Seagate Launches FireCuda Forge Device

Seagate Technology has launched the new FireCuda Forge drive, representing the first Seagate hard drive powered by the Alkemi intelligent storage platform, combining solid-state drive (SSD) responsiveness and hard disk drive (HDD) capacity in a single drive. FireCuda Forge includes an upgradeable HDD, and users can choose and supply their own NVMe SSD for operational compatibility. The product is available in 8TB and 20TB capacities and can add high-speed caching capability to the high-capacity mechanical hard drive through a user-installed NVMe SSD. Its read performance reaches up to 2,500MB/s and write performance reaches up to 2,000MB/s.