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Seagate
Seagate FireCuda
500GBHDD2.5"PCIe Gen 35yr warranty
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Full Specifications
Performance, endurance, NAND architecture, thermals, and compatibility.
TypeHDD
Capacity500 GB
Form Factor2.5"
InterfaceSATA 6.0 Gb/s
PCIePCIe 3.0
NVMeNo
Warranty5 years
About This Product
The Seagate FireCuda 500GB is a 2.5-inch SATA 6.0 Gb/s hybrid hard drive (SSHD). It combines a small NAND flash cache with a traditional HDD platter for improved boot and application load times compared to standard HDDs. While faster than a pure HDD, it offers significantly lower performance than similarly priced SATA SSDs, especially for sustained writes or large file transfers.
