Seagate has been advertising their gaming-focused storage merchandise underneath the FireCuda model over the previous few years. With a deal with efficiency, these merchandise have sometimes been flash-based and/or cater to the high-bandwidth peripherals market utilizing Thunderbolt. Today, the corporate is introducing a few new hard-drive-based merchandise specializing in capability and the side that avid gamers appear to like (based mostly on market demand) – RGB lighting.
The FireCuda Gaming Hard Drive is a 2.5″ bus-powered exterior HDD full with RGB lighting (customizable utilizing Seagate’s Toolkit software program in addition to Razer Chroma). It is on the market in capacities of 1TB, 2TB, and 5TB with MSRPs of $80, $110, and $180 respectively. Street costs are decrease, as could be seen from product listings on-line.
Similar to Seagate’s present bus-powered exterior HDD lineup, the brand new FireCuda Gaming Hard Drive additionally sports activities a USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps) Micro-B interface. While we have not acquired official affirmation but, it’s probably that the brand new drives are additionally SMR-based just like the Seagate Backup Plus line. One of the fascinating worth additions is the inclusion of Rescue Data Recovery providers for 3 years along with the one 12 months guarantee.
The FireCuda Gaming Hub will develop into obtainable out there slightly later – This is a full-fledged 3.5″ HDD in a RGB enclosure. It must be externally powered, which additionally permits the product to hold front-facing USB-C and USB-A ports (each 3.2 Gen 1 – 5Gbps) and act as a hub. The Rescue DRS value-addition is relevant to this product additionally. The product might be obtainable in two capability factors – 8TB for $220, and 16TB for $400. The latter SKU is fascinating from the perspective of the inner drive – this may in all probability be the primary product to hold Seagate’s consumer-focused 16TB HDD, as they don’t have a BarraCuda 16TB within the retail market at the moment.
