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The Crucial m4 SSD
Award-winning quality. Award-winning performance.The award-winning Crucial m4 SSD delivers powerful performance gains for SATA 6Gb/s systems. Designed to empower your system, the Crucial m4 SSD offers faster application load times, faster boot times, and increased durability compared to a traditional hard drive. The results speak for themselves: blazing-fast sequential read speeds of up to 500 MB/s for any file type.
Cutting-edge technology. Quality component testing. Built with advanced controller technology, Micron proprietary firmware and high-speed synchronous MLC NAND, the Crucial m4 SSD is engineered to deliver consistent, blazing-fast SSD performance. From the extensive research and development that led to its ultimate design, to the hours of testing and validation spent on each NAND component, to rigorous compatibility testing in the Crucial Performance Labs to ensure component functionality, the Crucial m4 SSD is built to last.
Consistently fast speeds. No exceptions and no fine print. There's a reason the Crucial m4 SSD has garnered numerous international awards since its launch, it does what its supposed to do. No matter what kind of files you're working with on a Crucial SSD, you'll experience high speeds with no drop in performance.
Unlike other SSDs on the market, Crucial SSDs treat all files the same, regardless of whether they're compressed or uncompressed. This is important because the files most people use everyday videos, mp3s, advanced graphics files and zip files - are compressed files and thus unable to be compressed any further. While many SSDs on the market achieve faster speeds by using file compression, many of the most common file types cant be compressed, resulting in SSDs that often deliver drastically slower speeds than originally advertised. With the advanced technology of a Crucial SSD, however, you'll never have this problem!
Crucial quality you can depend on. Crucial is a trusted name when it comes to SSDs, and that's no coincidence. As a brand of Micron, one of the worlds leading manufacturers of SSDs, we work with our engineers to design, refine, and support our drives. With over 15 years of experience in the memory industry, NAND component testing, and the ongoing development of advanced technology, we continue to innovate without sacrificing what has made us great: high-quality upgrades and outstanding customer service.
Crucial SSDs. Performance you can trust.
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Crucial Adrenaline enables your Windows 7-based PC to start up twice as fast and boosts performance of your hard drive by up to 8 times. Comprising a 50GB Crucial m4 SSD, a 3.5" adapter bracket, and Dataplex software, Crucial Adrenaline intelligently places, or "caches", the most frequently needed files (active data) on the SSD and keeps the less frequently used files (inactive data) on the hard drive. Fully automated, the software runs in the background and requires no user management. A simple upgrade that allows you to keep your existing hard, and thus eliminating the need to transfer files & programs, Crucial Adrenaline offers the best of both worlds: SSD-like performance and the capacity of your hard drive at an affordable cost. Crucial Adrenaline enables your Windows 7-based PC to start up twice as fast and boosts performance of your hard drive by up to 8 times.1 Comprising a 50GB Crucial m4 SSD, a 3.5" adapter bracket, and Dataplex software, Crucial Adrenaline intelligently places, or "caches", the most frequently needed files (active data) on the SSD and keeps the less frequently used files (inactive data) on the hard drive. Fully automated, the software runs in the background and requires no user management. A simple upgrade that allows you to keep your existing hard, and thus eliminating the need to transfer files & programs, Crucial Adrenaline offers the best of both worlds: SSD-like performance and the capacity of your hard drive at an affordable cost. Crucial Adrenaline enables your Windows 7-based PC to start up twice as fast and boosts performance of your hard drive by up to 8 times.1
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
I became a total SSD fanboy after installing a Crucial m4 256 GB SSD in my laptop, but that upgrade is impractical for my desktop computer. The Crucial Adrenaline 50 GB SSD cache made a great cost-effective compromise. It gave me most of the benefits of a SSD while keeping my original 1.5 TB hard drive. I'm using a fairly new Win 7 64-bit i7 desktop with 16 GB of RAM; I suspect someone with an older machine will see huge performance gains.
Since I'm a photojournalist, speed increases were key:
1. Boot time to the first Windows musical tone is now 32 seconds. (Used to take 45 seconds.) UPDATE DAY 3: Today I discovered the boot sequence is optimized and much faster. Overall loading used to take 2:18 (monitor calibration software and WiFi were last to load). Now WiFi is available at the 45 second mark and everything finishes loading in 1:16 minutes. Nice tweak!
2. Photoshop CS6 loads in two (usually two!) to eight seconds. (Used to take 10-19 seconds!)
3. CS6 takes 4 seconds to convert a massive 21 megapixel RAW file to jpeg. (Used to take 6.5 seconds).
4. Most other programs have experienced similar speed increases, although my Windows Experience Index remains unchanged. Programs like Open Office are essentially instantaneous.
5. My computer's overall power consumption is identical before and after installation. No increase in case temperatures.
Installation was easy. The Adrenaline comes with a bracket allowing placement right under the existing hard drive. Crucial includes the SATA cord to connect to the motherboard, but I had to buy a splitter to get an extra SATA power connector. (My computer suffers from a curious lack of power connectors.) No biggie; it cost two bucks. NOTE: I don't even know, or care, what SATA means, but I figured out the connectors with no problem.
I turned on the computer, registered the license key, downloaded and installed the Dataplex software. Reboot, and it was good to go! The whole process took under an hour.
I am concerned after reading some posts from people who lose their hard drive when booting up the next day. If I ever have a problem, I'll scream bloody murder and post an immediate update. But right now, five stars!
UPDATE 2: I've been using this for three months now. Everything is running smooth as silk.
UPDATE 3: After several months of use, I suddenly got all kinds of system glitches after a big Windows update. It was serious enough that I had to do a full system restore and erase the original Dataplex software. Everything worked fine after the restore, but I just could not STAND how slow my powerful i7 machine seemed without this SSD! I reinstalled the Dataplex software and everything has been working smoothly for over a month now. I do advise making a full system backup "just in case," but there is just no way I want to use my computer without this SSD!
Since I'm a photojournalist, speed increases were key:
1. Boot time to the first Windows musical tone is now 32 seconds. (Used to take 45 seconds.) UPDATE DAY 3: Today I discovered the boot sequence is optimized and much faster. Overall loading used to take 2:18 (monitor calibration software and WiFi were last to load). Now WiFi is available at the 45 second mark and everything finishes loading in 1:16 minutes. Nice tweak!
2. Photoshop CS6 loads in two (usually two!) to eight seconds. (Used to take 10-19 seconds!)
3. CS6 takes 4 seconds to convert a massive 21 megapixel RAW file to jpeg. (Used to take 6.5 seconds).
4. Most other programs have experienced similar speed increases, although my Windows Experience Index remains unchanged. Programs like Open Office are essentially instantaneous.
5. My computer's overall power consumption is identical before and after installation. No increase in case temperatures.
Installation was easy. The Adrenaline comes with a bracket allowing placement right under the existing hard drive. Crucial includes the SATA cord to connect to the motherboard, but I had to buy a splitter to get an extra SATA power connector. (My computer suffers from a curious lack of power connectors.) No biggie; it cost two bucks. NOTE: I don't even know, or care, what SATA means, but I figured out the connectors with no problem.
I turned on the computer, registered the license key, downloaded and installed the Dataplex software. Reboot, and it was good to go! The whole process took under an hour.
I am concerned after reading some posts from people who lose their hard drive when booting up the next day. If I ever have a problem, I'll scream bloody murder and post an immediate update. But right now, five stars!
UPDATE 2: I've been using this for three months now. Everything is running smooth as silk.
UPDATE 3: After several months of use, I suddenly got all kinds of system glitches after a big Windows update. It was serious enough that I had to do a full system restore and erase the original Dataplex software. Everything worked fine after the restore, but I just could not STAND how slow my powerful i7 machine seemed without this SSD! I reinstalled the Dataplex software and everything has been working smoothly for over a month now. I do advise making a full system backup "just in case," but there is just no way I want to use my computer without this SSD!
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By David Stone
Requirements: win 7, one spinning disk boot drive, extra drive bay with power cable, max 2TB on boot drive. (If you have a laptop with second bay & drive caddy, you won't be able to hot swap the SSD from the laptop--so plan to use an external dvd drive or un-install Dataplex before swapping.).
Installation: Directions are simple and it worked. My system is a Lenovo T520, i7, 8g RAM
You will notice: It really is very fast. I notice big speed improvements in boot time, program launch, OS/system operations-- anywhere disk reads recur because Dataplex stores in cache files that are used most often. So a large share of what my computer is doing is now a lot faster; my WAG is that some 70-80 percent of of what my disk does is now SSD speeds.
I do a lot of number crunching on this computer--giant excel files, stat packages, GIS software. I am not surprised that these programs load faster--hey its an SSD. But, I am surprised that it feels like they calculate faster. My guess is that faster page file activity, temp files, autosave, etc make it feel faster and that I love.
Conclusions: I have too much software for a 64gb boot drive, and a 500gb SSD runs about $700. But now I have a 500gb drive with much of SSD performance for only $120 (and external DVD on laptop). And on my desktop, I could the same with the 2TB drive!
Installation: Directions are simple and it worked. My system is a Lenovo T520, i7, 8g RAM
You will notice: It really is very fast. I notice big speed improvements in boot time, program launch, OS/system operations-- anywhere disk reads recur because Dataplex stores in cache files that are used most often. So a large share of what my computer is doing is now a lot faster; my WAG is that some 70-80 percent of of what my disk does is now SSD speeds.
I do a lot of number crunching on this computer--giant excel files, stat packages, GIS software. I am not surprised that these programs load faster--hey its an SSD. But, I am surprised that it feels like they calculate faster. My guess is that faster page file activity, temp files, autosave, etc make it feel faster and that I love.
Conclusions: I have too much software for a 64gb boot drive, and a 500gb SSD runs about $700. But now I have a 500gb drive with much of SSD performance for only $120 (and external DVD on laptop). And on my desktop, I could the same with the 2TB drive!
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By Matthew Wong
Amazon Verified Purchase
I just got my Crucial Adrenaline, its my first time using a product from Crucial. According to some reviews here, I backed up my data before installing. It went smoothly, and I timed it, from boot logo to being able to at least scroll in Firefox without the Adrenaline, it took 8mins 30 secs, 1st reboot after install the Adrenaline and Dataplex, it dropped to 3mins 35 sec and 2nd reboot, it dropped down to 1min 2 secs.
I accidentally turned off the mains to my computer and my computer had the computer was not shut down properly message but there wasn't any problems with starting up so far. So far so good though its only been a day, will update if any problems, but at the moment, 5 stars for cutting down my boot time by 7 mins plus despite being promoted as cut down boot time by half. Love the fact that Dataplex key is on a seperate card rather than on the drive itself. Everything comes in the box that's needed to install.
And in case anyone is wondering about my computer specs or if its useful to anyone, even at Crucial.
Intel Core 2 Quad Core Q8400
Gigabyte EP 45T UD3LR
2x 4GB Kingston DDR3 RAM
2x 4GB Scrotium DDR3 RAM
Palit GTS250
6 HDD - Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200rpm (boot drive)
500GB Hitachi 7200rpm
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB 5400rpm
Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB 5400rpm
Samsung Spinpoint 1 TB 7200rpm
Seagate Constellation 1TB 7200 RPM
6th April 2012 update:
A day after installing it, I had boot mgr missing and I had to reformat my entire system as I couldn't get the boot mgr fixed, spent a few hours reinstalling my stuff and copying my data back as I don't backup using softwares, I backed up my files by copying and paste. Lesson learnt, had Crucial reset the serial (they did it extremely quick, faster than I had expected) and backup my files using Acronis, reinstalled Crucial, and now it takes slightly under a min to start up and surf immediately, will update in the next few days to see if any problems might occur, in the mean time, will get a 1TB hard disk to backup my hard drive with Acronis.
Also, it'd probably be faster if I had SATA III ports on my motherboard which sadly I don't, both my main hard drive (WD Caviar Black) and the Crucial are both SATA III products
6th May 2012 Update:
A few weeks ago, I had system crash again due to a problem which I've forgotten so I had to restore. I've updated the firmware and the Dataplex software for what seems like 2 weeks without any issues whatsoever. But at the same time, I kept 2 copies of backup, 1 without Dataplex installed and 1 with Dataplex installed just in case, will update again should anything happen, but in the meantime, everything has been running great. My system boots in under a minute from Windows logo and all the programs I usually use at startup start more or less almost instantly. Though there was a rocky beginning, it seems to be improving.
2nd June 2012 Update:
2 weeks ago, the SSD failed to allow my computer to boot up, but this time, I manage to delete the cache data, boot up normally from my hard drive (without corruption of MBR) and enter windows after 10 long minutes and luckily, there was an update. I installed the update and for 2 weeks, it has been running flawlessly. I'm not sure if the version previously had a good software but I shall assume that the Dataplex software had improvements which allowed me to delete data and boot using the hard drive without issues as compared to the earlier versions, shall update again if there is any problems or improvements.
In summary, the version of software that I've run since I got it:
Version 1.1.2.5 (02-17-2012) I didn't use this
Version 1.1.2.9 (03-26-2012) First version I used, crashed after a while and caused MBR corruption, cannot get windows up and running and had to reinstall and copy everything from scratch
Version 1.1.3.0 (03-30-2012) Second version I used, slightly better, still crashed and caused MBR corruption and cannot get windows up and running, had to restore from image
Version 1.1.3.3 (04-18-2012) Third version I used, had some error (unknown why there was an error) but manage to delete cache data and disable cache drive which allowed me to boot from hard drive without issues, and just happened that the new version was released, so uninstalled and reinstalled the next version
Version 1.1.3.4 (04-25-2012) Current version in use, 2 weeks to date without any problems of booting up and usage.
Version 1.1.3.7 (06-16-2012) Unable to install this version on my computer as it keeps caching another drive despite the software automatically choosing my boot drive, rendering this version unusable on my computer, and I'm just plain lazy to reconnect the cables should I choose to plug out, plus its a mess of wires hence I don't want to go through the trouble, the previous versions had no such problems, will update when there's a new update.
Version 1.3.0.0 (03-10-2013) Installed without any issues, running extremely smooth. I had some issues with computer being unable to start-up due to a power supply that is unable to provide enough power but with the new version, I don't encounter that issue. Also there's an option to sync the data when computer fails to boot up (which solves the problem for me in the past by disabling and uninstalling and reinstalling Dataplex, been begging for this feature but no need to use at the moment). The best version I've used so far!
To date, its been running like a dream, fast, quick, no issues, just as it was suppose to be! Kudos to Crucial and or Nvelo for fixing the problems faced by users!
18 Dec 2012: I had some issues probably with software and other stuff, after reformatting and installing Dataplex, it works just great with 1.1.3.7 although the current version is 1.2.0.4 and until the software update is compelling enough for me to update, I will continue with the 1.1.3.7. But its been weeks and no issues encountered with my computer at the moment.
I accidentally turned off the mains to my computer and my computer had the computer was not shut down properly message but there wasn't any problems with starting up so far. So far so good though its only been a day, will update if any problems, but at the moment, 5 stars for cutting down my boot time by 7 mins plus despite being promoted as cut down boot time by half. Love the fact that Dataplex key is on a seperate card rather than on the drive itself. Everything comes in the box that's needed to install.
And in case anyone is wondering about my computer specs or if its useful to anyone, even at Crucial.
Intel Core 2 Quad Core Q8400
Gigabyte EP 45T UD3LR
2x 4GB Kingston DDR3 RAM
2x 4GB Scrotium DDR3 RAM
Palit GTS250
6 HDD - Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200rpm (boot drive)
500GB Hitachi 7200rpm
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB 5400rpm
Western Digital Caviar Green 1.5TB 5400rpm
Samsung Spinpoint 1 TB 7200rpm
Seagate Constellation 1TB 7200 RPM
6th April 2012 update:
A day after installing it, I had boot mgr missing and I had to reformat my entire system as I couldn't get the boot mgr fixed, spent a few hours reinstalling my stuff and copying my data back as I don't backup using softwares, I backed up my files by copying and paste. Lesson learnt, had Crucial reset the serial (they did it extremely quick, faster than I had expected) and backup my files using Acronis, reinstalled Crucial, and now it takes slightly under a min to start up and surf immediately, will update in the next few days to see if any problems might occur, in the mean time, will get a 1TB hard disk to backup my hard drive with Acronis.
Also, it'd probably be faster if I had SATA III ports on my motherboard which sadly I don't, both my main hard drive (WD Caviar Black) and the Crucial are both SATA III products
6th May 2012 Update:
A few weeks ago, I had system crash again due to a problem which I've forgotten so I had to restore. I've updated the firmware and the Dataplex software for what seems like 2 weeks without any issues whatsoever. But at the same time, I kept 2 copies of backup, 1 without Dataplex installed and 1 with Dataplex installed just in case, will update again should anything happen, but in the meantime, everything has been running great. My system boots in under a minute from Windows logo and all the programs I usually use at startup start more or less almost instantly. Though there was a rocky beginning, it seems to be improving.
2nd June 2012 Update:
2 weeks ago, the SSD failed to allow my computer to boot up, but this time, I manage to delete the cache data, boot up normally from my hard drive (without corruption of MBR) and enter windows after 10 long minutes and luckily, there was an update. I installed the update and for 2 weeks, it has been running flawlessly. I'm not sure if the version previously had a good software but I shall assume that the Dataplex software had improvements which allowed me to delete data and boot using the hard drive without issues as compared to the earlier versions, shall update again if there is any problems or improvements.
In summary, the version of software that I've run since I got it:
Version 1.1.2.5 (02-17-2012) I didn't use this
Version 1.1.2.9 (03-26-2012) First version I used, crashed after a while and caused MBR corruption, cannot get windows up and running and had to reinstall and copy everything from scratch
Version 1.1.3.0 (03-30-2012) Second version I used, slightly better, still crashed and caused MBR corruption and cannot get windows up and running, had to restore from image
Version 1.1.3.3 (04-18-2012) Third version I used, had some error (unknown why there was an error) but manage to delete cache data and disable cache drive which allowed me to boot from hard drive without issues, and just happened that the new version was released, so uninstalled and reinstalled the next version
Version 1.1.3.4 (04-25-2012) Current version in use, 2 weeks to date without any problems of booting up and usage.
Version 1.1.3.7 (06-16-2012) Unable to install this version on my computer as it keeps caching another drive despite the software automatically choosing my boot drive, rendering this version unusable on my computer, and I'm just plain lazy to reconnect the cables should I choose to plug out, plus its a mess of wires hence I don't want to go through the trouble, the previous versions had no such problems, will update when there's a new update.
Version 1.3.0.0 (03-10-2013) Installed without any issues, running extremely smooth. I had some issues with computer being unable to start-up due to a power supply that is unable to provide enough power but with the new version, I don't encounter that issue. Also there's an option to sync the data when computer fails to boot up (which solves the problem for me in the past by disabling and uninstalling and reinstalling Dataplex, been begging for this feature but no need to use at the moment). The best version I've used so far!
To date, its been running like a dream, fast, quick, no issues, just as it was suppose to be! Kudos to Crucial and or Nvelo for fixing the problems faced by users!
18 Dec 2012: I had some issues probably with software and other stuff, after reformatting and installing Dataplex, it works just great with 1.1.3.7 although the current version is 1.2.0.4 and until the software update is compelling enough for me to update, I will continue with the 1.1.3.7. But its been weeks and no issues encountered with my computer at the moment.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointed
Doesn't work with WIN8. Not stated until after purchase. Crucial needs to do a better job of telling the public the WHOLE truth!
Published 1 month ago by Onesgt
5.0 out of 5 stars
Works perfectly for what it's suppose to do
There is not much to say that has not already been stated except this,
Be sure you look at the software developers website before purchasing this drive. Read more
Be sure you look at the software developers website before purchasing this drive. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Philip C. Ferguson
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Product "But"
This is a great product if you are running Windows 7 or earlier. It's not officially support on Windows 8, You can run it on Windows 8 in Compatibility mode with actually works but... Read more
Published 3 months ago by bufalo
1.0 out of 5 stars
Adrenaline Junk
Yes, it speeded up the outlook email, but I have spent so much time reloading programs and reinstalling the software when this drive crashes that any time savings have been created... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. A. Tinsley
1.0 out of 5 stars
Caused me a complete headache and total loss of data
I thought this seemed like a great idea. It really did speed up my computer. After a few days, some programs stopped loading properly. Eventually, nothing worked. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Keith Bickford
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very happy camper!
After waiting a few months for the "kinks" to be ironed out, I finally ordered and installed this into my desktop computer (2. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mark Marino
5.0 out of 5 stars
Works great, quick install, very happy. SSD Caching is the best choice...
I bought 3 of these my kids gaming machines as Christmas gifts. The difference is amazing and I've had no problems. The slower the hard drive the bigger the speed boost. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Ron
5.0 out of 5 stars
Highly Recommend This Device
Once I installed this SSD Cache, my computer is running noticeable faster. The start up for Window 7 is multiple times faster. I had no issue with the software and installation. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Randy Koerner
2.0 out of 5 stars
Hardware Fine, Software, Not So Much
Installed this drive on an ASUS Sabertooth X58 MOBO with a WD 1TB target HD in AHCI mode. While it did speed up boot and program launch times programs would fade in and out after... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Frosty Mug
2.0 out of 5 stars
good hardware software is not ready for some systems
the reason i am giving this product 2 stars is because of the dataplex software that is used for caching on this drive. Read more
Published 5 months ago by K Carlson
