Seagate is getting into PCIe Gen5 SSD race with its FireCuda 540 drives that promise to offer performance that is on par with some of the best SSDs out there and which by far surpasses that of PCIe Gen4 drives. In addition to up 1.5M IOPS and up to 10 GB/s sequential read and write speeds, the FireCuda 540 devices also promise to offer endurance and reliability that we come to expect from Seagate.
Seagate's FireCuda 540 2TB SSD is rated for an up to 10,000 MB/s sequential read/write speeds as well as up to 1.5 million random IOPS, according to early listings at Amazon UK and B&H in the U.S. (discovered by @momomo_us). The drive is rated for an up to 2,000 terabytes to be written (TBW) over its warranty period of five years, which is a bit higher than 1,400 TBW endurance featured by competing PCIe Gen5 SSDs. In addition to higher endurance rating, the drive comes bundled with a three-year subscription to Seagate's Rescue data recovery service.
