Seagate FireCuda 530, 2 TB, Internal SSD, M.2 PCIe Gen4 ×4 NVMe 1.4, transfer speeds up to 7300 MB/s, 3D TLC NAND, 2550 TBW, Heatsink, for PS5/PC, 3 year Rescue Services (ZP2000GM3A023)

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I think I buy one for my PC. Have a X570 Board with PCI Gen 4 support and a Ryzen 5950, a 3090 and a 64gb of ram. So my old Gen 3 nvme SSD are a little out of place especially considering direct storage. A 4 TB option is very cool and usefull for having a lot of games installed, what I usually have. I heared the PS 5 can have up to 4 TB as well.

Given that I’ve only ever used HDDs for the past 21 years, I’m looking forward to finally getting aboard the SSD-train in a few days. Overall, the Seagate Firecuda 530 was certainly able to provide some solid read performance, though clearly the fact this review features the 500GB drive has undermined the write activity. I am fully confident that larger capacity testing (coming soon) will live up to their respective reported benchmarks, as well as potentially exceed the test figures here on a more powerful machine. Thanks for your videos man. Currently in the process of deciding if Firecuda 530 is overkill for my PS5 use case. I won’t be streaming, recording, etc just playing mainly RPGs (a little 2K and Madden here and there). I know buying this would be “future proofing” but is that even a valid phrase anymore with how fast the tech industry moves. WD sn850 dropped less than a yr ago and has already been surpassed in performance and reliability on paper. Fast forward a yr from now, I imagine the same will happen with this drive. You can never keep up! Considering its price, brand, and miniscule performance benefit I’d rather buy a better samsung 980 pro or wd sn850. They’re both in house so they know internally the binning and quality level of everything and I trust either of them more than a buy nand and controller separately company.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. Great content, thank you. I will be attaching the 1TB 530 along with that Sabrent heatsink to the PS5. I think you mentioned its fine as long as I leave the cover off the SSD enclosure correct? Who cares about the Crystal Disk Mark tests when the actual copy speed, even for a very large file, isn’t more than 2GB/s, when as per Seagate’s claim, it should be around 6GBs/. Pathetic SSD indeed! 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. The larger capacity Firecuda 530s drives at 2TB and 4TB feature double-sided NAND placement, resulting in both better capacity handling, performance and durability. However, this needs to be balanced against a larger heatsink/thermal pad application. In PC use, this is of little-to-no concern, but now the Firecuda 530 NVMe SSD is pretty much the ‘score-to-beat’ on PS5 SSD upgrades, this is an important consideration.

Lyve: Periferie-naar-cloudplatform voor massaopslag Lyve Cloud: Voordelige objectopslag, ontworpen voor de multicloudAlongside the controller and NAND, the Firecuda 530 features DD4 DRAM/memory. This scales in capacity alongside each storage tier of the series. Another interesting thing of note on the Seagate Firecuda 530 SSD drive physically is that regardless of whether you chooses the 500GB, 1TB, 2TB or 4TB, they ALL arrive at 2280 length. This is to be expected on the smaller capacities, but the 4TB in particular managing to hit that cap without resorting to a 22110 (without compromising the NAND storage to QLC etc) is impressive indeed. This does mean that the 2TB and 4TB model then need to be double-sided drives (something to factor in at the heatsink level on more compact PC and console systems like PS5) but never the less, only 2-3 brands including Seagate include a 4TB drive at this architecture and performance threshold. This review is part of our ongoing roundup of the best SSDs. Go there for information on competing products and how we tested them. Design and specs 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? Below I tested 4 different games on the Playstation 5, with each game being stored on the m.2 SSD expansion slot populated with the Seagate Firecuda 530. In three out of four cases, the game loaded 1 Sec + faster on the Seagate:

There are also two basic FireCuda 530 versions. One comes with a heatsink, and the other does not. We have the heatsink-less version on hand. Alongside this controller, the NAND featured on the Seagate Firecuda 530 is quite a top-end choice too. As mentioned, the Phison E18 controller has been featured on a number of other solutions in the last 6+ months, however, the Firecuda 530 arrives with an extra advantage with Micron 176 layered 3D TLC NAND. This is very important, as this massive jump over the bulk of other SSDs that arrive with 96L NAND allows better-sustained performance through the drives lifetime and (more importantly) a MUCH higher endurance rating. With most other M.2 PCIe4 NVMe SSDs arriving with 0.3 or 0.38 drive writes per day, this one is rated at 0.7 DWPD. Even if you are not planning on hammered this drive daily, that only means this SSD NAND will last even longer and will in all likelihood massively outline whatever system it is installed within. 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. Below is a breakdown of the hardware specifications of the Firecuda 530. There are a number of key factors here that really need your attention! Drive You might say the Firecuda whupped the competition. At least in PCIe 4. PCIe 3 limits the latest NVMe’ SSD’s sustained throughput performance.

building a new pc, do i need a seperate hard drive or another ssd for storage? i see so many builds with an m.2 drive along with another drive.. can’t i just get one of these for windows and games and that’s it? i’m not exactly sure why i see builds with two seperate drives. thanks in advanced Maak een einde aan de kosten en complexiteit van het opslaan, verplaatsen en activeren van gegevens op schaal. It’s not just about speed, Seagate have a terrible reputation for reliability. I wouldn’t ever buy a Seagate drive again, last one I owned broke within weeks and I lost all my data.