Seagate FireCuda 520, 1TB, Performance Internal SSD, PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe 1.3, for Gaming PC, Gaming Laptop, Desktop, 3 year Rescue Services (ZP1000GM3A002)

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Right off the bat, the Seagate FireCuda 520 shows that it's not only here to take wins off the PCIe 3.Upgrading to the FireCuda 520 unlocks Gen4 speed and supplies up to 9x faster sequential reads than SATA SSDs. Fast sustained throughput is nice, but much of NVMe’s real and perceived speed comes from its super-fast seek times (the time it takes to locate data before transferring it). The new-for-2020 Intel-based Z490 boards that rolled out with the company's 10th Generation "Comet Lake-S" desktop processors don't have support for PCIe 4. We also used CrystalDiskMark, version 7, to test the drive at a couple of the queue depths where most workloads occur.

The advertised specs are interesting; the 5000MB/s read speed is the flagship performance metric (it is printed directly on the box as well) and takes advantage of the PCIe 4.If you're regularly moving files around on your drive from one folder to another, this test is a handy relative throughput measure. drives we've tested it against (lagging once again in a copy test with a large ISO file), however still maintaining a visible lead against PCIe 3. With it, you can migrate your existing data to your new drive, including your OS, but advanced options are locked. While at first these numbers might look low compared to the straight sequential-throughput numbers achieved in benchmarks like Crystal DiskMark 6. SSD slots are only found on AMD motherboards based on the AMD X570 (enthusiast-grade Ryzen), AMD B550 (newer mainstream Ryzen), and AMD TRX40 (high-end Ryzen Threadripper) chipsets.