Seagate's new hybrid drive raises some old questions
The FireCuda Forge revisits an old idea, with some familiar questions.
Seagate has introduced a new hybrid drive, the FireCuda Forge, which blends the high capacity of a conventional hard disk drive (HDD) with the speed of a user-provided solid-state drive (SSD). The company launched this storage solution on Tuesday, and it is powered and managed by their new Alkemi intelligent storage platform. The FireCuda Forge is currently available on Seagate's website for purchase, with options for 8TB and 20TB HDD configurations, but not including the necessary SSD.
Users are required to provide their own M.2 2280 NVMe drive that supports PCIe Gen3 or higher, with a maximum capacity of 1TB. The NVMe drive must deliver minimum read and write speeds of 2,400MB/s and 2,000MB/s respectively and ideally feature DRAM cache for optimal performance. Seagate asserts that the combined FireCuda Forge system will achieve speeds of 2,500MB/s read and 2,000MB/s write.
Additionally, the drive boasts USB4 compatibility and is compatible with both Windows 11 and macOS 10.16+.
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