Tuesday, May 26th 2020
Seagate Announces FireCuda 120 SATA SSD for Gamers
Seagate Technology plc., a world leader in data solutions, today announced the new FireCuda 120 SATA SSD designed for gamers who require speed, durability, and generous capacity to reach their peak performance and safeguard their vast digital libraries.
Underpinning the company's line of PC game storage, the FireCuda 120 takes gaming rigs to the next level with a SATA 6 Gb/s interface and roars to life with sequential read/write speeds of up to 560 MB/s reads and up to 540 MB/s writes, offering more responsive downloads, installs, and multitasking. The drive has capacities up to 4 TB, Seagate's highest capacity gaming SSD yet. Meeting the demands of sustained abuse, the FireCuda 120 was built for durability, delivering a 1.8M hour MTBF and up to 5600 TBW. For total peace of mind, Seagate backs the drive with a five-year limited warranty.
With capacities of 500 GB ($104.99), 1 TB ($199.49), 2 TB ($388.49), and 4 TB ($650.99), Seagate's FireCuda 120 SSD is available now.
For more information, visit this page.
Underpinning the company's line of PC game storage, the FireCuda 120 takes gaming rigs to the next level with a SATA 6 Gb/s interface and roars to life with sequential read/write speeds of up to 560 MB/s reads and up to 540 MB/s writes, offering more responsive downloads, installs, and multitasking. The drive has capacities up to 4 TB, Seagate's highest capacity gaming SSD yet. Meeting the demands of sustained abuse, the FireCuda 120 was built for durability, delivering a 1.8M hour MTBF and up to 5600 TBW. For total peace of mind, Seagate backs the drive with a five-year limited warranty.
For more information, visit this page.
19 Comments on Seagate Announces FireCuda 120 SATA SSD for Gamers
I would rather buy a 860 EVO for $50 less in the 1TB category.
I know it has lower TBW, but you really need 5600 TBW? If you write 50GB daily, that means 18.25TB/year and honestly write 50GB is a lot.
I wrote 77.8TB in my SSD in 1 1/2 year.
I'm only using Samsung EVO/Pro if customer specifically asks for it.
Most of their comparable models also come with a 5-year warranty.
Personally, the only issues I had with SSDs in general are the older Phison-based drives (Kingston and Crucial mostly), and newer Team Group NVME stuff. Everything else seems more than adequate for any consumer application even if it comes with only 3 years of warranty. Heck, my XP941 is still alive and kicking (bought it used in 2014), my very first SSD from Sandisk is working just fine with 98% resource left(2013). For low-budget upgrades I'm using the cheapest-of-the-cheap Patriot and Goodram SSDs, and since 2016 there hasn't been a single failure or issue.That's one helluva price for a SATA SSD... More expensive $/GB than some TLC NVME offerings...
But with recent SSD/memory price conundrum it shot up nearly 30% in price in the past few months.