Seagate's Firecuda 520 Gen4 line of solid-state drives is among the first to support PCI-Express 4. In theory this offers twice the bandwidth that PCI-E 3 provided, enabling faster read and write performance - though in reality those are not fully double the speed of older drives. Still, if you need the fastest data transfer rates currently available then this 1TB model has sequential read speeds of up to 5GB/s with write speeds up to 4.4GB/s.
Please note that because this drive is built to take advantage of PCI-Express Gen 4, we only offer it as an option on systems with motherboards that support that PCI-E standard. For configurations with PCI-E Gen 3, there are other SSDs which will work better with that generation of technology.
Please note that because this drive is built to take advantage of PCI-Express Gen 4, we only offer it as an option on systems with motherboards that support that PCI-E standard. For configurations with PCI-E Gen 3, there are other SSDs which will work better with that generation of technology.
Note: Throughput is limited to 3000 MB/s when used in a Gen3 M.2 slot.
Model: Seagate ZP1000GM30002
Specifications
| Capacity | 1,000 GB |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 |
| Endurance (TBW) | 1,800 TBW |
| Peak Power Draw | 10 Watts |
| Net Weight | 0.009 kg (0.0 lbs) |
Performance | |
| Sequential Read (Peak) | 5,000 MB/s |
| Sequential Write (Peak) | 4,400 MB/s |
| Random 4KB Read | 760,000 IOPS |
| Random 4KB Write | 700,000 IOPS |
