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Maximum sequential read and write speeds up to 5000MB/s and 4400MB/s
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Specification: Seagate Firecuda 520 SSD 1TB up to 5000 MB/s – Performance Internal M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen4 X4 for Gaming Desktop Laptop (ZP1000GM3A002)
Brand
Seagate
Manufacturer
Seagate
Series
FireCuda
Colour
Black
Form Factor
M.2
Item Height
3.58 Millimeters
Item Width
22.15 Millimeters
Product Dimensions
8.01 x 2.21 x 0.36 cm, 8.5 Grams
Batteries
1 A batteries required.
Item model number
ZP1000GM3A002
Processor Brand
amd
Hard Drive Size
1 TB
Hard Disk Description
Solid State Drive
Hard Drive Interface
PCIE x 4
Number of USB 2.0 Ports
1
Wattage
50
Power Source
dc
Hardware Platform
High-performance PCs and workstations, Creative professional systems
Are Batteries Included
No
Lithium Battery Weight
0.5 Milligrams
Number of Lithium Ion Cells
7
Number of Lithium Metal Cells
7
Included Components
Seagate FireCuda 520 SSD
Country of Origin
China
Item Weight
8.5 g
13 reviews for Seagate Firecuda 520 SSD 1TB up to 5000 MB/s – Performance Internal M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen4 X4 for Gaming Desktop Laptop (ZP1000GM3A002)
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DesiMan –
It’s fast, easy to install but main reason for getting this 2tb SSD is the 3600 TBW rating. That’s among the longest i have seen for a consumer class product at a fairly reasonable price. Highly recommend
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★★★★★
CHRIS –
Comprei e fui instalar no Playstation 5 mas acabou não funcionando direito porque esquenta muito e faz o videogame desligar em poucos segundos. Vou instalar um dissipador de calor e testar novamente.
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★★★★★
UcSam –
Super produit, ultra rapide, je l’utilise depuis 9 mois sans problème.
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Shrikant Raut –
Firecuda 520 is a PCIE gen 4 SSD. You have to remember that before you make a purchase. The good parts: The read speed is rated at 5Gbps and that’s not a lie. I play a lot of games and the concept of loading screen with this SSD is almost non-existent (for offline games).
I used to be on a SATA SSD before and I can totally notice the difference. Following are the games that I tested: 1. Red Dead Redemption 2 (xbox game pass) 2. Assassins Creed Odyssey (steam) 3. Horizon Zero Dawn (epic store) 4. Sekiro Shadows die twice (steam)
The games above have loading screen for approx 1-2 seconds. I think it’s only as a formality that the games have to show for even that long.
I installed Windows in under 5 minutes on this thing, and the bottleneck during the installation was the restart time.
The boot up is close to 5 seconds from 0 to full desktop.
The bad parts: That said, the write speed of the drive is not 5Gbps, remember that. SSDs usually use a “buffer memory” for writing. While transferring big chunks of files the buffer can overflow and cause even lower write speeds. For example, while I was trying to copy over RDR2 (150GB) from my old ssd to this one, I found the speed reduced from 2.5 Gbps to 500-700 Mbps after a while. (I think after 20Gbs or so).
Don’t expect good loading time from online games. Borderlands 3, Fall guys, etc usually take much longer than 2 seconds to load because of their bottleneck i.e. the internet. (I use150mbps YouBroadband)
I also noticed the SSD (45 degrees) runs a fair bit hotter compared to SATA SSD (38 degrees) while gaming. (Celsius of course.)
Conclusion: Do you have a PCIE4 m.2 slot on your motherboard? (Speaking in Sept. 2020 only AMD CPUs have that luxury) Do you have the money and requirement for this speed? (I mean you really don’t need it for watching pirated movies, trust me, that’s just a waste of money.)
If the answer is yes to both of those questions, get it.
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★★★★★
Edward Kumar –
Have been using this ssd for few day now on PS4 and Xbox one s and yes on ps4 release edition doesn’t provide the features this ssd has to offer best storage and little bit better on transfer the game back and forth from my PS4 hard drive to ssd since it’s a external hard drive for the system, but on the other hand xbox one s get the features of fast loading screen better rate of texture being rendered due to usb 3.0 for fast communication and game play on xbox are Cyberpunk asset loading during gun fight are better than base hard drive or better than sata ssd, loading menus are easier to access like for radio station in the car took longer but the effect for that menu pop in was to effect fast than the dial use to render later but with this ssd this feature work propt as soon as you press the radio button,Halo infinite stick to 30 fps and no fame drop I have seen till now no lag been any menu and input, red dead redemption 1 work like a charm, code vein work extremely perfect when on xbox one s, Ac Odyssey and Valhalla world loading was fluidity as possible but held back due to xbox 1 hardware. On ps side the ghost recon breakpoint, ghost tsushima, call of duty work fine but my PS4 is to old and with no usb 3 the power from pci ssd was held back but has similar results as from a sata ssd. The heating was normal since I have a open space for my ps and Xbox so not heating on pci ssd only time I face heating was transferring data of game from hard drive to ssd, but in game play the pci had normal temperature’s but no heating. Goes to sleep mod if you playing only if you are AFC(Away from console)or pause the game left it there great features but this technical my case features (case name ssk) please
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Mohsin –
True Gen 4, works at blazing speed. Does not come with a heatsink though; you wont need one if you are using a good motherboard and they come with heat sink. (Never use these without them). I prefer this over WD SN850 because in Idle it is cool and consumes no power. All these NVMe adds upto the Thermals of the board, so need good airflow. Little lowering of price will make it a greatest of the buys for your build
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★★★★★
Ameya P –
Got this product to expand on my laptop. Works as intended, fast at write and read, good value for money
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DesiMan –
Read Speed is as mentioned but write speed is slower than mentioned. I have 500 GB as my main storage C drive. Works perfectly fine.
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Shrikant Raut –
Seagate has done a great job with this product. I am actually getting speeds advertised on the product itself. It is small and compact with a good amount of space. Loading games and other programs is not an issue at all. Everything runs smoothly on it so far. The warranty on it is pretty great too and hope to see it run for that period. Can’t wait for more releases from Seagate.
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★★★★★
PRATEEK SINGH –
Una bestia en lectura y escritura. No le pongo 5 estrellas porque vale igual que el Samsung 980 pro, que es un poco más rápido. Tengo los dos de hecho y los he probado.
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★★★★★
Bharat Terang –
Really good product
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Beni –
Acheté au prix fort; dommage que le prix ressemble plus à celui d’un produit alimentaire au marché qui varie de façon aléatoire et parfois dépasse le bon sens.
Garantie bonne, meilleurs cycles en écriture du marché. Vitesse écriture correcte mais j’attandais vraiment plus. Le boot windows semble plus à un disque SATA. (pour une config materielle au top) Dans les logiciels de tests la propagande et la pub marche bien et correspondent. Encryptions matérielle correcte. Bonne impression au niveau matériel. Longévité à voir dans le temps vu que la chance joue beaucoup et la propagande publicitaire est parfois trompeuse. Offre software Seagate pour la gestion du disque pauvre.
Il ne faut pas évaluer les produits tiers de clonage ou autres dans le cadre d’une évaluation matérielle d’un disque.
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Bharat Terang –
A doubt whether the item is what I paid for, the batch being different and so on. The seller did not give such details on the website, but this an issue of the manufacturer unless these SSD are packed in India. Framkly, I wont advise buying Firecuda or avoid buying from this seller. It just shows an ‘ I couldn’t care attitude’
DesiMan –
It’s fast, easy to install but main reason for getting this 2tb SSD is the 3600 TBW rating. That’s among the longest i have seen for a consumer class product at a fairly reasonable price. Highly recommend
CHRIS –
Comprei e fui instalar no Playstation 5 mas acabou não funcionando direito porque esquenta muito e faz o videogame desligar em poucos segundos.
Vou instalar um dissipador de calor e testar novamente.
UcSam –
Super produit, ultra rapide, je l’utilise depuis 9 mois sans problème.
Shrikant Raut –
Firecuda 520 is a PCIE gen 4 SSD. You have to remember that before you make a purchase.
The good parts:
The read speed is rated at 5Gbps and that’s not a lie.
I play a lot of games and the concept of loading screen with this SSD is almost non-existent (for offline games).
I used to be on a SATA SSD before and I can totally notice the difference. Following are the games that I tested:
1. Red Dead Redemption 2 (xbox game pass)
2. Assassins Creed Odyssey (steam)
3. Horizon Zero Dawn (epic store)
4. Sekiro Shadows die twice (steam)
The games above have loading screen for approx 1-2 seconds. I think it’s only as a formality that the games have to show for even that long.
I installed Windows in under 5 minutes on this thing, and the bottleneck during the installation was the restart time.
The boot up is close to 5 seconds from 0 to full desktop.
The bad parts:
That said, the write speed of the drive is not 5Gbps, remember that.
SSDs usually use a “buffer memory” for writing. While transferring big chunks of files the buffer can overflow and cause even lower write speeds.
For example, while I was trying to copy over RDR2 (150GB) from my old ssd to this one, I found the speed reduced from 2.5 Gbps to 500-700 Mbps after a while. (I think after 20Gbs or so).
Don’t expect good loading time from online games.
Borderlands 3, Fall guys, etc usually take much longer than 2 seconds to load because of their bottleneck i.e. the internet. (I use150mbps YouBroadband)
I also noticed the SSD (45 degrees) runs a fair bit hotter compared to SATA SSD (38 degrees) while gaming. (Celsius of course.)
Conclusion:
Do you have a PCIE4 m.2 slot on your motherboard? (Speaking in Sept. 2020 only AMD CPUs have that luxury)
Do you have the money and requirement for this speed? (I mean you really don’t need it for watching pirated movies, trust me, that’s just a waste of money.)
If the answer is yes to both of those questions, get it.
Edward Kumar –
Have been using this ssd for few day now on PS4 and Xbox one s and yes on ps4 release edition doesn’t provide the features this ssd has to offer best storage and little bit better on transfer the game back and forth from my PS4 hard drive to ssd since it’s a external hard drive for the system, but on the other hand xbox one s get the features of fast loading screen better rate of texture being rendered due to usb 3.0 for fast communication and game play on xbox are Cyberpunk asset loading during gun fight are better than base hard drive or better than sata ssd, loading menus are easier to access like for radio station in the car took longer but the effect for that menu pop in was to effect fast than the dial use to render later but with this ssd this feature work propt as soon as you press the radio button,Halo infinite stick to 30 fps and no fame drop I have seen till now no lag been any menu and input, red dead redemption 1 work like a charm, code vein work extremely perfect when on xbox one s, Ac Odyssey and Valhalla world loading was fluidity as possible but held back due to xbox 1 hardware. On ps side the ghost recon breakpoint, ghost tsushima, call of duty work fine but my PS4 is to old and with no usb 3 the power from pci ssd was held back but has similar results as from a sata ssd.
The heating was normal since I have a open space for my ps and Xbox so not heating on pci ssd only time I face heating was transferring data of game from hard drive to ssd, but in game play the pci had normal temperature’s but no heating.
Goes to sleep mod if you playing only if you are AFC(Away from console)or pause the game left it there great features but this technical my case features (case name ssk) please
Mohsin –
True Gen 4, works at blazing speed. Does not come with a heatsink though; you wont need one if you are using a good motherboard and they come with heat sink. (Never use these without them). I prefer this over WD SN850 because in Idle it is cool and consumes no power. All these NVMe adds upto the Thermals of the board, so need good airflow. Little lowering of price will make it a greatest of the buys for your build
Ameya P –
Got this product to expand on my laptop. Works as intended, fast at write and read, good value for money
DesiMan –
Read Speed is as mentioned but write speed is slower than mentioned. I have 500 GB as my main storage C drive. Works perfectly fine.
Shrikant Raut –
Seagate has done a great job with this product. I am actually getting speeds advertised on the product itself. It is small and compact with a good amount of space. Loading games and other programs is not an issue at all. Everything runs smoothly on it so far. The warranty on it is pretty great too and hope to see it run for that period. Can’t wait for more releases from Seagate.
PRATEEK SINGH –
Una bestia en lectura y escritura.
No le pongo 5 estrellas porque vale igual que el Samsung 980 pro, que es un poco más rápido. Tengo los dos de hecho y los he probado.
Bharat Terang –
Really good product
Beni –
Acheté au prix fort; dommage que le prix ressemble plus à celui d’un produit alimentaire au marché qui varie de façon aléatoire et parfois dépasse le bon sens.
Garantie bonne, meilleurs cycles en écriture du marché.
Vitesse écriture correcte mais j’attandais vraiment plus. Le boot windows semble plus à un disque SATA. (pour une config materielle au top) Dans les logiciels de tests la propagande et la pub marche bien et correspondent.
Encryptions matérielle correcte.
Bonne impression au niveau matériel.
Longévité à voir dans le temps vu que la chance joue beaucoup et la propagande publicitaire est parfois trompeuse.
Offre software Seagate pour la gestion du disque pauvre.
Il ne faut pas évaluer les produits tiers de clonage ou autres dans le cadre d’une évaluation matérielle d’un disque.
Bharat Terang –
A doubt whether the item is what I paid for, the batch being different and so on. The seller did not give such details on the website, but this an issue of the manufacturer unless these SSD are packed in India.
Framkly, I wont advise buying Firecuda or avoid buying from this seller. It just shows an ‘ I couldn’t care attitude’