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Seagate has launched the FireCuda Forge, an external desktop hard drive with an empty M.2 slot for a user-supplied SSD that acts as a fast cache, capped at 1TB. The drives come in 8TB ($699) and 20TB ($899) capacities and use new Seagate software called Alkemi, which runs on an FPGA chip with embedded Linux to monitor file usage and copy frequently accessed data to the SSD cache.
Seagate has released the FireCuda Forge, an external storage device that pairs a hard drive with a user-supplied NVMe SSD, using the company's new Alkemi platform to automatically shift frequently used files onto the faster drive. It's available now with an 8TB hard drive for $699 or a 20TB version for $899, though the SSD must be purchased separately. The device presents itself to a computer as a single drive while reaching read speeds up to 2,500MB/s and write speeds up to 2,000MB/s on Windows 11 or macOS 26.