Inside of the PS5, the Seagate FireCuda achieves 6,539 MB/s, making it one of the fastest NVMe drives I’ve ever had my hands on in all my years of testing SSDs. Built for sustained, pro-level gaming and accelerated content creation with transfer speeds up to 2× faster than PCIe Gen3 NVMe SSDs and up to 12× faster than SATA SSDs.

With transfer rates twice the speed than PCIe Gen 3, Seagates FireCuda 530 is designed to provide dependable performance while being able to withstand sustained usage. Rather than operate the flash at 1,600 MTps as we had hoped for and expected, the 530’s flash operates at just 1,200 MTps, based on our software reports. Up to 2x faster than PCIe Gen3 NVMe™ SSDs and up to 12x faster than SATA SSDs — the FireCuda 530 redefines speed.While these slower speeds may seem strange at first sight, this is likely done to ensure reliable and dependable performance under sustained abuse, as the FireCuda 530 comes with a robust warranty and endurance ratings. The Seagate FireCuda 530 is widely available in the US, the UK, and Australia in all capacities with a heatsink. We shall not be liable for any consequential loss including without limitation any loss caused by interruption of your business, loss of electronic information or physical damage to property and whether directly or indirectly caused by any breach of contract or by negligence by us or by any servant or agent of ours. Until property in the goods passes from us the entire proceeds of sale or otherwise of the goods shall be held in trust for us and shall not be mixed with other money or paid into any overdrawn bank account and shall be at all material times identified as our money.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). The FireCuda 530 is compatible with PS5™ consoles, and meets PS5 specs on performance and dimensions. There’s also 176-layer Micron TLC flash memory which few newer drives, such as the Kingston Fury Renegade, also used over two years later. She has also contributed hardware content to the likes of Trusted Reviews, The Metro, Expert Reviews, and Android Central. Aleksha McLoughlin is the Hardware Editor for TechRadar Gaming and oversees all hardware coverage for the site.With its clean label and black PCB, the Seagate FireCuda 530 gets a thumbs up from us in the looks department. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. It’s a similar story with smaller file sizes where the speed of the Seagate Firecuda 530 really shines. I also timed how long it took to boot New World from the drive: 55 seconds from launch until title screen, and roughly 18 seconds from pressing ‘Play’ at the character select screen to dropping into the world for gameplay. Gaming on the PS5 with the Seagate FireCuda 530 is as quick and painless as you would expect, given what’s on the silicon here.