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Seagate ST1000DM010

Barracuda 1TB (2016)

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Release date: Q3 2016.

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Average Bench: 93.5% (19th of 1010)

more Based on 102,941 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: 57%Average: 93.5% Great: 116%

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Excellent average bench

The Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) averaged just 6.4% 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 0.73MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 167MB/s

Below average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) is 59%. 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 75MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 1.49MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 102,941 samples)
Rank 1993.5%
Min Avg Max
88.4 Read 167 205
65.5 Write 148 195
52 Mixed 75 85.7
87.3 SusWrite 159 200
100% 137 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.5 4K Read 0.8 1
1 4K Write 1.49 1.8
0.44 4K Mixed 0.73 0.9
142% 1.01 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
746GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 189 198 199 199 197 198 MB/s
112% Outstanding
Read 194
Write 187
Mixed 76
SusWrite 196
119% 163 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.7
139% 1 MB/s
519GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 182 181 183 182 184 182 MB/s
106% Outstanding
Read 188
Write 170
Mixed 81
SusWrite 182
113% 155 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.8
150% 1.03 MB/s
727GB free (System drive)
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 127 150 126 173 181 174 MB/s
95.4% Outstanding
Read 178
Write 180
Mixed 79.2
SusWrite 155
108% 148 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.9
161% 1.07 MB/s
783GB free (System drive)
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 90 152 150 178 156 165 MB/s
70.5% Very good
Read 97.3
Write 53
Mixed 72.5
SusWrite 148
68% 92.8 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.7
139% 1 MB/s
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Approx. $50 @ launch in Sep '16
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Desktop 72%
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Workstation 68%
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System: Dell Inspiron 5675

CPU
Ryzen 7 1700XAMD  $180Bench 89%, 36,519 samples1,039x
Ryzen 5 1400AMD  $134Bench 67%, 16,015 samples613x
Ryzen 7 1700AMD  $192Bench 85%, 63,181 samples573x
GPU
Radeon RX 580AMDBench 58%, 2,031 samples1,372x
Radeon RX 570AMDBench 46%, 705 samples710x
Radeon RX 560-BAMDBench 28%, 5,845 samples325x
SSD
hynix SC311 SATA 256GBSKBench 78%, 3,371 samples481x
hynix SC311 SATA 128GBSKBench 65%, 4,046 samples146x
X400 M.2 2280 256GBSandiskBench 65%, 2,691 samples104x
RAM
M378A1K43BB2-CRC 1x8GBSamsungBench 41%, 980 samples264x
KYXC0V-MID 1x16GBKingstonBench 43%, 449 samples256x
M378A1K43CB2-CRC 1x8GBSamsungBench 41%, 4,902 samples225x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 106% - Outstanding Total price: $180

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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...

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13 days ago.

GBR-User
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Good

13 days 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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Average

2 months ago.

Kinda works, but will freeze and crash for stupid reasons.

AUS-User
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Good

1 month ago.

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

HDrivePro
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891

Good

20 months ago.

ViceCity
Avatar level
82

Terrible

3 months ago.

slow

Kevster5
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Good

9 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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