This has been an effective choice for other familiar brands in the space and Seagate isn’t necessarily taking a risk here with the choice of specs. That said, Seagate is playing it safe with PCIe Gen4 devices in the horizon and has went with a more familiar Phison E12 with Toshiba TLC NAND. Given the form of the FireCuda 510, its friendly to many applications that can take in an M.2 2280 size drive. This means it can easily replace your primary drive for OS and app storage or for most notebook users, their entire drive. Today we’ll take a look at the Seagate FireCuda 510, Seagate’s top end SSD offered in both 1TB and 2TB capacities only.

Seagate offers a similar stack to their HDD lineup with both the Barracuda and FireCuda segments appearing in their SSD lineup. Seagate may be a little late in the SSD game and that’s given them plenty of time to really flesh their tech and segregate their stack for their SSD port folio. But markets evolve and so, too, does storage and none moreso right now with the ever increasing growth of SSD solutions populating the market, bringing prices close the near-HDD price-to-GB ratio. Having battled it out with countless brands, it culminated with only WD and Seagate remaining in the mainstream market. As with most drives, write performance degrades as you fill the drive.Seagate has been one-half of the HDD rivalry that has shaped the industry for years.

Like most consumer drives, the FireCuda 520 features a pseudo-SLC write cache to absorb inbound writes, so these ratings are peak values. Seagate rated the FireCuda 520 to deliver sequential performance results of up to 5.0/4.4 GBps of read/write throughput and up to 760,000/700,000 random read/write IOPS.

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