Seagate FireCuda 540 2TB Gen 5 SSD Review

In our read-throughput tests, the Seagate FireCuda 540 performance climbed smoothly through the block marks until the 1MB mark where the drives performance peaks at 7,700MB/s before dropping sharply back to 5,268MB/s at the 2MB block mark. From this point onwards the drive makes a steady recovery to finish the test run at 7,517MB/s. Both the peak figure and the test end figure are some way off of the official maximum of 10,000MB/s.

Even though the peak read result is nowhere near the official maximum figure, it puts the drive into third place on the results chart behind the two Crucial T700 drives which are using a higher clocked NAND than the Seagate drive.

The write throughput performance is somewhat erratic to look at. At the 4MB block mark, there is a significant drop in the trace but the drive seems to recover very well, with the performance peaking at the 8MB mark at 9,992MB/s before dropping back to finish the test run at 9,787MB/s. As with the read throughput test result these figures are behind the official maximum but the write test result is a lot closer to the official maximum.

The tested peak write result of 9,992MB/s puts the drive in fourth place on our results chart. To give an idea of how much faster the Gen 5 interface is in terms of throughput than Gen 4, the FireCuda 540's score of 9,992MB/s is 4,176MB/s faster than the previous flagship FireCuda drive, the 530.

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