Seagate Lightsaber Collection Special Edition FireCuda Review

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure the theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using v8.0.

In CrystalDiskMark's QD1 1 Thread test, the Lightsaber Collection Special Edition FireCuda is slightly slower than the standard FireCuda 530 for both reads and writes.

With CrystalDiskMark 8 could also confirm the official Sequential maximum performance read figure for the drive of 7,300MB/s with a test result of 7,379MB/s. The best-tested write figure of 6,886MB/s also confirms the official best of 6,900MB/s.

Using the Peak Performance Profile of CrystalDiskMark 8 we could once again confirm the official Sequential read/write ratings for the drive with best test results of 7,401MB/s for reads and 6,895MB/s for writes.

The official maximum 4K random read/write figures for the 2TB Seagate Lightsaber Collection Special Edition FireCuda are up to 1,000,000 IOPS for both. Using the Peak Performance Profile (which gives an IOPS result in the benchmark screen) the best-read figure we saw from the drive using the default test was 762,829.83 IOPS with writes at 640,765.62 IOPS. Using the compressed data test, we got a bit more out of the drive with a 772,250.49 IOPS figure for reads and 648,842.04 IOPS for writes.

Using the Real World profile, the drive produced Sequential read/write figures of 4,270MB/s and 5,844MB/s respectively. Both these figures are off the pace of the standard Seagate FireCuda 530.

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