Seagate FireCuda 520N 1TB SSD Review

We took note of the drive’s temperature during some of our benchmarking runs.

The Seagate FireCuda 520N doesn't have any type of  heat spreader installed. To test the drive we used a Sabrent EC-PCIE enclosure which comes with its own aluminium heatsink and thermal padding to help keep any drive inside cool. The hottest the drive got was when it was being pushed hard during the CrystalDiskMark 8 default write and the Sequential T1 write tests where the drive hit 46° C, 24° under the quoted 70° C maximum operating temperature. For the non-4 K tests the drive averaged 37°C while for the 4K-based tests, the average was 35°C.

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