Are premium seagate SSHD firecuda worth the extra money?
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FireCuda SSHDs work differently than standard spinning hard drives. This is because they are Solid-State Hybrid drives, meaning they're part SSD tech and part spinning hard drive tech. How the drive works is that it intuitively places your most frequently accessed files on an 8GB solid-state cache. The main benefit of having the SSD cache is it makes things load quicker. SSD tech can give a significant performance boost the time it takes to load into windows, load applications, and if you're into gaming, load new areas of maps in open world games. The rest of the drive is spinning hard drive tech, so you still get a larger storage capacity without the premium price of SSD storage space.
If you'd like to see how they stack up in comparison to spinning HDDs and SSDs, here are a couple charts you may find of interest:
The first one compares startup times across several popular games across a traditional spinning 7200 RPM HDD, FireCuda, and an M.2 SSD (128GB). The white is for SSD, the orange for our SSHD, and the grey for the 7200 spinning HDD.
Startup Times
The next one compares the first 3 days of gaming storage utilization across several popular titles, and SYSmark ratings from various drive types and combinations. First of the grays is 7200 RPM 1TB spinning HDD, second (lightest gray) is FireCuda, third (darkest gray) is an SSD + 7200 RPM HDD combo, purple is SSD + FireCuda combo, and lastly, blue is SSD.
First 3 Days Gaming Storage Utilization
Thank you for considering Seagate regardless of which drive you decide is best for your needs in the end!
If you'd like to see how they stack up in comparison to spinning HDDs and SSDs, here are a couple charts you may find of interest:
The first one compares startup times across several popular games across a traditional spinning 7200 RPM HDD, FireCuda, and an M.2 SSD (128GB). The white is for SSD, the orange for our SSHD, and the grey for the 7200 spinning HDD.
Startup Times
The next one compares the first 3 days of gaming storage utilization across several popular titles, and SYSmark ratings from various drive types and combinations. First of the grays is 7200 RPM 1TB spinning HDD, second (lightest gray) is FireCuda, third (darkest gray) is an SSD + 7200 RPM HDD combo, purple is SSD + FireCuda combo, and lastly, blue is SSD.
First 3 Days Gaming Storage Utilization
Thank you for considering Seagate regardless of which drive you decide is best for your needs in the end!
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