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New storage toys.
Seagate today announced new internal and external storage solutions in its gaming-minded FireCuda range, including the FireCuda 530 SSD, the FireCuda Gaming Hard Drive and the FireCuda Gaming Hub.
We’ll get into each entry in the new range below.
FireCuda 530 SSD
“FireCuda 530 offers gamers the latest PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD technology to deliver the fastest and highest performance available in the company’s line of PC gaming storage products,” Seagate said of its new flagship SSD. “Delivering sequential read speeds of up to 7300 MB/s, the FireCuda 530 catalyses PCIe Gen4 power with transfer rates up to two times faster than PCIe Gen3 SSDs and 12 times faster than SATA-based SSDs.”
Seagate has expanded its FireCuda Gaming range with some high capacity HDDs and Hubs. Previously the range specialised in NVMe flash / high bandwidth performance using Thunderbolt interfaces, but the new offerings offer (up to) large capacities instead, based on Seagate s mechanical spinning disks. Whichever new product you choose you will get a device with Razer Chroma compatible RGB LED lighting.
The FireCuda Gaming Hard Drive is a 2.5-inch bus-powered external HDD (200g) which connects via a USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5Gbps) Micro-B interface. These drives have been readied in capacities of 1TB (US MSRP $80), 2TB ($110), and 5TB ($180). It isn t known whether the FireCuda Gaming Hard Drives use SMR HDD tech or not. Buyers get a one-year warranty and three years free access to Rescue Data Recovery services.