Seagate's Firecuda 530 Gen4 line of solid-state drives are blazing-fast storage devices. They are built for PCI-Express 4, which offers up to twice the bandwidth that PCI-E 3 provided, enabling much faster read and write performance. If you are looking for an entry-capacity drive, this 500GB model is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 7.0GB/s and write speeds up to 3.0GB/s. Real-world speeds will be lower, though, and depend heavily on the application in use.
Model: Seagate ZP500GM30013
Specifications
Capacity | 500 GB |
Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
Form Factor | M.2 2280 |
Endurance (TBW) | 640 TBW |
Peak Power Draw | 5.8 Watts |
Chip Layout | Single Sided |
Net Weight | 0.008 kg (0.0 lbs) |
Performance | |
Sequential Read (Peak) | 7000 MB/s |
Sequential Write (Peak) | 3000 MB/s |
Random 4KB Read | 400,000 IOPS |
Random 4KB Write | 700,000 IOPS |
Throughput is limited to 3000-3300 MB/s when used in a Gen3 M.2 slot