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Seagate ST1000DM010

Barracuda 1TB (2016)

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Release date: Q3 2016.

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Average Bench: 95.3% (11th of 1015)

more Based on 225,353 user benchmarks.  Models: ST1000DM010-2EP102, ST1000DM010-2EP1, ST1000DM010-2DM162, ST1000DM010-2FR10C, ST1000DM010-2DM1, ST1000DM ST1000DM010-2DM1, ST1000DM ST1000DM010-2EP1, ST1000DM 010-2DM162

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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Poor: 65%Average: 95.3% Great: 116%

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Excellent average bench

The Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) averaged just 4.7% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 0.76MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 171MB/s

Below average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) is 51.1%. This is a relatively wide range which indicates that the Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 77.2MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 1.53MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 225,353 samples)
Rank 1195.3%
Min Avg Max
111 Read 171 206
72.4 Write 148 195
62.2 Mixed 77.2 86.3
94.2 SusWrite 162 201
102% 139 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.6 4K Read 0.81 1
1.2 4K Write 1.53 1.8
0.5 4K Mixed 0.76 0.9
146% 1.03 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
637GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 185 187 189 190 190 191 MB/s
105% Outstanding
Read 179
Write 187
Mixed 85.5
SusWrite 189
117% 160 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.8
150% 1.03 MB/s
436GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 161 158 166 162 166 163 MB/s
92% Outstanding
Read 158
Write 158
Mixed 81
SusWrite 163
102% 140 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.3
4K Mixed 0.7
135% 0.93 MB/s
308GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 145 147 148 149 148 148 MB/s
91.5% Outstanding
Read 172
Write 179
Mixed 83.8
SusWrite 148
106% 146 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.8
150% 1.03 MB/s
298GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 148 146 148 147 148 149 MB/s
86.3% Excellent
Read 153
Write 106
Mixed 70.5
SusWrite 148
87% 119 MB/s
4K Read 1.1
4K Write 1.4
4K Mixed 0.8
161% 1.1 MB/s
509GB free (System drive)
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 26 25 40 58 52 37 MB/s
14.2% Very poor
Read 10
Write 16
Mixed 19.2
SusWrite 39.7
16% 21.2 MB/s
4K Read 0.1
4K Write 0.2
4K Mixed 0.1
19% 0.13 MB/s
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 Prices

Approx. $50 @ launch in Sep '16
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Gaming 68%
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Desktop 76%
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Workstation
Workstation 69%
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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B350-PLUS - $120

CPU
Ryzen 5 1600AMD  $108Bench 82%, 162,203 samples10,196x
Ryzen 7 1700AMD  $235Bench 85%, 98,753 samples4,180x
Ryzen 5 1600XAMD  $146Bench 87%, 59,652 samples3,782x
GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $230Bench 70%, 620,088 samples4,799x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia  $155Bench 38%, 370,121 samples2,596x
GTX 1070Nvidia  $335Bench 98%, 579,633 samples2,514x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $85Bench 105%, 432,736 samples2,391x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 201%, 138,794 samples1,417x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $100Bench 114%, 320,095 samples1,322x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $79Bench 86%, 194,158 samples2,521x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $85Bench 91%, 97,100 samples813x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $85Bench 94%, 64,999 samples730x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 115% - Outstanding Total price: $622

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 Comments

HDrivePro
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Official site www.seagate.com/...

Versatile, fast, dependable. The fiercest drive you've ever met...

Added 2 years ago.
USA-User
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Good (edit your comment) Add link

2 months ago.

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GBR-User
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Poor

3 months ago.

----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 5.2.0 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s] * KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 204.849 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 197.756 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.605 MB/s [ 391.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1.622 MB/s [ 396.0 IOPS] Sequential Read (T= 1) : 204.048 MB/s Sequential Write (T= 1) : 202.781 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 0.644 MB/s [ 157.2 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 1.592 MB/s [ 388.7 IOPS] Test : 1024 MiB [S: 0.0% (0.2/931.5 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2017/07/21 19:15:54 OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 14393] (x64)

AUS-User
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2,302

Good

9 months ago.

its extremely reliable, been 4 years and its still holding my steam library

KOR-User
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1,854

Terrible

4 months ago.

my hdd is wd blue 1tb but saegate is win

HDrivePro
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Good

2 years ago.

ViceCity
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82

Terrible

11 months ago.

slow

RifluY29
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28

Excellent

2 months ago.

Good :)

_LTG_
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16

Good

7 months ago.

It's good, but for an extra $15, go for the 2TB

EthanCrane22
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Excellent

3 months ago.

Very nice drives for mass storage, games, music and more!!

MuhammadSSD
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Excellent

2 months ago.

Excellent

Kevster5
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Good

17 months ago.

This hard drive has never done me any wrong. Well over a year as a backup drive and no issues. Decent buy for the price point.

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