, this blisteringly fast SSD will reap dividends in time saved."

 

January 2013 — Hardwareheaven.com
Crucial Ballistix Sport VLP
Recommended Award and Overall 9/10 Score
"In terms of value the VLP sticks are priced competitively and we get Crucial’s usual lifetime warranty... so it’s good news all round really…..A nice alternative to some larger modules and a perfect purchase for those concerned by module height, available space or even energy use."

 

April 2012 — Micro Mart
Crucial Ballistix Elite PC3-14900 8GB Kit
8/10 Scoring
"Crucial maintains its reputation for high-quality memory." -- Issue 1204, April 2012, p.87

 

February 2012 — Expert Reviews
Crucial BL2KIT25664BA160A
Best Buy Award
"Great performance and low price makes this 4GB memory kit a Best Buy." Full review

 

January 2012 — PCGamesware.co.uk
Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer (8GB)
Silver Award
"But really the main reason for looking at the Tactical Tracers for most of us will be the addition of the LED lighting. Here Crucial has got the competition licked, mainly because to my knowledge there is no competition! I suppose I have to admit to being a fan of the LED, but if you’re not then this RAM is probably not for you. If you are, on the other hand, then it really doesn’t get much better than this ... " Full review

 

July 2011 — HardwareHeaven.com
Crucial Ballistix DDR3 PC3-16000 - BL2CP51264FN2001CEU
Hardwareheaven Recommended Award
"Crucial have a set of sticks which have high performance, especially in gaming, and at the same time run very cool." Full review

 

May 2011, Issue 094 p.72 — Custom PC
Crucial Ballistix Tracer - DDR3
CUSTOM PC — Custom Kit Award
"Crucial Ballistix Tracer range of DDR3 memory with LEDs built into each module's heatspreader is a great, if far from subtle, way of adding lighting to your PC....It's a great utility and the LEDs are a fine alternative to lighting your case with cadholes.

 

January 2011 — 3dprofessor.org
Crucial Ballistix DDR3 PC3-17000 (2133MHz)
Editor's Choice Award
"However, one must take into due consideration the helping hand within the systems I/O from Crucial's supply of its superfast C300 SSD and the almighty new Crucial Ballistix, DDR3 PC3-17000. We took the system to the maximum at stock and ran it without falter for 10 days flat out. Therefore to conclude this sector; kudos and a hands down winner for all supplying manufacturers concerned." Full review

 

January 2011 — eTeknix
Crucial Ballistix Smart Tracer 1600MHz DDR3 4GB Kit
Gold Award
"Crucial have done it again by releasing a product that ticks almost every box. This memory gives something unique to the design by offering up the patented Ballistix heatspreaders and Tracer LED features, but this time with an improvement as the functionality has been extended to give more flexibility to the user with the ability to change certain aspects of the Tracer features including colour, patterns and so forth. Performance wise saw a massive hike in speed with very little effort, whilst users wanting even more can always increase other aspects to get the very best results, and we believe that 2000MHz could be seen from these modules under the right conditions, with the right timings and suitable voltage". Full review

February 2012 — rigmods
Crucial Ballistix Active Cooling Fan Review
Editor’s Choice Award
"If you own a Crucial Ballistix ram kit and want the perfect combo then this is for you, I’m happy to recommend it all day long... Now I can’t speak for the quality of some ram coolers on the market but I do own a Corsair Dominator cooler and have used it for two years. This cooler does a better job in cooling, noise and aesthetics. The plating is shiny; the fans are quiet, all in all a job well done!" Full review

 

January 2011 — 3dprofessor.org
Ballistix Active Cooling Fan
Editor's Choice Award
"Our results show an average of 8-10C drop in temparature with the Ballistix Cooler in place which is an impressive performance. Therefore as a final point of note when spending huge sums of monies on such expensive DIMMS - possibly even a new system build for an extra £20.00; you can for that minor outlay increase the longevity of your precious memory modules and good system stability. The figures speak clearly for themselves." Full review