Seagate announces FireCuda Forge external hybrid drive
Seagate has announced the FireCuda Forge, a new external hybrid storage drive. The device combines a hard drive and an SSD, moving data between them to balance performance, capacity, and affordability. Its design has also drawn attention for revisiting an older hybrid drive concept.
Seagate has announced a new external storage solution called the FireCuda Forge. Designed as a hybrid drive, the product brings together a traditional hard drive and a solid-state drive in a single external storage device.
To deliver better performance, the FireCuda Forge moves data between the hard drive and the solid-state drive. By pairing these two types of storage, Seagate aims to provide the speed benefits of an SSD alongside the affordability of a higher-capacity hard drive.
Although the announcement highlights a balance of speed, capacity, and affordability, the hybrid storage concept itself is not new. Coverage of the FireCuda Forge points out that Seagate's new drive revisits an old idea and raises some of the same familiar questions surrounding hybrid drives.
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