Is the Seagate FireCuda 540 hitting a performance bottleneck?
Looking at Test Report 2026-NC-04 on Windows 11, CrystalDiskMark showed 4K random reads jumping between 98MB/s - 133MB/s, while sequential throughput was unstable at 5.4GB/s - 7.1GB/s. I tried using 3DMark to find a pattern, but the benchmark scores varied by 13%, making them useless. I switched to Novabench to lock the queue depth and used Unigine Heaven to simulate a high-load scenario while updating to the latest firmware. After that, throughput stabilized at 5.8GB/s - 6.5GB/s, and the screen tearing during enemy swaps vanished. While the overall boost is real, the read speed still tanks below 100MB/s when handling tiny fragmented files. That's just a native flaw of this drive under specific loads.
