Seagate Lightsaber Collection Special Edition FireCuda 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.

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

128KB Sequential Read / Write.

The best Sequential read figure we saw in this test of 7,220.57MB/s is a little short of the official maximum of 7,300MB/s. The best write test figure of 6,878.49MB/s is closer to the official best of 6,900MB/s.

128KB Sequential Read Performance v QD compared.

At QD1, the Seagate Lightsaber Collection Special Edition FireCuda sits near the bottom of the results chart, just behind the standard version of the Seagate FireCuda 530. As the queue depth deepens both drives climb slowly up the results chart.

128KB Sequential Write Performance v QD compared.

At queue depths 1 and 2, the Seagate Lightsaber Collection Special Edition FireCuda sits below the standard FireCuda 530 which is the basis for the Special Edition drive. However, as the queue depth deepens further the drives swap places with the Special Edition drive becoming the fastest.

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