

Surprisingly, though, the company still left some performance on the table in its implementation. It also features XTS-AES 256-bit encryption that is enabled by default without user authentication and will prevent threat actors from reading data directly from NAND.īuilt using such a robust controller in combination with thirty-two 512Gb dies of Micron’s production-grade 176L replacement gate TLC flash, the FireCuda 530 was made to perform. It also comes with end-to-end data path protection, Trim support, and S.M.A.R.T. Furthermore, in terms of features, Seagate’s FireCuda 530 comes outfitted with Phison’s robust SmartECC engine, which leverages a fourth-generation Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) ECC. Also noteworthy is the fact that the thermal protection limit has been raised from 70C to 90C. It utilizes an eight-channel PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe 1.4-compliant design to interface with all the flash, and interfaces with two 8Gb SK hynix DDR4 DRAM IC at speeds of 1,600MHz to accelerate FTL access for low-latency mapping table addressing and wear-leveling.Īdditionally, the controller is built on a 12nm process to ensure cool operation, although the controller also supports ASPM and ASPT, and L1.2, along with thermal throttle protection as well. The E18 features a penta-core, DRAM-based architecture, with the primary cores clocking 1GHz. With Phison’s PS5018-E18 powering it, the FireCuda 530 boasts high-ranking performance capability that should run even faster now that it is paired with Micron’s newest flash. No competitor offers such robust protection. While that is impressive, to say the least, what is even more impressive is the fact that the FireCuda 530 comes with three years of Rescue Data Recovery Services on top, to protect your precious data against unexpected data loss when traditional means fail. The 2TB model we are testing today is rated to sustain up to 2,550 terabytes of writes within its five-year warranty, and the 4TB is rated for up to a robust 5,100 TB of writes. Seagate backs the FireCuda 530 with rather high endurance ratings, more than twice that of the average Samsung or WD SSD. Furthermore, the FireCuda 530 is rated to deliver upwards of 1,000,000/1,000,000 random read/write IOPS at its largest capacities. The larger capacities are rated to deliver sequential speeds of up to 7.3/6.9 GBps read/write, and even the smallest capacity is rated for read speeds of up to 7GBps. The heatsink-less models are priced at roughly $0.24 per GB, while the models including a heatsink cost roughly $0.25-$0.32 per GB. Seagate’s FireCuda 530 comes in capacities of 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB.
