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Guru3D.com » News » Seagate to release 2TB SSHD and 5TB HDD in 2.5" form-factor

Seagate to release 2TB SSHD and 5TB HDD in 2.5" form-factor

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/13/2016 05:44 PM | source: | 24 comment(s)
Seagate to release 2TB SSHD and 5TB HDD in 2.5

Seagate announces that they will release a 2.5″ Solid State Hybrid Disk (SSHD) holding a capacity of 2TB and a 8GB NAND cache. The company will also release a 5TB HDD in the same form-factor.

The SSHD is part of Seagate’s FireCuda series, the HDD part of the BarraCuda series. The FireCuda SSHD thanks to its smaller form factor will fit in laptops. The 5TB HDD not so much though as its height is 15mm. Seagate embeds a NAND cache of 8GB. The cache would be managed by an algorithm that stores the most frequently used files in the NAND  flash memory. The 5TB is a bit slow, it spins at 5,400 RPM and has a specified maximum write speed of 140MB/s.

Let’s get straight to it. Productivity, creativity and even gaming have been transformed over the last decade thanks to the mobile revolution. One striking example – the amazing photos people take today were not even possible 10 years ago. The same is true of video and other forms of artistic expression and entertainment. And when it comes to professional productivity, there are countless, well researched studies that show how we have become far more prolific in our chosen professions because of what the mobile revolution has enabled.

With these changes comes the ability to store everything in the cloud. And while we love what that enables, if you’re a technology enthusiast, an avid gamer, a creative professional or simply your family’s resident photographer (like many of us here at Seagate), you still want to take your digital stuff with you wherever you go. Which is why Seagate is pleased to announce the availability of two of our most advanced mobile consumer drives yet -- the 5TB mobile BarraCuda and the 2TB FireCuda. Both products are based on Seagate’s breakthrough 2.5 inch 1TB platters introduced in January.

The BarraCuda mobile offers best-in-class versatility, performance and reliability for nearly every mobile PC compute need and application. However, as consumers ourselves, we want flexibility in how we store and move our data, which is why we are offering internal and external storage options for this drive – a super thin 7mm mobile or laptop upgrade design and a 15mm design for external solutions, both at the best price point per terabyte and millimeter compared to competitive storage options. So, if you’re an enthusiast builder and tinkerer, go ahead and do your own upgrade – it’s simple and easy. If you’re all about the content and don’t like to mess with the tech, all you need to do is plug in and you’re off and running.

FireCuda, meanwhile, represents the fastest, thinnest and lightest 2TB hard drive on the market today. Not only does it offer unmatched performance and capacity at a great price, it includes some great new technology we’re really excited about.

First, FireCuda uses 8GB of flash to enable lightning quick boot times, blazing application starts, and dominating game load speed. While we’re proud of this performance, we agree these are table stakes nowadays. Which is why we want to give you a quick peak under the hood, because that’s where this drive gets really interesting.

That 8GB of onboard flash? We designed new firmware that allows it to take over data storage and management for system tasks and applications-in-use, allowing the platters to spin down and cut your power consumption without sacrificing any performance. We’ve also developed highly sophisticated caching algorithms that continuously analyze how you use your system. These algorithms then get to work tweaking every aspect of FireCuda’s operations so that the drive is always perfectly synchronous with the unique way you work and play. We call it Multi-Tier Caching and it would be like owning a smart car that continuously tunes itself up as you drive – always performing at peak efficiency for the task at hand.

Both BarraCuda mobile and FireCuda are new entries in the recently launched Guardian SeriesTM of highly engineered storage solutions, which you can read more about on our web site. And while you’re at it, go ahead and do a Google search – we’re confident you’ll like what you see.

Oh… one more thing. BarraCuda mobile comes with a 2-year limited warranty and FireCuda is backed by an industry leading 5-year limited warranty. So we’ve got you covered if you ever have a problem. We hope you enjoy these new products. 

Seagate has not released any pricing on these units, neither an actual release date. 



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#5345597 Posted on: 10/13/2016 11:35 PM
Only had 1 HDD fail on me (from all my Seagate drives) and it was somehow expected.

Had 2 1.5TB HDD's inside of my PC, 1 for data that's important (which I regularly back-upped to a 4TB HDD) and 1 as a HDD to basically constantly write data to from shadowplay, ... so it had quite a huge workload of X Gigabytes a day at 1 point in terms of writes.

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#5345707 Posted on: 10/14/2016 07:22 AM
I have a 500GB version of these in my PS3. Works reasonably well, loads quicker.

But this product here is complete garbage. 8GB cache on 2TB of space? Come on. By the time you re-access whatever you need to load quicker, the cached version will be long gone. Just too small. Needs like a 64 or 128GB SSD on board to be useful.

Apart from Seagate being Seagate who on earth came with the idea of 8GB cache? 8GB?!?!Seriously? In this day and age? I really like the idea of SSHDs but wouldn't go for smaller than 64 GB cache.I know that 95% corporate users would be super happy about it but I wouldn't. And it would cost them very little to put at least 32gigs in.

I agree, 8GB of NAND doesn't seem enough to effectively accelerate a 2TB drive full of data & programs. Anyway, this has been done before with other drives dating all the way back to something like maybe 2011 if I recall correctly, and performance increases were never stellar (except for boot speeds) - it was always concluded that these SSHD drives needed more NAND to be effective, and I don't think the 8GB NAND on this drive is gonna be enough. Besides, you can use Intel Storage Technology to accelerate an HDD by using an SSD as a cache, and in that instance you have a lot larger cache sizes at your disposal (does mean an extra drive though).

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#5345708 Posted on: 10/14/2016 07:23 AM
It's Seagate, so I'll pass. I don't want crap that breaks after 3 years of use.


I had 3 Seagate HDDs 2 of them had some firmware issue, back in 2008 this was a big fuse since 2/3 of this HDD Type died worldwide. One HDD died after 2 years. All 3 HDDs where in warranty so i RMAed them. The 3 replacement HDDs are still running
techpowerup.com_Seagate-offers-firmware-fix

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#5345738 Posted on: 10/14/2016 10:26 AM
A 64Gb NAND chip is probably dirt cheap these days and thus excellent for Seagate to use in the product.

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#5345839 Posted on: 10/14/2016 03:28 PM
Very annoying they aren't using more flash or making multiple models with more flash. I would gladly pay $50 more than what my 1TB SSHD cost a couple years ago for one with 64GB of flash. The new PS4 Pro is more or less confirmed to have Sata3 so it makes sense to put an SSD in it (compared to the old Sata2 PS4) My recommendation to anyone wanting to replace their PS4/PS4 Pro HDD is to opt for a 7200rpm drive that will fit the chassis rather than a 5400rpm 8GB SSHD as overall the performance will be better. Of course an SSD is the most preferred option.

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