Seagate Confirms FireCuda 530 Ready for PlayStation 5

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The new Seagate FireCuda 530 NVMe m.2 PCIe Gen 4 SSD delivers blazingly fast speeds and is compatible with Sony’s PS5.

We’ve known about Seagate’s next generation NVMe m.2 PCIe SSD for a while now, and it looks great. It could become one of the best SSDs in Australia. The FireCuda 530 is twice as fast as the Gen 3 FireCuda 520. You can expect 7300MB / s sequential read and 6900MB / s sequential write. That’s well beyond the minimum requirement of the PlayStation 5.

In fact, the internal SSD of the PS5 boots at 5500MB / s, but can reach 9000MB / s with compressed files. As such, gamers had assumed that the FireCuda 530 would be PS5 compatible when it launched in August 2021. This can now be confirmed.

A few moments ago, I came out of a briefing with Seagate where they introduced me to the next FireCuda range. I’ve written about how keen gamers can upgrade their PS5 storage before, so I sweated over more info on the options. Jeff Park, National Director of Seagate Technology, ANZ, confirmed the good news to me.

We have carried out tests with Sony on the PlayStation 5 and today we can confirm that the FireCuda 530 with heatsink meets all the requirements of the PS5. With the PS5 design, the SSD card slot is very narrow, so there is not much room for mounting the SSD. However, with the FireCuda 530 – even with the heatsink on top – the slim design allows it to fit. Of course, the FireCuda 530 without a heatsink is thinner, so both will fit the PS5.

– National Director for Seagate Technology, ANZ, Jeff Park

FireCuda 530 ready for PS5 expansion slot in August

The timing could also be perfect. Sony is dragging its feet to activate the hard drive expansion slot on the PlayStation 5. The console launched with a pathetic 667 GB of usable disk space, which filled up very quickly – Call of Duty at it alone greatly exceeds 200 GB.

While there are other upgrade options, many of the console’s best features have to do with its hard drive speed. Therefore, gamers want to upgrade their PS5 console with internal Gen 4 NVMe m.2 SSD.

With Sony hinting that the expansion slot could be unlocked before the end of August, and the FireCuda 530 due out in August, the planets seem to be lining up nicely.

In Australia, the FireCuda 530 will be available in four capacities, with and without a heat sink. Here are the Australian prices for each model:

500 GB	$ 199
500 GB (with heat sink)	$ 239
1 TB	$ 349
1TB (with heat sink)	$ 399
2 TB	$ 729
2TB (with heat sink)	$ 819
4 TB	$ 1,429
4TB (with heat sink)	$ 1,499

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