Seagate Technology on Tuesday said it had unveiled FireCuda Forge, its first hard drive based on the Alkemi storage platform that combines the strengths of solid state drives (SSD) and hard disk drives (HDD).

FireCuda Forge combines the fast responsiveness offered by SSDs and the large storage capacity provided by HDDs in a single drive through Alkemi.

The company said it uses adaptive intelligence to provide the speed and storage capacity needed by gamers and content creators without complex data management processes.

Seagate said its Alkemi dynamic-caching technology learns data usage patterns in real time. It automatically prioritises frequently used content on a user SSD while providing storage capacity for large content libraries through the HDD.

By extending intelligent data tiering technology used in data centres to desktop environments, users can access dynamically cached content based on usage patterns without managing where data is stored.

Lance Ohara (랜스 오하라), vice president of edge IoT marketing at Seagate, said, "Until now, external storage users had to choose between speed and storage capacity, but FireCuda Forge was developed to remove the limits of that choice." He added, "Based on the new Alkemi technology, it combines the fast responsiveness users want and the storage capacity they need into a single intelligent management system, helping gamers and content creators enjoy both benefits."