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Smart Wizard
Get a complete build plan based on budget and goals.
Build Comparison
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Part Comparison
Check specs, price, and value across parts.
Bottleneck Calculator
Measure CPU and GPU balance before you buy.
Power Calculator
Estimate wattage and PSU headroom.
Will It Run?
Test your hardware against popular games.
Smart Wizard
Get a complete build plan based on budget and goals.
Build Comparison
Compare complete builds side by side.
Part Comparison
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Will It Run?
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Seagate

Performance, endurance, NAND architecture, thermals, and compatibility.
| Merchant | Price | $/GB | Availability |
|---|
| Total |
|---|
Newegg | $229 | $0.229 | In Stock | $229 | Buy |
About This Product
The Seagate FireCuda 520 is a 1TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 2280 SSD. It offers sequential read/write speeds that are competitive with other early PCIe Gen4 drives, making it suitable for high-performance gaming and demanding applications. While faster than PCIe Gen3 drives, it is surpassed in raw speed by newer PCIe Gen4 SSDs.
Verdict
βGood for users needing fast storage on a PCIe Gen4 platform.β
Performance, endurance, NAND architecture, thermals, and compatibility.
Sequential, random, and sustained speeds.
Sequential Read
5,000 MB/s
Sequential Write
4,400 MB/s
4K Random Read
760K IOPS
4K Random Write
700K IOPS
How long the drive lasts under sustained writes.
TBW (lifetime writes)
1,800 TB
Drive Writes/Day
0.99 DWPD
calculated from TBW
MTBF
1.8M hours
Warranty
5 years
Controller, NAND, and cache β what most retailers don't show you.
DRAM Cache
Yes
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