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2TB Seagate Firecuda 520 NVMe Gen4 SSD $170

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Model: Seagate FireCuda 520 ZP2000GM3A002 2 TB Solid State Drive - M.2 Internal - PCI Express NVMe (PCI Express NVMe 4.0 x4) - 5000 MB/s Maximum Read Transfe

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Gears_and_Beers
08-31-2022 at 10:57 AM.
08-31-2022 at 10:57 AM.
5000 read, 4400 write, 3600TBW, 1.8M MTBF.

How is this not standard practice when posting?
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JollyReward108
08-31-2022 at 11:26 AM.
08-31-2022 at 11:26 AM.
Thanks OP, not as fast as my Samsung 980 PRO 2 TB, but I did pay about $235 back in Dec. 2020 for it.
This will be a fine addition for my new build this Dec.
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08-31-2022 at 11:40 AM.
08-31-2022 at 11:40 AM.
i have an old rig. that only supports nvme gen 3 speeds. i was waiting for the sk hynix p31 to go back on sale at $159

any advice if its worth it to go $20 more and get this drive? a 1.8m MTBF means this should be as durable?
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08-31-2022 at 11:54 AM.
08-31-2022 at 11:54 AM.
Seagate Firecuda drives have always been overpriced. This is still too high for a first gen of Gen 4, when higher performance tier (comparable to Firecuda 530) is getting discounted to not much higher than this (KC3000 2TB is $186 with code at kingston.com).
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SimMike777
08-31-2022 at 12:46 PM.
08-31-2022 at 12:46 PM.
Quote from dealzfan :
i have an old rig. that only supports nvme gen 3 speeds. i was waiting for the sk hynix p31 to go back on sale at $159

any advice if its worth it to go $20 more and get this drive? a 1.8m MTBF means this should be as durable?
Could be wrong, but I think the real-world performance difference between Gen 3 and Gen 4 is probably not very noticeable.
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08-31-2022 at 02:06 PM.
08-31-2022 at 02:06 PM.
Quote from SimMike777 :
Could be wrong, but I think the real-world performance difference between Gen 3 and Gen 4 is probably not very noticeable.
It all depends on what people mean by "real world performance".

If that means Gen 4 will always feel faster than a Gen 3 while usng a computer, then no that won't be the case.

But there are scenarios where it will speed up things. For example, if the computer needs to swap out of or into memory when available memory is used up, it will happen much faster with Gen 4.

Will result in faster app switches and startups to get the bits into memory if processing is not the bottleneck.

Or apps that do storage read/process/write back operations like media processing if not constrained by processing speed will happen faster.

The bottleneck right now is that the max pcie speeds and bandwidth are only leveraged between the CPU and other pcie source/destimations, any other storage usage like backups, downloads, etc are constrained by the external connection or bus speeds and throughput.

But architectures and software will evolve to use the additional speed fairly soon.
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beritolam
09-01-2022 at 12:15 PM.
09-01-2022 at 12:15 PM.
(Ann Wilson voice)

"Oooooooh, Firecuda....."
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09-01-2022 at 05:29 PM.
09-01-2022 at 05:29 PM.
3600TBW, industrial grade. This is a really good candidate for NAS cache drive.
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09-05-2022 at 02:29 PM.
09-05-2022 at 02:29 PM.
Quote from WingsOfF :
Seagate Firecuda drives have always been overpriced. This is still too high for a first gen of Gen 4, when higher performance tier (comparable to Firecuda 530) is getting discounted to not much higher than this (KC3000 2TB is $186 with code at kingston.com).
530 doesn't have half the stated endurance...
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09-05-2022 at 02:35 PM.
09-05-2022 at 02:35 PM.
Quote from dealzfan :
i have an old rig. that only supports nvme gen 3 speeds. i was waiting for the sk hynix p31 to go back on sale at $159

any advice if its worth it to go $20 more and get this drive? a 1.8m MTBF means this should be as durable?
What you're really going to feel is small random reads and writes. You will get that benefit with Gen 4 drives on a Gen 3 slot because they have better controllers, more cache, better flash etc.
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09-05-2022 at 05:05 PM.
09-05-2022 at 05:05 PM.
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530 doesn't have half the stated endurance...
Have no idea what you are trying to say here.
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dreadinny
09-12-2022 at 09:47 PM.
09-12-2022 at 09:47 PM.
Back at $179
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09-16-2022 at 01:45 PM.
09-16-2022 at 01:45 PM.
Quote from dealzfan :
i have an old rig. that only supports nvme gen 3 speeds. i was waiting for the sk hynix p31 to go back on sale at $159

any advice if its worth it to go $20 more and get this drive? a 1.8m MTBF means this should be as durable?

where did you see that? link? i want to kee an eye out on that site
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