[News] Seagate launches 2TB FireCuda mobile SSHD

[StyM]

http://hexus.net/tech/news/storage/9...a-mobile-sshd/

Seagate has launched a new SATA 6Gb/s hybrid mobile drive, the 2TB FireCuda. This is claimed to be the "fastest, thinnest and lightest 2TB hard drive on the market today". Those are all good things, and Seagate claims it comes at "a great price" too.

So the new 2TB FireCuda is a hybrid, or SSHD, drive that augments its large capacity with 8GB of speedy onboard flash. That's not a great percentage of flash but Seagate claims that its Multi-Tier Caching algorithms "continuously analyse how you use your system," to make sure the most commonly used files are stored in the flash portion of the drive. Beyond the performance perks, the new firmware is optimised to make sure the drive platters spin down when not needed and this feature is promised to "cut your power consumption without sacrificing any performance".

In Seagate's own testing the FireCuda achieved the following performance results:

Versus 2.5-inch 5400RPM/7200RPM HDD

• Game Load Test: 140% Faster/50% faster using PCMark 7 system storage gaming test.
• Application Load Test: 450% Faster/300% faster using PCMark 7 system storage starting applications test.
• Windows 7 Boot Time: 35% Faster/25% faster on an i5 laptop with 8GB of RAM, tested using Microsoft's utility.

[Darakian]

So it's a rebrand of their old hybrid drive with a denser platter. Wooo....
It's 2016, that thing should have a much larger cache than 8GB.