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