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Seagate

Expansion 500GB

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Release date ≈ Q2 2014.

Average Bench: 39% (523rd of 1015)

Based on 5,329 user benchmarks.  Model: Seagate Expansion
Poor: 15%Average: 39% Great: 62%

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Poor average bench

The Seagate Expansion 500GB averaged 61.0% 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 0.55MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 0.55MB/s

Average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Seagate Expansion 500GB is 46.7%. This is a relatively wide range which indicates that the Seagate Expansion 500GB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 41.6MB/s
Avg. Sequential Write Speed 67.1MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 5,329 samples)
Rank 52339%
Min Avg Max
27.6 Read 67.2 109
22.4 Write 67.1 112
19.1 Mixed 41.6 82.1
25.3 SusWrite 68.6 112
44.9% 61.1 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.4 4K Read 0.55 1.1
0.4 4K Write 1.05 2.7
0.3 4K Mixed 0.55 0.8
104% 0.72 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
233GB free
Firmware: 0636
SusWrite @10s intervals: 93 90 89 89 57 91 MB/s
50.2% Above average
Read 90.4
Write 80.1
Mixed 50.1
SusWrite 84.6
56% 76.3 MB/s
4K Read 0.5
4K Write 0.7
4K Mixed 0.6
100% 0.6 MB/s
242GB free
Firmware: 0708
SusWrite @10s intervals: 87 88 86 88 88 87 MB/s
48.6% Average
Read 82.3
Write 84.9
Mixed 47.9
SusWrite 87.3
55% 75.6 MB/s
4K Read 0.5
4K Write 0.7
4K Mixed 0.5
89% 0.57 MB/s
27GB free
Firmware: 060E
SusWrite @10s intervals: 49 50 49 51 52 52 MB/s
37.5% Below average
Read 80.4
Write 62.5
Mixed 32.2
SusWrite 50.5
41% 56.4 MB/s
4K Read 0.4
4K Write 0.4
4K Mixed 0.2
46% 0.33 MB/s
170GB free
Firmware: 8101
SusWrite @10s intervals: 39 40 41 40 40 40 MB/s
26.1% Poor
Read 50.7
Write 37.4
Mixed 30
SusWrite 39.8
29% 39.5 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.1
4K Mixed 0.6
116% 0.8 MB/s
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Gaming 78%
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Desktop 87%
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Workstation 74%
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Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING - $135

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600AMD  $82Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples5,008x
Ryzen 7 2700XAMD  $210Bench 76%, 159,077 samples3,179x
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD  $205Bench 86%, 635,419 samples2,946x
GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia  $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples1,510x
RTX 2070S (Super)Nvidia  $210Bench 115%, 663,603 samples1,314x
RTX 3070Nvidia  $400Bench 148%, 619,642 samples1,302x
SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples885x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples788x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples685x
RAM
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $63Bench 85%, 346,786 samples1,556x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples1,517x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples960x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 73% - Very good Total price: $684

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