That’s all useless in the end it all depends what’s the purpose that the user is doing with the ssd in the end… 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. 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 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! 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?

I was looking at the 2TB 980 Pro Heatsink but after watch this decided to get the 2TB FireCuda 530 Heatsink ???? 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. 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!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. For the most part, I DO think Seagate has succeeded in fulfilling the promises they have made on the Firecuda 530 and have arguably released the best example of m.2 PCIe4 NVMe SSD architecture you can buy in 2021. There is no avoiding the fact that the Seagate Firecuda 530 series of SSDs have arrived on the market noticeably later than their biggest rivals AND with a higher price tag, so they were going to need to make a pretty good early impression to make up the ground amply covered by their competitors. The decision to focus heavily on endurance and durability is a remarkably mature one (and potentially controversial one against their competitors) in an age when consumers are demanding prices come down, forcing brands to either cut covers where they think they will be felt the least or going the budget router of QC NAND. Therefore you have to respect Seagate’s decision to draw a line in the sand here about what they consider a high-end SSD. Though some buyers might not be as thrilled to pay for these extras that they feel they won’t need, the Firecuda 530 is still pretty much the score to beat in 1TB above, though the 500GB whilst maintaining the price structure of larger drives, might leave you a little less impressed. Overall, I can definitely recommend the Firecuda 530 series, but maybe pay the extra and go for the 1TB at the very least. Drive Do we know the stats of the PS5 SSD? I wanted to compare it to other SSDs but can’t find anything about the official PS5 one 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. What a great. Breakdown I got one of these for.my PS5 …..and you really notice a difference keep up the good work ???? cheers

PapaCrazy said:More performance than Samsung Pro with twice the endurance and the same 5 year warranty? Still, this speed, when paired with all the benefits that the new flash has to offer, will provide for plenty of uplift in comparison to Phison E18-based SSDs paired with Micron’s 96L floating gate TLC interfacing at the same speed. Not only does this flash feature four planes, but also multiple physical enhancements to its design over the company’s previous memory. Micron’s replacement gate flash uses metal-based control gates, features an increased etch diameter, and reduced cell-to-cell capacitive coupling issues to provide for its fast performance and high-end endurance. Before we conduct our own testing on this SSD, Let’s take a closer look at the reported specifications and benchmarks first. The Seagate Firecuda 530 SSD arrives in four capacities at 500GB,1TB, 2TB and 4TB. The Prices currently are a little inconsistent (with each higher capacity tier actually having a higher price per GB – quite unusual) likely due to the hardware shortages, the Pandemic, Chia has affected SSD availability in the last 12 months and most recently the announcement that PS5 supports this SSD and it has increased the current price of most models around 20%! Below is a breakdown of how each Firecuda 530 SSD compares: Drive

Probably the best PS5 SSD expansion coverage on YouTube. I had never heard of you until he started following these videos since I have a PS5 The 2TB and 4TB drives are double-sided, while the 512GB/1TB capacities are single-sided. This is a possible consideration if your laptop is super-thin.

Apart from the PCMark 10 storage tests, the FireCuda 530 either matches or beats the big bois of the storage world, and when you add its leading sequential performance and endurance rating, the Seagate 530 is at least the equal of any consumer SSD on the market. Join the Inner Circle? The Inner Circle is a community of like-minded individuals who are passionate about the same things you are. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and get replies from me and other Inner Circle members who are dedicated to helping each other out. 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.

Seagate puts the SSD market on notice.

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 Have you heard of the m.2 SSD from japan called CFD Gaming PG4VNZ? Would love to hear your inputs regarding that SSD. Heard it could match the speeds of WD SN850 at 6500mb/s for only 18000 yen or around 150 usd.

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). I have the 4tb heat sink version. The 530 was the only offering from EB Games here in Australia. I chose the 4tb to future proof the Sony. Pretty happy I did now. We have a bunch of games that load near instantly with room to spare for many more. 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 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.To top off its act of certitude, Seagate will recover data from a failed FireCuda 530 for the first three years of ownership, free of charge. Let’s hope that’s something you never have to utilize. Seagate’s probably counting on that. I kid. Mostly. Performance File transfer times were some of the most impressive I’ve seen in all my time testing SSDs, with particular highlights being with some of the biggest PS5 games. Horizon: Forbidden West, with its 99.35 GB file size, jumped from the internal storage to the NVMe SSD in just 1 minute and 19 seconds (or 79 seconds). Equally impressive is Death Stranding: Director’s Cut (69.35 GB), which transferred in only 54 seconds. That’s well over 1 GB/sec being more-than-enough to copy your entire game library over in just a few minutes. 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. Great show, good info????????, will be getting the sea gate 2T with heat sink for my PS5 , thanks for info, keep up the great work, many thanks????????. The first very clear thing is that the performance clearly scales quite hugely as you go through each capacity tier. The 500GB model features a rather underwhelming 3000GB sequential write compared with the more than double 6,000MB/s and 6,900MB/s reported on the rest of the series, but the sequential read performance of all capacities is still reported at 7,000MB/s (with a peak of 7,300MB/s at the highest end). Likewise, the 4K IOPS scales noticeably through the tiers, with the 500GB being the only version that does not break the 1,000,000 IOPS rating. Understandably this is an architecture/physical NAND scale limitation, but it definitely worth highlighting, as many buyers who are looking at the Seagate Firecuda 530 series and are somewhat intimidated by the higher price tag over other M.2 PCIe4 NVMe SSDs (but still want the endurance and durability of use) might scale to the 500GB model and then be unaware they are getting a very different ‘write’ experience. That said, modern PC and console gamers who are going to use the Seagate Firecuda 530 are going to largely need to focus on Read activity. For a better understanding of the most commonly used terms in the word of SSDs, take a moment to watch my video below that breaks down all of the most complex and repeated terms and anacronyms into plain, chewable English!