I’m glad you’re putting in the homework to help people like me decide which SSD is the best out there for our needs So, how does it perform? If Seagate hopes to sell a drive that costs more than the established SN850 and 980 Pro then it has to deliver, and it does. The latest Phison E18 drives typically excel at sequential read and write tasks, but tend to trail in random performance, and particularly random read tasks and IOPS, which is important for gaming performance. Some Phison E18 equipped SSDs don’t come with any kind of management software, which can be a hindrance if you're hoping to clone your existing drive. Seagate includes a reskinned version of Acronis True Image which is easy to use. Seagate's SeaTools app also deserves a mention. It provides S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, health information, self-testing and erase functions among others. I’d love to see somebody testing an 8tb internal NVMe drive in the PS5. I’m aware that Sony have stated that 4tb is the maximum capacity.

Hello,a question,im looking to buy a 500gb SSD for my PS5.What is the fast and more reliable SSD to buy as of now?Is it the firecuda 500gb or another one?The Seagate FireCuda 530 (2TB) is the fastest NVMe SSD we’ve tested; it has a very high TBW rating for a consumer drive; and it also carries a five-year guarantee with three years of data recovery coverage. It isn’t cheap, but it’s the best thing out there. After two (out of eight) Seagate FireCuda 520 2TB fails less than 10 months, I had swear to myself not buy their product again. Yes they replace the broken SSDs because its under warranty, but the lost data on the SSDs are irreplaceable and cost me few contracts and projects, not counting the intangible losses. I am still wondering, that you not compare the mp600 pro from corsair. The 2TB version gives you sequ. Read 7000 and write up to 6550mb/s. Maybe you can test this brand aswell… THXXX The PCIe 3 tests utilized Windows 10 64-bit running on a Core i7-5820K/Asus X99 Deluxe system with four 16GB Kingston 2666MHz DDR4 modules, a Zotac (NVidia) GT 710 1GB x2 PCIe graphics card, and an Asmedia ASM3242 USB 3.2×2 card. It also contains a Gigabyte GC-Alpine Thunderbolt 3 card, and Softperfect Ramdisk 3.4.6 for the 48GB read and write tests.

The drive is fairly standard in height to other m.2 NVMes, however, it is easy to forget that the micron NAND featured in the Firecuda 530 is significantly higher quality than many at 176L (something we will touch on later). if you are still going around in circles and need direct consultation, we have just started providing one-hour consultations via zoom. You can find out more about them via the link below: is it worth having a heat sink? My toweer has a window and I can open that whole side of the desktop to get fresh air in, and also, I have a bunch of fans going as well Nascompares I’ve seen a few videos of the ps5 reading the Mushkin Delta ssd the 2tb and 1 tb versions The Seagate FireCuda 530 is currently the fastest NVMe SSD on the market. It not only bested the best of the rest in our real-world and synthetic benchmarks, it did so by a healthy marginin several tests. If you can afford it and you can find it, you won’t regret it.

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As mentioned (about a million times, I know) the Firecuda 530 features M.2 PCIe4 architecture, arriving in NVMe 1.4 revision. This is an important detail as, although there are currently a large number of PCIe4 M.2 SSDs on the market, some are using older revisions. This can be updated in some cases, but it is by no means consumer-friendly/universal. Having a brain fart but which SSDs w/Heatsinks still fit with the Sabrent Heatsink? I remember seeing a video but can’t remember which one.

Seagate warns that the surface of the 530 may be hot. That’s under heavy use, of course. This is an image of the 2TB model we tested.

Seagate puts the SSD market on notice.

The Seagate FireCuda 530 is the fastest PCIe 4 NVMe SSD we’ve seen to date. It’s a bit pricey, but the extra cash also delivers outstanding longevity and support. Highly recommended. Hello sir. Thank you for detailed information about seaget firecuda 530 m.2 SSD. I bought it after i watched your video. But i couldn’te find a detailed guide to apply firmware update. Could you nake a video about firmware update? Love your videos. Thank you. Overall, you really cannot fault the hardware inside/onboard the Seagate Firecuda 530, as it is still by far one of the highest performing sequential Read and Write drives in the market over many other M.2 NVMe PCIe 4 SSDs released in the last 6-8 months. Before we go into the full testing, however, it is worth taking a moment to look closely at the reported performance benchmarks of the Seagate Firecuda 530, as although the performance is good, there are areas such as IOPS and endurance when compared with its main rivals that make quite a stark contrast. Seagate Firecuda 530 SSD Review – Official Stats First Thank you for this terrific review! I’m surprised Samsung (i.e. the king of PCIe 3.0 SSDs with the 970 Evo Plus) has not released a contender for the Firecuda 530 – neither in speed, especially write speed, nor capacity (4TB). Do you see Samsung releasing a flagship 4TB PCIe 4 SSD with > 7GB/s read AND write speeds before jumping over to PCIe 5.0 SSDs next year? This was a rather astounding 450GB write time, shaving nearly 20 seconds of the previous best. Shorter bars are better.