Seagate FireCuda 1 TB Hybrid Hard Drive Review

CrystalDiskMark

We used CrystalDiskMark’s default configuration for our tests, which benchmarked each hard drive using a file size of 1,000 MB with five test runs.

In the sequential read test, the FireCuda performed similarly to the BarraCuda.

In the sequential write test the FireCuda also had the same performance of the BarraCuda.

In the random read test using 512 kiB blocks, the FireCuda was 9% faster than the BarraCuda 1 TB.

Moving on to the random write test using 512 kiB blocks, the FireCuda and the BarraCuda performed the same way.

In the random read test using 4 kiB blocks, the FireCuda also had the same performance of the BarraCuda.

In the random write test using 4 kiB blocks, the FireCuda also performed similarly to the BarraCuda.

In the random read test using 4 kiB blocks and queue depth of 32, the FireCuda was 12% faster than the BarraCuda.

In the random write test using 4 kiB blocks and queue depth of 32, the FireCuda shown the same performance of the BarraCuda.