Crucial Adrenaline CT050M4SSC2BDA 50GB Solid State Cache for Windows 7-based PCs

Delivers dramatic PC performance gains at an affordable price

Crucial® Adrenaline enables your Windows® 7-based PC to start up twice as fast and boosts performance of your system by up to 8 times.

¹ Performance scores after three runs allowing active data to be cached on solid state drive. Scores may vary depending upon benchmark used and system configuration. Test setup: Intel DP67BG motherboard, Seagate Barracuda 750GB hard drive using PCMark Vantage HDD test suite.

SSD-like performance. Hard Drive capacity.

Crucial Adrenaline combines your existing hard drive and solid state cache into a single storage system to give you the best of both worlds: SSD-like performance without compromising the capacity of your hard drive.

Consumers are storing more and more personal content on their home computers, such as movies, photos, music, and multimedia documents. While traditional hard disk drives provide large amounts of storage at a low cost, solid state drives provide the ability to access that content much more quickly. Currently, the investment in a high-capacity SSD can be cost prohibitive for the average consumer. As an example, a 500GB SSD costs around $800 while a 500GB hard drive is only $80.

Crucial® Adrenaline addresses this pain point by allowing consumers to keep their existing hard drive while boosting its performance by up to 8 times¹. A simple upgrade for Windows® 7 systems, Crucial Adrenaline offers consumers the best of both worlds: SSD-like performance and the capacity of a hard drive, all at an affordable cost.

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 to combine the hard drive and solid state cache into a single storage system.