We take a look at Seagate's new FireCuda 2.5" 2TB SSHD. We compare this drive to a standard SSD as well as a standard HDD. Follow us on Facebook for the latest up to date content - / ggflanparty
The SSD as the OS drive + an SSHD as the storage drive for games and such is correct. Beautiful synergy and is the bread and butter if you're not a "Quad-Zillionaire". However, if you are planning on upgrading your laptop's storage, which for most people have only one drive bay, then the Firecuda 2TB SSHD shown here would be a perfect replacement for most laptop's current standard mechanical drive. However, if money is no object, then by all means, grab that 2TB EVO. Silent, but deadly.
Much more in depth than others out there. Did a lot of testing on various drive and real world tests, not just synthetic testing. Very helpful, thanks!!
I just purchased the seagate firecuda 2tb from amazon came the next day . installed all my games from steam and got to say its a great drive. Well recommend.
Yes i did. Had it a while now keep reading people cussin it off. Ive had no problems with it. Even noticed downloads from Steam quicker. Yesterday i put the same one in my Ps4 Pro. Xcellent upgrade.
I'm so stuck on getting this or an Samsung Evo 1TB. But this firecuda is like $90 versus Samsung is $180. My tech friends keep convincing me that the firecuda IS NOT WORTH the purchase and I might as well get the samsung SSD. They said the firecuda is really slow. Thoughts?
You forgot to mention that the SSHD has a huge cache which means it will actually out perform the SSD over time. It's insanely good and if you can get around to testing out the cache please do as i don't think anybody has actually done that. Will be subscribing as you're aussie :D
Awesome video! I was unsure about going for this SSHD but your real world tests have sold it to me. 2TB SSHD over a 4 TB 7200 rpm regular drive :) And spending all that time doing the tests...kudos! That's dedication right there :)
This is exactly what I was looking for, because I was planning on getting this drive to pair with a m.2 ssd in a mini ITX build. Instead of getting a big capacity ssd to store my media and games, I can save a few hundred dollars to go towards upgrading the gpu from a 1070 to a 1080 and the r5 1600 to the r7 1700.
Thanks so much for your efforts and final words on the comparisons between the drives :) This has helped me decide what I could go for when I want to store many games from my steam library - the firecuda looks and sounds amazing for its price
Not really, they have their use cases but most of the storage uses people are using mechanical spinning disks for won't benefit from the inclusion of flash buffers.
Coffee Jack Yep this drive is great for an NCASE M1. Especially in my case since it's dual radiator water-cooled. Price is nice, and it is a good drive that actually fits with some stick on frames.
A couple things to note; The 2.5" sshd is 5400 rpm and uses SMR! The 3.5" sshd is 7200rpm and uses CMR! I would go for the 3.5". I am rewatching the video, but I dont think this was mentioned. Ive found a used 3.5" firecuda sshd, and I have been poking around for info. Probably gonna use it for a batocera drive.
30 second boot time with an SSD O.o my 850 evo boots in like 4 seconds.. Also, I think this was a great opportunity that was pissed away. I think you should have installed windows, installed all the updates and crap, and then restarted the system at least 30-50 times. Yes there is a program to automate that... THAT is when the SSHD would shine.
I just ordered a 2TB Firecuda since my 1TB 7200 HDD is running low on space. Guess I'll pick up a 120gb SSD for my OS. SSD: OS SSHD: Games / Editing work HDD: Long term storage
Convinced me to get an SSHD for my node 202 upgrade rather than trying to velcro a normal HDD in, thanks heaps man, subbed because you do Aussie prices and seem pretty good at this stuff
Remember that even though its 5400rpm, the platter is smaller than a 7200rpm hdd so read and write speeds are actually better. I saw it for 60 bucks on amazon and grabbed the offer. It's the sort-of best of both worlds. The semi speed of an ssd plus the long term storage of an hhd.
I was going to buy this drive but for me personally, I want fast speed no matter how often or how seldom I use a program. So it was more worth it for me to go with a higher end SSD. But it still looks like a good drive for other needs!
Best set for laptops: - SSD Msata: for OS - SSHD 2.5": for storage SSD for faster boot, load, etc, SSHD for storage, not much more expensive than a traditional HDD.
mSATA is obsolete already. The mainstream is M.2 NVME. Though, I did install msata SSD into my laptop m.2 socket using adapter just because there is not much space for big m.2 drives.
im running a ps4. i wont spend half of what i paid for a ps4 just for the hard drive. the sshd is fine. the couple of seconds difference is not worth the money unless you have cash to blow. either way you go ssd or sshd your still alot better off than the stock hdd
I noticed you did a single test for every every software load speed the sshd. Sshd are supposed to get faster loading time as the controller inside the sshd learns your most frequently use files. I believe that if you repeat the same test several times continuously on the sshd you will see an improvement each time. Could you repeat the same test and compare it to your previous scores? the performance of the sshd should be relatively close to that of the ssd. I am curious to see the results.
You should update this video. I'd be nice if you could compare them all to a M dot 2 (M.2) drive. Also SSHD require a break-in period to offload the most efficient and frequently used data and now that you've used the drive a while it should be good to go.
Hang on! Its a bit unfair the 2.5 firecuda runs @5400rpm BUT the 3.5 sshd firecude runs @7200rpm.??? Still good if you want to upgrade your laptop or ps4
The low ssd speeds on write was very likely you burned out the SLC cache as your running 1gb test 5 times on each one so by the time it got to that 3rd test it was writing to the TLC witch is much slower
One Question!, I have Firecuda 2.5" 2TB, but when I power off this, it sounds stranger, is normal?, your FireCuda sounds same?? if you want i can upload a small video
i think you should have used a 2.5 laptop hard drive that most people would want to replace from a laptop so we could see what kind of upgrade boost we would get
I'm not sure about what I should do. I can replace the ODD in my laptop with the 2TB SSHD with a caddy, but it will be a bit botlenecked by the SATA I 150MB/s controller. This would add cheap extra storage but I have this feeling HDDs are really on their way out and with only 2TB drives as biggest drive choice, it does seem rather small. If only they would make 4 or 5 TB versions of these slim 9.5mm drives it would make a lot more sense to go for cheap HDD storage.
I got this and it’s not being detected in the disk management. It’s found in device manager and in bios but nothing in disk management or in the task manager
Hey, I'm planning to build a SFF pc with 3 of the firecuda drives along with a pcie ssd for the OS. Would that be a good idea or should I stick with a conventional 3.5" drive? The case that I plan on using is the Node 202
Enjoyed your thoughtful presentation. Can you conduct a Raid0 test using the Firecuda 2.5 2TB SSHD ? I would really like to know what the results of such a test would be. Thanks
Dont know if is only me but i formated the drive with 3 partitions everything looks fine until a decide to put in another computer the drive show as RAW i formated again moved and again the drive show as RAW, if i let the drive in one place is working ok but if a decided to move it to another computer even in a usb enclosure lost format and show again in RAW, dont know what to do.
I have a 500GB Nvme SSD as Drive for OS and programs Should I get for games and data storage a 2 TB Seagate FireCuda for $85 or a 2TB Seagate Barracuda Pro for $91.
Did you install the Intel Rapid Storage Technology app I have this app configured on an old Sony Vaio with an Intel 5 series chipset on my old Seagate Momentus XT 750Gb with 8Gb SLC flash chip it's blazing fast!. I'm guessing FireCuda is just a rebranding of the Momentus XT label...
I am playing games at my laptop until it BSOD,when I restart the laptop the drive was gone and not even showing in device manager. Though in bios the drive is present. Hook it in another pc and still the same until on the 3rd diffrent pc it finally showed. Strange is when im playing, game's are installed on my ssd so i can't justify that it was working too hard coz like i said the game's on ssd and all it did was to page file if needed, which is rare due to my laptop having 24 gb of RAM. Do you think its defective? Im afraid to use it now because i almost lost all my data on it.
I purchased this SSHD on basis of your recommendation even though I saw many negative reviews of this drive online that it dies after 6 months to 1 year of usage. And lo and behold my drive died too along with 800gb of critical official data. So while you may have gotten your sponsorship from Seagate. I think it isn't fair to your subscribers or followers that you are putting money over quality
Hey, Great video. Would this Firecuda work for upgrading an original PS4 from 500gb to 2TB? Would it increase performance as well as storage? Thanks in advance!
Hey, i think there's missing one hdd that you should have considered. How about a hdd with a 7200 u/rpm drive? The access speed on 7200 u/rpm hdds could be faster... Maybe you could add to the test a fast hdd (at best a 2.5 drive) mit 7200 u/rpm? Best regards
I assume you disabled the fast startup in windows 10 (a shutdown on Windows 10 is a hibernate shutdown which is not as useful for SSD and especially sshd as the hibernation file will always be different every time it is created when you shut the computer down) where an sshd will shine is once you've actually used it for more than a few months it should stay more consistent then a hdd tends to slow down (not saying it takes months for it to learn what data is accessed just it will not slow down as much compared to a normal hdd) ssds are still best option (I would not recommend anything less then 250gb as you have to keep on moving data or Install applications on the hdd)
I got a SSHD in my system as one of my secondary drives and I'm absolutely loving it. =) Mind you, the firmware of that SSHD is older then the firecuda in this test, so this SSHD is probably even faster as it's written to prioritize things based on access times and not just access frequency like my old SSHD.
Did anybodies firecuda hard drive making a constant clicking noise when they play it in their ps4, because I bought a new firecuda drive, and it started to make clicking noise and it won't stop. Is that normal?
Australian accent for English is kinda hard to understand for my Indonesian ears xD Btw you should add Ark Survival Evolved too for benchmarking loading time, that game installation is like 140 gigabytes, and the game is always bottlenecked at reading the game files from the storage I think. I just upgraded my SSD and moved the Ark install folder to my ssd and I can even crank up the gfx setting now, seems like hdd is the bottleneck and the difference is night and day. Loading time on normal hdd is like 3-4 minutes , while loading from ssd is less than a minute.
Long hdd boot drives are greatly exaggerated by people who don't properly maintain their drives. I have a standard run of the mill 7200 1tb western digital blue drive, and defrag it on a monthly basis, and windows 10 is about a 30 second boot. That being said, I'm still getting a SSHD for my new build, but people really have a misconception of how bad HDD's actually are.
27 seconds to boot off an SSD? My guess, you haven't configured windows or the bios properly if this is the case. I have several systems that boot much faster on SSDs (average 3-5 seconds) and SSHDs (FireCuda boots in 10-15 seconds from bios post). Each drive technology involved has its own performance tweaks that can be done easily by novice users.
I bought a Seagate Firecuda 2TB SSHD in May 2020 and now it has died a death in November, only after 6months! Somehow it is very difficult to recover data from this dead drive as either the drive is not recognised at all, or only empty files come out of the recovery process. Very annoyed! I suspect the technology is not well tested - and I really regret buying it - so be warned!
You really should have compared this to a regular 2.5" laptop drive, and not 3,5" desktop one... this "review" tells next to nothing about how performance will change.
your just testing the basic speed, why are you overlooking what it says if you load and game 2 or 3 times so it transfers to the ssd part. Too simple for that to be considered, since you are kinda overlooking that.
TheFrozenDesert to me he spoke at the right speed. The vid is already 13 mins long, so to not get boring, he's not gonna slow down. If there's a part you didn't understand, just pause, rewatch and google it.