[PR] Seagate Breathes Life into Gaming Rigs with New FireCuda 120 500 GB, 1 TB, 2 TB, and 4 TB SATA SSDs

[Tsing]

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Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in data solutions, today announced the new FireCuda® 120 SATA SSD designed for gamers who require speed, durability, and generous capacity to reach their peak performance and safeguard their vast digital libraries.



Underpinning the company’s line of PC game storage, the FireCuda 120 takes gaming rigs to the next level with a SATA 6GB/s interface and roars to life with sequential read/write speeds of up to 560/540MB/s offering more responsive downloads, installs, and multitasking. The drive has capacities up to 4TB, Seagate’s highest capacity gaming SSD yet. Meeting the demands of sustained abuse, the FireCuda 120 was built for durability, delivering a 1.8M hour MTBF and up to 5600 TBW. For total peace of mind, Seagate...

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[standonhead]

Is this some kind of joke, $105 for 500 GB and it isn't even NVME? Apparently they need to do more drug testing at Seagate because no one in their right mind is going to buy that.

 

[Riccochet]

Was thinking the same thing. Pretty sure I only paid about $128 each for my 960GB Corsair MP510's.

 

[theblackangus]

So is this a typo?
...FireCuda 120 takes gaming rigs to the next level with a SATA 6GB/s interface...
Don't most consumer motherboards still use SATA 3? Which is 6 Gb/s which is a far cry from 6 GB/s?
And why so expensive for a SATA drive? Are these SLC/MLC or something?

 

[Brian_B]

But but ... it's a cross between a fire and a cuda. Just add the footprint gas pedal.