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Hi, Official Seagate Forums Team here. We noticed you're considering a Seagate FireCuda for your gaming needs, so just wanted to say thank you for considering us, and please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. Happy Zombie hunting!
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Zombie_hunter99 :
seagate_surfer :
Hi, Official Seagate Forums Team here. We noticed you're considering a Seagate FireCuda for your gaming needs, so just wanted to say thank you for considering us, and please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. Happy Zombie hunting!
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I currently Have in my laptop the Seagate 500GB Gaming SSHD. Here it is on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Gaming-2-5-Inch-Internal-ST500LM000/dp/B00B99JU5M . Do you know if the Firecuda drive uses more energy than this drive because my laptop does not have the best battery life and I do not want to have worse battery life if I decide to get the Firecuda drive?
This is a good question, and power management for laptops is definitely a big deal! Sorry that it took a bit of time for us to get back to you here. From the spec sheets which can be found
here for the ST500LM000 and
here for the Seagate FireCuda.
The ST500LM000 drive specs for seek power averages 2.5W and idle at 0.9W.
The FireCuda laptop drives spec at 1.0 Startup Current, seek power averages at 1.7/1.8 for the 2TB edition and 1.6/1.7 for the 1TB and 500GB editions. The average idle power is 0.5 for the 2TB and 0.45 for the 1TB and 500GB editions.
So there definitely have been some significant engineering improvements as far as reducing how much power the FireCuda drive uses. It's funny sometimes how tech works, you'd think tech capability innovations would make things bigger and require more power, but oftentimes they increase the capabilities while maintaining size/requirements or even somehow becoming smaller.
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