I'm in the market for a 2TB HD and wondered if any forum members have a Seagate FireCuda and if so, how do they rate it ?
 
As it's described as an ideal drive for 'creative pro applications' and comes with a five year warranty, it seems like a good call. Unless someone knows better...

Seagate FireCuda Webpage
https://goo.gl/zzNREo

seems ok... I decided on a 2TB Fantom for $129, usb3 7200 portable and it is working great, loading libraries fast, into my new laptop.  
 
Whatever u do, do it quicker than slower as prices are going up fast... see other thread in this forum.

Many thanks for your reply, the Fantom looks very decent.
 
As you mention, prices are going up fast and here in the UK other factors are causing additional price hikes so I'll grab a Seagate this weekend.
 
 
 

That link in the OP has a lot of content with little information. It comes across as a typical SSHD, but then details of drive version lists some as SSHD and others not, and the "SSD portion" doesn't have specs I saw. The SSHD puts a portion of the drive onto chips for fast loading (but is often only 8GB or so), and the rest is conventional HDD. The "green" part is concerning and would be best to disable (if possible) for DAW use. 3.5" platters will deliver higher data rate at the OD for the same spindle speed (2.5" platters only get impressive at 10,000rpm).

Researching "SSHD" will give more insight on product, but is essentially an HDD with an "SSD partition" built in.
 
Quick edit: I opened that link again on my computer since the mobile version is rather rudimentary. The ones with "SSHD" in the title do, in fact, have the 8GB NAND on them, the ones without do not. They do have impressive shock specs though (operating - 350/400Gs, non-operating - 1000Gs)... definitely a laptop drive with that spec (a large desktop case with a drive mounted on the top will hit ~100Gs if it tips over onto a concrete floor).

Ive recently moved to Toshiba P300 HDD.

I purchased two of the 500 gig drives.
they are HYBRID drives
the performance in my DAW with them sucks.. very very  very slow, they are for the OS, btw
tried them in RAID, then as a single drive
I thought something was wrong with my daw hardware and put a 256 SSD drive back in. and back to blazing performance
so as usual YMMV just my results,
ran the seagate software and it passes, no problem found, my daw is up to date on drivers, etc

If you read the fine print, the FireCuda drives sustain ~210MB/Sec.
You can get the same performance from a conventional HD. 

Jim Roseberry
If you read the fine print, the FireCuda drives sustain ~210MB/Sec.
You can get the same performance from a conventional HD. 

Yes I saw it after the horse was out of the barn, Jim. I fell prey to GAS when a coworker who purchased one and I went to the same site he did and bought two for a raid array; and the ad was a little misleading. I went to the seagate site after i received the drives and read the whole story.
 
But the ad copy touts BLAZING performance, blah blah.
 
Also, they are 5400 RPM. The retailer will take them back after a restocking fee and shipping, so I dont know if I will return them  and take a loss or just try to sell them locally and take a loss.
 
Now reading  comments, Seagate says you have to reboot many times for the adaptive technology to "learn" your  system, but I have and it still is slow.
 
Live and learn...