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title: "Seagate FireCuda 530 SSD Read Performance Woes"
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date: 2024-03-02T15:57:48.0710989+08:00
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I have a Seagate FireCuda 530 2 TB NVMe SSD (ZP2000GM30023) and experienced a
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strange issue with read performance. Files which had not been accessed recently
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were very slow to access. Even sequential reads were glacially slow, akin to a
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USB flash drive with access times spiking like crazy.
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This appears to be a firmware bug with the Segate devices, but Seagate does a
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poor job of advertising where to get firmware. If you're affected, update to
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firwmare version SU6SM005 by doing the following:
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1. Download SeaTools from [here](https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/)
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2. Click on the "Advanced" tab once launched, it'll give you the serial number
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3. Return to the SeaTools download page, there's a Firmware Downloads widget on
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the side. Insert your serial number into that
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4. Download the firmware update ZIP and extract it
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5. Select the affected drive in SeaTools and then click "Firmware Update"
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6. Browse to the new .bin file and hit Ok
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7. The firmware update should complete within a few seconds
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Subsequent to this I formatted the drive and reinstalled Windows onto another
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drive since I wasn't sure whether this would fix the issue. After formatting, I
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80% filled the drive with large files and left them there for months.
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After letting them age on the drive, I copied them to another SSD and the read
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performance was extremely fast. Therefore it seems the firmware update has
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resolved the issue and I would suggest this to anyone having issues.
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