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News Analysis
Nov 10, 2026
The Seagate FireCuda Forge combines a hard drive and an SSD for improved performance that will ask more of your wallet, too.
An enormous hard drive. A speedy cache. Storage makers have tried to deliver the best of both worlds to content creators for years now, and Seagate’s Alkemi platform is the latest attempt to provide creators what they’ve been asking for. But there’s a catch.
Seagate’s 8TB and 20TB FireCuda Forge external drives are the first to use the Alkemi platform,
