Seagate launches a Star Wars SSD - themed beskar ingots from the Mandalorian

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/14/2022 10:20 AM | source: | 8 comment(s)

Seagate has now produced three Mandalorian-themed storage drives. Special Edition Beskar Ingot External hard drives, M.2 NVMe drives, and SATA SSDs are all available as FireCuda devices.

The design is inspired on the beskar ingots shown in the first season of The Mandalorian, and even has the Galactic Empire's symbol.

With the exception of the Star Wars logo, the NVMe SSDs are the Firecuda 530, one of our favorite gaming SSDs. The 530s provide adequate performance but are more costly than comparable M.2 drives such as the WD Black series. That said, those units do not appear as fantastic as these. Beskar is a very durable metal that is utilized to create the armor of the Mandalorians, the planet Mandalore's warrior tribe. He is capable of resisting blaster shots and obstructing lightsabers. The Mandalorian obtains many beskar ingots after successfully satisfying a bounty. Mando then melts the beskar and forges it into some fancy-looking armor before departing to do some Star Wars-related work.

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Repo Man
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#6000729 Posted on: 03/14/2022 11:39 AM

Kinda neat but I'm saving my money for the Crucial Looney Toons range. I need me some of that Daffy Duck heatsink goodness!

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#6000731 Posted on: 03/14/2022 11:40 AM

bet it took all of 5 seconds to design that ssd theme.

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#6000787 Posted on: 03/14/2022 03:36 PM

my first reaction is to scoff like insp1re2600 and Repo Man.
they did it better than me.

but for those folks with exposed M.2 on their mobos, i'm o.k. with that. personally, in that case id rather have a machined metal heatsink (cuz to me it = cool).

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#6000792 Posted on: 03/14/2022 03:47 PM

Kinda neat but I'm saving my money for the Crucial Looney Toons range. I need me some of that Daffy Duck heatsink goodness!

I'm waiting on the Scooby-Doo theme version...

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#6000842 Posted on: 03/14/2022 06:48 PM

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