When she isn't working, you'll often find her in mosh pits at metal gigs and festivals or listening to whatever new black and death metal has debuted that week. The FireCuda 530 is compatible with PS5™ consoles, and meets PS5 specs on performance and dimensions. Hopefully supply will start catching up with demand relatively soon, though with the way the gaming PC space has been progressing lately, I won’t hold my breath.

Seagate has installed 176-layer TLC NAND flash on the FireCuda 530, the flash chips are made by Micron. While our recent review of Crucial’s P5 Plus gave us another perspective on this new flash with a different controller, it was apparent that to truly unlock the potential of Micron’s new flash, Phison’s E18 NVMe SSD controller was needed. You shall not pledge or in any way charge by way of security for any indebtedness any of the goods which are our property. Without knowing the particular application for which you require our goods and the exact specification and configuration of any existing system into which you intend to install our goods we cannot and do not warrant the suitability of any of our goods for your particular purpose. Additionally, the controller is built on a 12nm process to ensure cool operation, although the controller also supports ASPM and ASPT, and L1.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.

Gamer Network Limited, Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom, registered under company number 03882481. The Seagate FireCuda 530 launched back in 2020, around the same time as the PS5, making it a frontrunner to slot into Sony’s system.Packaging could be better, one small box in one slightly bigger box - no padding means the potential for damage increases. Finance is only available to permanent UK residents aged 18+, subject to status, terms and conditions apply. net is owned by Gamer Network Limited, a ReedPop company and subsidiary of Reed Exhibitions Limited. Built using such a robust controller in combination with thirty-two 512Gb dies of Micron’s production-grade 176L replacement gate TLC flash, the FireCuda 530 was made to perform. Please note the above quotation is an indicative cost and actual monthly payments may vary by +/- 2p per month.