Seagate FireCuda 530, 4 TB, Internal Solid State Drive - M.2 PCIe Gen4 ×4 NVMe 1.4, transfer speeds up to 7300 MB/s, 3D TLC NAND, 5100 TBW, Heatsink, 3 year Rescue Services (ZP4000GM3A023)

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NVMe SSDs are tested natively through an M.2 to PCIe adapter card in the edge-card slot, while U.2 drives are loaded in the front. The methodology used better reflects end-user workflow with the consistency, scalability, and flexibility testing within virtualized server offers. A large focus is put on drive latency across the entire load range of the drive, not just at the smallest QD1 (Queue-Depth 1) levels. We do this because many of the common consumer benchmarks don’t adequately capture end-user workload profiles. Game and Create. Blistering transfer speeds of up to 7,300 MB/s, endurance, and capacity makes content creation applications run faster and smoother. Highest Performance. At up to 7,300 MB/s you can harness the full power of PCIe Gen4 speeds to dominate next-generation games and applications For games it will perform just the same as a good sata drive, Very few games have Direct storage to take full advantage of it, Even games that do it's literally 0.5 seconds to 3 seconds compared to a sata ssd,

Literally the faster the storage drive the better really, It will save you lot of time just booting up the app or updating everything in creative Cloud, For pc games absolutely not, Very few games use the Direct storage API to use the PCIE4.0 to it's full potential (Forspoken ,Ratchet & clank Rift apart) Any other pc games will be the same speed for load times as any sata ssd, It's literally brand loyalty at this point as any PCIE4.0 drives from the major players are nearly identical, All of these tests leverage the common vdBench workload generator, with a scripting engine to automate and capture results over a large compute testing cluster. This allows us to repeat the same workloads across a wide range of storage devices, including flash arrays and individual storage devices. Our testing process for these benchmarks fills the entire drive surface with data, then partitions a drive section equal to 5% of the drive capacity to simulate how the drive might respond to Seagate uses the Phison E18 controller, which they state is a “Seagate-validated” part. With the E18 being one of the better consumer Gen4 controllers we’ve seen recently, its no question why they went with this model.

Seagate FireCuda 530 SSD Specifications

Some games do break because they were never meant to run on such fast drives and it breaks the game code, Considerable Capacity. Graphics-intensive games and big files are no problem with up to 4 TB capacities to keep your gaming library at your fingertips and your creative content rendering. 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. When looking at the Application Workload Analysis performance, the Seagate FireCuda 530 showed the second fastest results the lab has seen yet, bested by the Samsung 980 Pro 2TB. Some highlights include 577,835 IOPS in 4K read, 5.67GB/s in 64K read, 2.01GB/s in 64K write, and finally in VDI boot we saw 128,481 IOPS. 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.

Speed Reigns. FireCuda 530 dominates the SSD lineup — delivering pure performance, absolute power, the most advanced components and unrivalled endurance. Next, we are looking at VDI benchmarks, which are designed to push the drives even further. These tests include Boot, Initial Login, and Monday Login. Looking at the Boot test, the FireCuda 530 keeps fighting with the front-runners, with a peak of 128,481 IOPS at a latency of 266.9µs. Anything to save you a few seconds every with every task you do,Over the course of a video production edit those seconds do add up to alot, It will save you a few hours a month just in load times,

Last but not least, with the VDI Monday Login test, the FireCuda 530 easily takes first with IOPS of 44,059 with a latency of 255.1µs.

The only game I played that had a problem with an M.2 drive was Fallout 4 for door load times of over a minute,When I installed it in my Sata ssd drive it was 5 seconds, That was the only encounter I had where the game didn't like the Firecuda 530) The 4tb Firecuda 530 with heatsink PCIE4.0 M.2 drive, It has Read speeds of 7300 mbs and write speeds of 6900 mbs, While the FireCuda’s sustained write performance is monstrous, it recovers slowly. While some SSDs recover their SLC cache within our idle round testing spanning up to 30 minutes, the FireCuda 530 did not. Power Consumption and Temperature Fastest. FireCuda. Ever. Built for sustained, pro-level gaming and accelerated content creation with transfer speeds up to 2× faster than PCIe Gen3 NVMe SSDs and up to 12× faster than SATA SSDs. application workloads. This is different than full entropy tests which use 100% of the drive and take them into a steady state. As a result, these figures will reflect higher-sustained write speeds.This change of mind return policy is in addition to, and does not affect your rights under the Australian Consumer Law including any rights you may have in respect of faulty items. To return faulty items see our Returning Faulty Items policy.

This change of mind return policy is in addition to, and does not affect your rights under the Australian Consumer Law including any rights you may have in respect of faulty items. This test uses SQL Server 2014 running on Windows Server 2012 R2 guest VMs and is stressed by Quest’s Benchmark Factory for Databases. StorageReview’s Microsoft SQL Server OLTP testing protocol employs the current draft of the Transaction Processing Performance Council’s Benchmark C (TPC-C), an online transaction-processing benchmark that simulates the activities found in complex application environments. The Seagate FireCuda 530 PCIe Gen4 M.2 SSD is the latest in Seagate’s FireCuda lineup specifically designed for PC Gaming. Unlike previous drives, the FireCuda 530 uses PCIe Gen4 and 3D TLC NAND, it also comes in capacities ranging from 500GB to 4TB. Although it is more expensive than most consumer drives, its performance may justify the price for some serious gamers.The Seagate FireCuda 530 PCIe Gen4 M.2 SSD takes advantage of PCIe Gen4 and 3D TLC NAND for a very impressive performance showcase. Although this drive is designed for consumer workloads, more specifically gaming, it can hold its own in enterprise applications when tasked with server workloads. Although we tested the 2TB version, you can expect slight performance differences with different sizes. Going up in performance with the bigger sizes, and down with the lower sizes. Endurance Unleashed. Designed to perform under heavy use and tough enough to go the distance — up to 5,100 TB TBW means you can write and delete 70% of the drive capacity, every day, for five years. a 500GB volume for the database and log files. From a system resource perspective, we configured each VM with 16 vCPUs, 64GB of DRAM and leveraged the LSI Logic SAS SCSI controller. While our Sysbench workloads tested previously saturated the platform in both storage I/O and capacity, the SQL test is looking for latency performance. 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 Looking at SQL Server average latency, the Seagate FireCuda 530 had an average latency of 2ms, which places it at an impressive tie for 2nd. Only beaten by the Samsung 970 EVO Plus.