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Seagate ST31000524AS

Barracuda 7200.12 1TB

Average Bench: 53.9% (260th of 1015)

more Based on 337,642 user benchmarks.  Models: ST31000524AS, ST31000528AS, ST31000524AS-9YP154, ST310005 24AS, ST310005 ST31000528AS, ST310005 ST31000524AS, Seagate ST31000528AS

The 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 was superseded by the Barracuda 7200.14 just ten months after the 7200.12's release. Looking at a comparison between the 7200.12 vs 7200.14 shows that the more recent 7200.14 was a huge improvement over the 7200.12. The 7200.12 has average sequential read/write speeds of 97/91 vs 161/155 MB/s on the newer 7200.14. Additionally the small file 4K read/write speeds of 0.62/1.32 are improved upon by over 25% on the newer version. Overall there is no contest between the two drives and considering that they are similarly priced, the newer 7200.14 is the clear winner. The 7200.12 has an effective speed of just 88.4 MB/s which is a whopping 54% below the average of the group leaders. [Mar '14 HDrivePro]

Poor: 34%Average: 53.9% Great: 68%

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Average average bench

The Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB averaged 46.0% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 0.88MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 0.76MB/s

Above average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB is 34.1%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 59MB/s
Avg. Sequential Write Speed 92.1MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 337,642 samples)
Rank 26053.9%
Min Avg Max
57.7 Read 94.1 118
48.6 Write 92.1 119
43.7 Mixed 59 70.3
51.7 SusWrite 93.7 122
62.3% 84.7 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.5 4K Read 0.76 0.9
0.9 4K Write 1.38 1.8
0.6 4K Mixed 0.88 1
155% 1.01 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
2TB free
Firmware: JC4B
SusWrite @10s intervals: 116 117 116 117 117 114 MB/s
66% Good
Read 114
Write 118
Mixed 68
SusWrite 116
76% 104 MB/s
4K Read 0.9
4K Write 1.3
4K Mixed 0.9
162% 1.03 MB/s
200GB free
Firmware: JC4A
SusWrite @10s intervals: 113 114 113 115 115 113 MB/s
63.2% Good
Read 107
Write 98.5
Mixed 61.9
SusWrite 114
70% 95.2 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.1
4K Mixed 0.9
154% 0.93 MB/s
769GB free
Firmware: CC46
SusWrite @10s intervals: 109 110 109 108 109 109 MB/s
60.9% Good
Read 103
Write 93.7
Mixed 59.7
SusWrite 109
67% 91.3 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.7
4K Mixed 1
176% 1.17 MB/s
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MSRP ≈ $65 @ launch in Jan '11
AmazonUS $702 months
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Gaming 2%
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Desktop 61%
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Workstation 2%
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Disqualified System: bin bin

CPU
Core i7-3770Intel  $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples2,023x
Core i7-2600Intel  $192Bench 67%, 185,630 samples1,568x
Core i5-3470Intel  $59Bench 63%, 223,595 samples932x
GPU
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples1,322x
SVGA 3DVmwareBench 20%, 11,474 samples1,141x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia  $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples1,040x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples821x
Virtual NVMe Disk 64GBVmwareBench 62%, 2,103 samples456x
A400 480GBKingston  $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples425x
RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples516x
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples376x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples297x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 64% - Good Total price: $325

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 Comments

HDrivePro
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1,391

Official site www.seagate.com/...

Performance and reliability for everyone...

Added 10 years ago.
USA-User
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9,840

Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

6 months ago.

Currently this is one of my favorite HD's and it performs very well considering the age of it.

GBR-User
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5,782

Excellent

5 years ago.

für den Gebrauch zum Daten sichern recht gut

TUR-User
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5,524

Good

3 years ago.

i have been using it for 9 years and still no problem about its write and read's speed

HDrivePro
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1,391

Terrible

10 years ago.

Mathinios
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28

Good

3 years ago.

Il est vieux, en vitesse d'écriture et de lecture c'est pas top mais il fait le boulot d'un disque dur pour une simple utilisation.

RJM999
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8

Outstanding

7 years ago.

This hard drive works and perfroms outstandingly. It is nice to have 1TB of storage at a low price like this. I highly recommend this hard drive to anyone, gaming or workspace.

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