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SeagateST1000DM010
  

Release date ≈ Q2 2017.

Release date: Q3 2016.

Real World Speed
Performance profile from 1,120,132 user samples
34 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 80% 931GB free
Worst Bench: 46% 49GB free
Poor: 46% Great: 80%
SPEED RANK: 172nd / 1015
1,120,098 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 113% 914GB free
Worst Bench: 60% 513GB free
Poor: 60% Great: 113%
SPEED RANK: 13th / 1015
Effective Speed
Effective HDD Speed
63.5 % 92.3 % Much faster effective speed.
+45%
Read
Avg. Sequential Read Speed
111 MB/s 164 MB/s Much faster read speed.
+48%
Write
Avg. Sequential Write Speed
103 MB/s 144 MB/s Much faster write speed.
+40%
4K Read
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed
0.79 MB/s 0.82 MB/s +4%
4K Write
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed
2.51 MB/s Much faster random write.
+66%
1.51 MB/s
Mixed
Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed
78.6 MB/s +2% 77.2 MB/s
4K Mixed
Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed
0.98 MB/s Much faster random mixed IO.
+38%
0.71 MB/s
SusWrite
Avg. Sustained Write Speed
100 MB/s 158 MB/s Much faster sustained write speed.
+58%
Read
Peak Sequential Read Speed
141 MB/s 199 MB/s Much faster peak read speed.
+41%
Write
Peak Sequential Write Speed
157 MB/s 189 MB/s Faster peak write speed.
+20%
4K Read
Peak 4K Random Read Speed
1.1 MB/s Faster peak random read.
+10%
1 MB/s
4K Write
Peak 4K Random Write Speed
3.58 MB/s Hugely faster peak random write.
+111%
1.7 MB/s
Mixed
Peak Sequential Mixed IO Speed
133 MB/s Much faster peak mixed IO speed.
+55%
85.9 MB/s
4K Mixed
Peak 4K Random Mixed IO Speed
1.4 MB/s Much faster peak random mixed IO.
+56%
0.9 MB/s
SusWrite
Peak Sequential Sustained Write 60s Average
142 MB/s 199 MB/s Much faster peak sustained write speed.
+40%
Market Share
Based on 53,941,678 HDDs tested
User Rating
UBM User Rating
50 % 68 % Much more popular.
+36%
Age
Newest
89+ Months Slightly more recent.
+9%
98 Months
Capacity
Capacity
1TB 1TB

The 1TB Seagate Barracuda 2016 (ST1000DM010) has an impressive performance profile. With Sequential read/writes averaging 173 and 159 MBps respectively, the Barracuda can make short work of even moderately large backups. The small file (4K) performance profile is less impressive but still adequate with average read/writes coming in at 0.87 and 1.53 MBps respectively. For use as OS drives, rotational disks are quickly loosing market share to SSDs which offer orders of magnitude faster 4k read/write speeds. On the other hand cheap TLC based SSDs often have slower sustained write speeds than their rotational counterparts. Reasonably good overall performance can be achieved by using a TLC SSD to host the OS and a larger rotational drive such as the Barracuda for backups and media files. Larger capacity variants of this drive offer both better performance and better value for money. [Feb '17 HDrivePro]

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