Seagate FireCuda 510 Gaming SSD, 500 GB, Up to 3450 MB/s, 600k IOPS, 3D TLC NAND, PCIe Gen3 ×4, NVMe 1.3 Solid State Drive, and Three-year Rescue Services (ZP500GM3A001)

I have just bought one off your sshd drives. I would just like to say how disappointed I am with it the performance is, worse then my old hard drive this cannot be right I am sending some data for my seagate ST2000LX001, 2 TB FireCuda Gaming SSHD 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Hybrid Drive and my old WD Black 1TB the old drive out performs the firecuda by lots. I bought this drive thinking I was getting a fast hard drive and this is not caseSeagate FireCuda 2.5" 2TB-£8613,836 User benchmarks, average bench 47%2TB freeFirmware: SDM1SusWrite @10s intervals: 102 111 108 107 108 109 MB/s Performing as expected (45th percentile)44.9%AverageRead 48.7Write 76.4Mixed 59.7SusWrite 10854% 73.1 MB/s4K Read 1.14K Write 1.34K Mixed 1181% 1.13 MB/sWD Black 1TB (2010)-£119124,651 User benchmarks, average bench 57%850GB freeFirmware: 05.01D05SusWrite @10s intervals: 131 133 132 134 133 133 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96th percentile)76.7%Very goodRead 135Write 130Mixed 106SusWrite 13293% 126 MB/s4K Read 1.24K Write 1.74K Mixed 0.8170% 1.23 MB/s

This is a good Hard Drive and the issues are PlayStations fault I believe. BUT!! SeaGate have claimed here that it is indeed compatible with PS4 Without further details, so calling out for any other potential buyers like myself.I have the first version of the PS4 pro. I am also an experienced person with upgrading memory in computers and playstations. I successfully installed this drive and it was working fine for two months, until I started getting an error saying PS4 couldn’t start ( see picture). Followed every single tutorial I could find to resolve this without taking out the drive as I couldn’t bear having to download Modern Warfare AGAIN!!! I even tried using safe mode to reformat the disc and start from scratch, but simply the PS4 Pro decided it didn’t like the hard drive anymore. The resolution was to put back the original drive and start from scratch.After this series of events, I have done my research a bit deeper and the outcome is that superior drives like this FireCuda are absolutely pointless to install into a PS4, because it can’t do any of the faster speeds offered. 7200... nope! The PlayStation architecture isn’t as welcoming to hard discs as a computer. So paying for a superior hard disk like this is pointless to install into your PS4. Use it as an external drive, yes! But internal no.It now lives on in an external enclosure for my MAC.

Bought this to replace a corrupted internal drive on a day one PS4 ..easy to fit doubled the storage ..once fitted gave about 850GB of space its early days.. I found the product adapted intiallly "slow" but with use an improved speed of system which was an added bonus at great price it is a hybid drive "abit"of SSD and HDD..just if you are purchasing an internal drive it needs to be 2.5 inches/whatever metric?..really easy to change an PS4 as Sony designed the console to upgraded drive with nothing else but alittle knowledge and a philips screwdriver

Bought one initially for the original PS4, installed no problem and was up and running fairly quickly. Then after a couple of hours usage, it crashed and was told basically to re-install everything. Luckily everything was backed up. Did it all again and the same thing happened. Contacted Seagate and they told me to try their diagnostic software to test it through a PC. Good job I knew how to do this :). Anyway it failed the tests. Got a replacement and before I installed it into the PS4 I used Seagates software to test it. Passed all tests. Great, installed and setup the PS4 all over again. After a few hours of use it crashed again, tested with Seagate and passed all tests still. Think these are not 100% compatible with all PS4's versions, some people have been lucky, I haven't. Had to send this one back and going to try another type of SSD.

I've attempted to buy an nvme before and tried two Adata ones that were highly recommended due to speed and price but both the initial purchase and replacement refused to work in my B450 MSI motherboard despite updating the bios.I figured the port was probably damaged and got a standard ssd instead but I recently started running out of room and figured I'd try again with a different, better brand. Ultimately I figured I could just return it if it didn't work and get another ssd.It worked straight out of the box, no issues at all and no bios changes.Since it worked, I decided to put my windows 10 on it and start again. I didn't think there would be much difference but regardless, its now my fastest drive so why not?I've never been one for straight up numbers test and prefer real life values. Well.... My pc boots up faster (3.5 seconds vs 6 seconds) and I tested some notoriously long load games with it too. GTA 5 is much faster than ssd in particular, Forza 5 Horizon is also much faster.Weirdly enough as well... League of Legends ping has gone down.... This obviously shouldn't happen off a hard drive but I've had a longstanding issue between my test ping being 18ms and my actual ping in game going all the way up to 45ms. It was annoying the hell out of me to the point I reinstalled my entire pc before to try and fix it after trying everything else and it still didn't help. Then I play on nvme and suddenly it's half the ping at 26ms... I don't get it. Drivers, installs etc all the same... Sure its not 18ms like it should be but its much better than it was.In terms of heat, I don't know quite honestly. My motherboard has the nvme slot underneath my graphics card so it's hard to check but it does mean I can't get a heatsink on it.