• Reviews around speed (4.07 of 5)

    Seagate 2TB FireCuda Gaming SSHD SATA 6Gb/s Flash Accelerated (8GB) Performance Hard Drive (ST2000LX001)

    • The speed is fairly good for the price, but the product itself is defective
    • However for less than a $100 you get 2TB drive which speed is adequate at worst and satisfactory at best
    • Worked like I thought it would, improved load speed and gave me plenty of storage space.
    • This SSHD offers write speed similar to an SSD and usually delivers effective read speed on the order of 80% to 90% of SSD speed
    • So my system has now gained space and speed.
    • so this was a good speed and storage compromise.
    • Great Speed and very Reliable
    • Good speed for hdd
    • After swapping this out into my Mac mini I was blown away how much speed I had lost due to a choked 1tb drive from 2012.
    • Speed isn't the fast, but loading times haven't been an issue.
    • The more you use the game the faster it loads, topping out speed wise around the 5th load
    • First drive arrived and gave very poor speeds - about half what a basic (WD Blue) normal 2.5" drive reported
    • Speed improved and now I don't need to delete a game to try one of the ps plus titles.
    • SSHD isn’t as fast as an SSD, but after a 5th load or more at a specific game or application the speed will be SSD like
    • Good value and speed for HDD
    • The disk has plenty of space and a good speed
    • It's a solid drive that has improved the speed of Loading and Saving Data over my stock drive
    • Easy installation and the speed of the hybrid SSD is great in ps4 for loading into frequented areas in games
    • This drive had decent speed for a mechanical drive but it ended up failing shortly after installing windows 10
    • I love the speed, capacity, warranty, and price of this new drive...
    • but when I get better speeds from slower rpm drives 2 years ago then I'm not sure
    • As others have stated, the speeds on this hard drive simply are not fast
    • Installed this as an economical speed and storage upgrade for a PS4 hard drive, without any hassle.
    • maybe it's me being used to ssd speed, but the speed of this hd is way slower than I remember even compared to my old rotation hd that came with my
    • Strangely, the speeds on the drive I was replacing are much faster than this
    • This hybrid hard drive is for real it completely turned my average slows laptop into a super speed machine cannot recommend MORE!
    • It is a great option for consumers as it offers betters speeds than a 5400 RPM HDD, but is way cheaper than an SSD.
    • The speed of this drive is decent and is not loud as others people said, at least my unit is in good conditions
    • Excellent speed
    • The speed or the fbs, performance ,does not change.dont be fooled
    • Write speeds top out at 400KB/
    • Great read/write speed, games running faster than my last hard drive
    • if you want good speeds and a large capacity without the full SSD price, this is your answer, you wont be disappointed.
    • Seeing the new speed in my machine and has improved the battery life
    • Super long startup and shutdown speeds, and can't go three minutes without freezing for a few seconds to read from the disk.
    • It worked great up until today the speeds are now ridiculously slow - 3MB/s on a copy to an SSD over sata III
    • Great speed and size for what I paid for
    • Great blend of affordable speed with affordable space.
    • Speed seems good too!
    • did.however I prefer reliability to speed.so for the money it is a great deal.highly recommended for faster speeds and reliability.
    • While I initially enjoyed the speed of this drive, it has just failed on me
    • boots up at good speed but after that it's slow
    • I wanted to replace my 1T HDD to see if I could improve my system speed
    • The speed of the hybrid drive is also nice and reduces the load times a little bit.
    • Nearly all of the performance loss relative to the builtin SSD comes from slowing down to USB 3 speed for data transfer---an insignificant loss.
    • Great speed and size.
    • Better speeds and more storage
    • Good speed
    • The speed on this drive is amazing
    • Fast speed
    • Very significant improvement in speed switching from HDD to SSHD.
    • but it's got more than enough storage in the flash memory that the speed is very fast
    • Easy install great speed extremely happy
    • ... so sad they stopped making laptops) because my laptop shut itself off after a bout of super slow speed, and now it tells me there is "no bootable device."
    • Installation was simple and the speed is great
    • Transfers were not stellar speed, but I didn't mind thinking it was still a mechanical drive
    • Added speed and double the storage space is a win-win for me
    • Decent speed increase compared to standard HDDs but, 4 months used with my
    • Basically, I filled up my hard drive using my no data limit ISP and now I have all the games I want to play at my fingertips and at super fast speeds
    • ORDINARY SEAGATES MUCH CHEAPER ARE FASTER!I worked with Seagate Support who were most helpful but we could not get the drive to the supposed speed of 150.We tried a firecuda 2TB 3.5 too with the same result that all was fine but for the slow speed
    • Now I was hoping for decent speed even with a backup, but I did cancel the backup and thought my speed was back to somewhat normal.
    • I couldn't be more pleased with this hard drives speed
    • Solid transfer speeds, great for storing games on!
    • Speed is pretty zippy, nice storage size also seems to be quieter than stock hdd
    • Feel the speed of loading is faster.
    • Good product, satisfactory speed and trusted brand I use for many years
    • it will no work on 6gb/s (only 3gb/s) and will be detected as overheatedAlready reported to Seagate, until now not firmware upgrade...