SSD models with the Star Wars brand name are priceless. Well, yes, it does and it's pretty expensive.
Seagate is a specialist in hard drives and SSDs, and is used to special editions that feature some of the biggest names in the world of video games, such as the MasterChief from the Halo saga or the heroine Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn. Rather clever, Seagate also managed to negotiate a partnership with Disney in order to exploit the Star Wars license through several special versions of its hard drives which, depending on the case, could illustrate the characters of Boba Fett, Darth Vader, Han Solo or Luke Skywalker. More recently, models featuring the Mandalorian and the "crunchy" Grogu have been released.
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Today, Seagate leaves aside the iconic characters to focus on the hardware. Indeed, a new line of SSDs is coming out and, to decorate them in an original way, Seagate integrates lightsabers. The idea is quite simple really: Seagate takes one of its best NVMe SSD models, the Firecuda 530. Then, on the heat sink, it places a kind of interchangeable front panel designed by EKWB. The front panel represents a light saber and the trick lies in the fact that, connected in RGB on the motherboard, the saber lights up in red for the Darth Vader model or blue for the Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi versions.
Seagate says that "a motherboard with 5V addressable header is required " for the illumination to work. For our part, we regret that other models are not available to illustrate, for example, the sabers of Qui-Gon Jinn and Yoda (green) or Mace Windu (purple). In fact, we regret above all the extra cost that Seagate seems to ask for what is still a gadget. The company has not yet communicated a price for France, but in the United States, the 2Tb model is displayed at Amazon for $279.99, which represents an increase of some $70 compared to the Firecuda 530 with a "simple" heatsink. Yes, "outch" is the word you're looking for.
