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SEAGATE FIRECUDA 530
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|January 2023
A great choice for the most demanding users, but if you don't need blazing speeds then you can save some cash
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PRICE 1TB, £113 (£136 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/339labs6
Seagate’s top-of-the-range offering, the FireCuda 530, is built to be a thoroughly modern drive, delivering the fastest read and write speeds via its PCI-E Gen4 interface. We’ve reviewed the 2TB drive here, although it’s also available in 500GB, 1TB and 4TB sizes.
Before we get into the performance details, it’s first worth noting that this drive has a huge endurance figure of 2,550TBW for the 2TB drive, while the 1TB drive is 1,275TBW. That’s more than double the industry average of 600TBW for a 1TB drive.
This story is from the January 2023 edition of PC Pro.
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