Seagate FireCuda 540 2TB Gen 5 SSD Review

We used CrystalDiskMark 8‘s custom settings to test the Sequential read and write performance of the drive through a range of queue depths. The setup for the tests is listed below.

128KB Sequential Read / Write.

Transfer Request Size: 128KB, Thread(s): 1, Outstanding I/O: 1-32.

In these tests, the read performance of the drive accelerates between QDs 1 and 2 before levelling off between QD4 and 16 before slowly climbing again to finish the test run at 10,016MB/s.

The write performance does a similar thing but there is no kick-up in performance towards the end of the test run like in the read performance, the drive finishing the test run at 10,163MB/s. Both these figures confirm the official Sequential read/write figure of 10,000MB/s.

128KB Sequential Read v QD compared.

At QD1, the Seagate FireCuda 540 is the fastest consumer drive we've tested to date when it comes to Sequential reads. At QD2 it drops below both the Crucial T700 drives while at QD4 it sits in second place. At QD32 it sits behind the three other Gen 5 drives we've tested to date.

128KB Sequential Write v QD compared.

As with the Sequential read test, the drive tops the Sequential write test at QD1. At QD2 it drops to fourth place but for QD's 4 and 32, it rises to third place.

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