To be fair, there isn’t a lot in the way of PCIe 4 hardware out there at the moment (all late-gen AMD), so we haven’t really been able to kick the fourth-generation tires thoroughly. Go further with a gaming SSD built for industry-leading speed, sustained abuse, lowest latency and superior gaming. This gaming drive is out-of-the-box compatible with the latest generation of powerful AMD Ryzen™ processors. Finance is only available to permanent UK residents aged 18+, subject to status, terms and conditions apply. If on the other hand, you’re one of the vast majority stuck back on plain ‘ole PCIe 3 (sigh), the FireCuda 520 is still worth considering as a premium drive.

Fast sustained throughput is nice, but much of NVMe’s real and perceived speed comes from its super-fast seek times (the time it takes to locate data before transferring it). A Rescue Data Recovery Services plan is available for purchase when you register your FireCuda drive. Intel, the Intel Logo, Intel Inside, Intel Core, and Core Inside are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U. This controller features a DRAM-based architecture, so it comes paired with DDR4 memory for FTL caching. I vaguely remember that happening a couple of years ago with a couple of manufactures such as Adata, Crucial, WD or even Samsung.Furthermore, Seagate offers Rescue Data Recovery Services plans for purchase when you register your FireCuda drive.

Here the drive falls right in line with its overall results from the PCMark 10 run, scoring comfortably above the Corsair MP600 and just slightly below the TeamGroup drive when launching Windows 10. Please be advised of our data usage for machine learning and AI inference and training purposes which can be found here along with our other editorial and copyright policies.SSD we have looked at in our new series of SSD reviews, and we have high-performance expectations as a result. Pair a 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen Desktop Processor (not included) with this FireCuda ZP1000GM3A002 SSD for the ultimate PC gaming combination.