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Seagate ST1000DM010

Barracuda 1TB (2016)

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Release date: Q3 2016.

Average Bench: 92.7% (15th of 1015)

more Based on 333,616 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: 59%Average: 92.7% Great: 115%

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Excellent average bench

The Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) averaged just 7.2% 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 0.74MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 166MB/s

Below average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) is 55.9%. 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 76.6MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 1.51MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 333,616 samples)
Rank 1592.7%
Min Avg Max
104 Read 166 203
63.4 Write 143 192
60.7 Mixed 76.6 86
91.7 SusWrite 157 200
99.2% 136 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.7 4K Read 0.82 1
1.2 4K Write 1.51 1.7
0.5 4K Mixed 0.74 0.9
144% 1.02 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
930GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 197 194 196 196 198 197 MB/s
113% Outstanding
Read 197
Write 183
Mixed 79.2
SusWrite 196
119% 164 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.7
4K Mixed 0.9
165% 1.13 MB/s
105GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 152 155 154 156 145 141 MB/s
91.9% Outstanding
Read 170
Write 142
Mixed 80.5
SusWrite 150
100% 136 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.6
4K Mixed 0.7
141% 1.03 MB/s
879GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 160 162 154 157 163 159 MB/s
89.3% Excellent
Read 152
Write 164
Mixed 76
SusWrite 159
101% 138 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.3
4K Mixed 0.8
146% 0.97 MB/s
101GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 120 121 123 122 119 123 MB/s
86.7% Excellent
Read 181
Write 173
Mixed 77.7
SusWrite 121
101% 138 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.6
4K Mixed 0.7
141% 1.03 MB/s
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 Prices

Approx. $50 @ launch in Sep '16
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Gaming 56%
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Desktop 68%
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Workstation
Workstation 57%
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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B350-PLUS - $89

CPU
Ryzen 5 1600AMD  $95Bench 70%, 228,231 samples11,722x
Ryzen 7 1700AMD  $180Bench 69%, 114,618 samples4,810x
Ryzen 5 1600XAMD  $140Bench 74%, 78,296 samples4,359x
GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $240Bench 57%, 719,672 samples5,511x
GTX 1070Nvidia  $369Bench 79%, 714,011 samples3,009x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia  $155Bench 32%, 458,990 samples2,944x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $76Bench 105%, 529,683 samples2,680x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 200%, 152,751 samples1,559x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $107Bench 112%, 412,784 samples1,490x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $71Bench 85%, 252,931 samples2,920x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $68Bench 87%, 149,447 samples968x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $65Bench 89%, 84,971 samples881x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 64% - Good Total price: $571

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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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5,884

Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

22 days ago.

GBR-User
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Poor

9 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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2,512

Good

14 months ago.

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

KOR-User
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2,030

Good

3 months ago.

my hdd is wd blue 1tb but saegate is win

MYS-User
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1,991

Poor

3 days ago.

I like it thats why i like it, u should like it too because it so good!!

HDrivePro
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891

Good

2 years ago.

ViceCity
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82

Terrible

17 months ago.

slow

evander321
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38

Excellent

1 month ago.

40 dollars for a hard drive that can do 200mb per second

RifluY29
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28

Excellent

7 months ago.

Good :)

_LTG_
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16

Good

12 months ago.

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

EthanCrane22
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12

Excellent

9 months ago.

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

MuhammadSSD
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12

Excellent

7 months ago.

Excellent

Kevster5
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8

Good

23 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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