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Seagate ST1000DM010

Barracuda 1TB (2016)

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Release date: Q3 2016.

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Average Bench: 94.8% (13th of 1015)

more Based on 197,330 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: 56%Average: 94.8% Great: 116%

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Excellent average bench

The Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) averaged just 5.2% 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 169MB/s

Below average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) is 60%. 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 76.3MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 1.51MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 197,330 samples)
Rank 1394.8%
Min Avg Max
96.9 Read 169 205
63.5 Write 145 191
54.1 Mixed 76.3 86.4
85.9 SusWrite 162 202
101% 138 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.6 4K Read 0.81 1
1.1 4K Write 1.51 1.8
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%
580GB free (System drive)
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 178 169 173 171 174 167 MB/s
102% Outstanding
Read 182
Write 179
Mixed 80
SusWrite 172
112% 153 MB/s
4K Read 0.9
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.7
143% 1.03 MB/s
435GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 169 173 173 173 173 173 MB/s
94% Outstanding
Read 156
Write 97.1
Mixed 81.6
SusWrite 172
93% 127 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.7
139% 1 MB/s
218GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 143 142 144 144 144 143 MB/s
89.6% Excellent
Read 169
Write 170
Mixed 85.8
SusWrite 144
104% 142 MB/s
4K Read 0.9
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.8
154% 1.07 MB/s
656GB free (System drive)
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 73 116 120 119 115 122 MB/s
59.9% Above average
Read 98
Write 128
Mixed 64.5
SusWrite 111
74% 100 MB/s
4K Read 0.5
4K Write 1
4K Mixed 0.6
106% 0.7 MB/s
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 16,382,626 HDDs tested.

 Prices

Approx. $50 @ launch in Sep '16
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Gaming 69%
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Desktop 75%
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Workstation
Workstation 69%
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Motherboard: Asus PRIME B350-PLUS - $85

CPU
Ryzen 5 1600AMD  $119Bench 81%, 156,338 samples9,577x
Ryzen 7 1700AMD  $153Bench 85%, 89,722 samples3,942x
Ryzen 5 1600XAMD  $151Bench 87%, 62,617 samples3,521x
GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $230Bench 71%, 513,955 samples4,556x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia  $155Bench 38%, 334,939 samples2,452x
GTX 1070Nvidia  $379Bench 98%, 559,440 samples2,308x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 105%, 360,609 samples2,283x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 200%, 117,735 samples1,355x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $107Bench 113%, 323,607 samples1,266x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $95Bench 86%, 178,354 samples2,390x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $100Bench 92%, 87,208 samples771x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $100Bench 92%, 53,023 samples679x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 108% - Outstanding Total price: $629

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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

21 days ago.

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GBR-User
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Poor

1 month 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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2,216

Good

7 months ago.

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

KOR-User
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1,800

Terrible

2 months ago.

my hdd is wd blue 1tb but saegate is win

HDrivePro
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891

Good

2 years ago.

ViceCity
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82

Terrible

10 months ago.

slow

RifluY29
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28

Excellent

5 days ago.

Good :)

_LTG_
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16

Good

5 months ago.

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

EthanCrane22
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Excellent

1 month ago.

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

MuhammadSSD
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Excellent

5 days ago.

Excellent

Kevster5
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8

Good

15 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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