Seagate did not present the new SSD officially yet and nevertheless there is already the first information to the new M.2 SSD in the net. We have summarized this briefly.
Higher transfer rates and storage capacities
The new Seagate Barracuda Q5 is designed as a consumer SSD. It was designed as an upgrade for notebooks and desktop PCs. With PCIe and NVMe, it achieves higher transfer rates than the predecessor model Q1. It has a more compact form factor than the Q1, which was introduced in the middle of the year and had a 2.5-inch form factor. The new one comes with M.2-2280 and is also based on QLC NAND flash with four bits per memory cell. The newcomer uses PCIe 3.0 x4 and the NVMe protocol as an interface. The Q1 was limited to a slower SATA interface. In SLC mode, the Seagate Q5 can thus achieve significantly higher data transfer rates of up to 2,400 MB/s read and 1,800 MB/s write.
The Q1 is limited to a maximum of 550 MB/s. Even though the Barracuda Q5 is much more compact, it...
