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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% (10th of 1010)

more Based on 152,429 user benchmarks.  Models: ST1000DM010-2EP102, ST1000DM010-2EP1, ST1000DM010-2DM162, 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: 64%Average: 95.3% Great: 115%

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Excellent average bench

The Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) averaged just 4.6% 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 0.75MB/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 1.51MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 152,429 samples)
Rank 1095.3%
Min Avg Max
104 Read 171 203
69.9 Write 148 192
61.3 Mixed 77.2 86.3
92.6 SusWrite 162 201
102% 139 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.6 4K Read 0.81 1
1.2 4K Write 1.51 1.8
0.5 4K Mixed 0.75 0.9
145% 1.03 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
905GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 183 185 184 181 186 186 MB/s
108% Outstanding
Read 193
Write 192
Mixed 81.8
SusWrite 184
119% 163 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.9
161% 1.07 MB/s
386GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 185 186 185 183 183 185 MB/s
103% Outstanding
Read 176
Write 179
Mixed 85
SusWrite 184
114% 156 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.8
150% 1.03 MB/s
749GB free (System drive)
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 122 146 154 157 161 166 MB/s
86.5% Excellent
Read 151
Write 176
Mixed 76.5
SusWrite 151
101% 139 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.7
139% 1 MB/s
550GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 71 68 60 71 69 67 MB/s
66% Good
Read 162
Write 77.9
Mixed 72.5
SusWrite 67.8
70% 95.1 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.1
4K Mixed 0.7
132% 0.87 MB/s
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 14,196,231 HDDs tested.

 Prices

Approx. $50 @ launch in Sep '16
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Desktop 73%
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Workstation 69%
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System: Dell Inspiron 5675

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Ryzen 7 1700XAMD  $180Bench 89%, 49,030 samples1,273x
Ryzen 5 1400AMD  $127Bench 66%, 21,415 samples831x
Ryzen 7 1700AMD  $160Bench 85%, 79,589 samples687x
GPU
Radeon RX 580AMDBench 58%, 2,302 samples1,622x
Radeon RX 570AMDBench 46%, 1,156 samples901x
Radeon RX 560-BAMDBench 28%, 7,812 samples426x
SSD
hynix SC311 SATA 256GBSKBench 79%, 4,638 samples548x
hynix SC311 SATA 128GBSKBench 66%, 5,327 samples177x
X400 M.2 2280 256GBSandiskBench 66%, 3,204 samples115x
RAM
M378A1K43CB2-CRC 1x8GBSamsungBench 41%, 6,279 samples323x
M378A1K43BB2-CRC 1x8GBSamsungBench 41%, 1,215 samples316x
KYXC0V-MID 1x16GBKingstonBench 43%, 517 samples295x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 107% - Outstanding Total price: $180

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 Comments

HDrivePro
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891

Official site www.seagate.com/...

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

Added 24 months ago.
USA-User
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4,760

Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

3 days ago.

Much better gaming performance than Toshiba and WD HDD.

GBR-User
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3,052

Good

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)

CAN-User
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2,608

Excellent

1 month ago.

Big unit

AUS-User
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2,116

Good

4 months ago.

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

PER-User
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1,124

Good

1 month ago.

me encanto

HDrivePro
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891

Good

23 months ago.

ViceCity
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82

Terrible

7 months ago.

slow

_LTG_
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16

Good

2 months ago.

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

Kevster5
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8

Good

12 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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