News Seagate's New FireCuda 120 SATA SSDs Arrive With M.2 Prices

[Admin]

Seagate has expanded its SSD portfolio with the new FireCuda 120 series of SATA SSDs.

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[USAFRet]

$200 for 1TB?
Unless you're using this in a datacenter with a LOT of write cycles, that's a hard pass.

 

[King_V]

Yeah, I'm figuring with those endurance levels, this is particular to datacenter needs, or similar.

 

[gg83]

Just another overpriced ssd that has basically a negative price to performance ratio. Samsung has perform better and cheaper prices right? Is almost double endurance worth it in the real world?

 

[cryoburner]

Yeah, I'm figuring with those endurance levels, this is particular to datacenter needs, or similar.

Too bad Seagate is instead pitching these to people building gaming systems. : P

Load Fast, Play Hard

Designed for speed, endurance, and capacity, FireCuda 120 can take everything PC games throw at it.

With up to 4TB of space, maxed out SATA 6Gb/s speeds, and the durability of up to 5600TB TBW, this SSD plugs in and loads up quickly. Give your battlestation a boost, the FireCuda 120 is ready to play.

5600 TBW write endurance for running games off of? Perhaps that's useful for someone completely reinstalling their entire multi-terabyte game library every single day for years? : D

I guess it's for people who just think bigger numbers must be better, while not noticing that performance-wise, the drives are only on-par with other SATA SSDs costing almost half as much. I like how they emphasize that "maxed out SATA 6Gb/s speeds", when other SSDs have been maxing out the SATA interface for years, and NVMe drives offer multiple times the theoretical performance compared to SATA.

You can currently get a Crucial MX500 1TB with the same level of performance as these drives for $115, or the 2TB version for $230. With these Firecuda 120 drives, you are paying nearly as much for half the capacity and no tangible performance benefits for gaming. You can even get some lower-end NVMe drives like the Intel 660p for as little as $120 for a TB, and those will outperform any SATA drive as far as game load times are concerned. Even higher-end NVMe drives like a 970 Evo don't cost this much. At this kind of pricing, this drive makes zero sense for gaming systems.

 

[USAFRet]

I guess it's for people who just think bigger numbers must be better,

I see that here every day.

"It only has 600TBW lifespan!!! It sux!!"
(said by someone who will never see 100TBW over the next decade)

 

[mdd1963]

$200 for 1TB?
Unless you're using this in a datacenter with a LOT of write cycles, that's a hard pass.

Yes, $200 for a 1 TB SSD is ludicrous, what with 2 TB Crucial MX500 SSDs only at $229 or so....(the 1 TB MX500 is only ~$105)

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, $200 for a 1 TB SSD is ludicrous, what with 2 TB Crucial MX500 SSDs only at $229 or so....(the 1 TB MX500 is only ~$105)

I'm sure there are use cases for this drive.

"Seagate puts a heavy emphasis on the fact that the FireCuda 120 SSDs cater to gaming systems that need a lot of storage (to store games, of course). "

But that is not it.

 

[USAFRet]

A good comparison of 1660 Super, 1660, RX580, and several others...

Wrong thread?