Seagate Firecuda 520 500GB Performance Internal Solid State Drive SSD PCIe Gen4 X4 NVMe 1.3 for Gaming PC Gaming Laptop Desktop (ZP500GM3A002)

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Pros

This drive runs much cooler than my samsung 970 evo plus using the msi motherboard heat sink. Ekb are well known to be one of the best if not thee best in the water cooling space in the pc market. The firecuda 530 has no overheating entries logged in ... Read More

Ps5 clocks the drive at 6,700 mb/s though the ps5 tool for benchmarking is known to not be very accurate so i suspect it’s much higher as this drive has no problem hitting 7,000mb/s in my pc. Took less than 5min to install into my ps5. Long-term value... Read More

The easiest way to get the card in is to lay it flat in the compartment and slide it into the socket.

Everything runs great, apps and games open smoothly and without delay. No issues whatsoever.

This is the fastest drive i've seen so far to date. Game startups are faster. This drive is very fast for a spinning disk getting 250 mb/s steady and burst of 500.

Cons

The evo drive is even faster than this seagate. I wonder if the overtly positive reviews come from those who didn't test the speed. Seems to be a compatibility issue with not being detected during post when restarting.

Wasted my money. Not even for $0. Buyer beware on this.

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Quality

This is a great upgrade for the ps5 and i would highly recommend to anyone with the dough!

Ive done tons of research on whats the best ssd for the ps5.

I did a lot of research on ssd's for the ps5 and this one got pretty decent reviews.

Awesome and needed with all the games, especially with the new ps plus games.

Price

Easy to install and the price has improved considerably.

The price when compared to the few similar options is great.

Shipping

This is so fast idk what to do.

Packaging/appearance

I installed this pretty quickly into the ps5 and it works great.

Moving games unto it goes so much quicker than when i moved games to the external hard drive i have attached to the ps5.

Honestly the hardest part was taking the panel off the ps5 to get to the memory slot.

What i've noticed when i play games from the firecuda, games run slightly smoother and game startups are faster.

Competitiveness

I highly recommend this for a ps5 or any other system that uses this produce.

I transferred 5 ps5 games (including 2 cod: cold war & vanguard ps5 versions) to this drive in under 7 mins.

I attempted to install this on a dell optimplex 990 as a gpt secondary data only drive in addition to two existing 1tb drives a... Read More

2 pcie gen4 ×4 nvme and a ekwb cooling heatsink out of the box is an excellent match from my perspective.

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This product had a total of 4,252 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 18 2022.