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Seagate ST1000DM010

Barracuda 1TB (2016)

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Release date: Q3 2016.

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Average Bench: 94% (14th of 1015)

more Based on 234,135 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: 94% Great: 115%

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Excellent average bench

The Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) averaged just 5.9% 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 168MB/s

Below average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) is 56.1%. 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 76.6MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 1.52MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 234,135 samples)
Rank 1494%
Min Avg Max
99 Read 168 204
68 Write 147 192
62.2 Mixed 76.6 86.5
82.8 SusWrite 160 201
101% 138 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.6 4K Read 0.81 1
1.2 4K Write 1.52 1.8
0.5 4K Mixed 0.75 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%
931GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 195 193 189 197 195 195 MB/s
113% Outstanding
Read 199
Write 176
Mixed 80.3
SusWrite 194
118% 162 MB/s
4K Read 0.9
4K Write 1.7
4K Mixed 0.9
169% 1.17 MB/s
789GB free (System drive)
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 133 149 168 173 181 180 MB/s
102% Outstanding
Read 192
Write 175
Mixed 80.2
SusWrite 164
112% 153 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 1.4
4K Mixed 0.8
156% 1.07 MB/s
121GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 178 180 181 179 182 181 MB/s
98.9% Outstanding
Read 165
Write 132
Mixed 81.2
SusWrite 180
102% 140 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.7
139% 1 MB/s
331GB free
Firmware: CC43
SusWrite @10s intervals: 136 140 140 140 141 141 MB/s
90.5% Outstanding
Read 176
Write 166
Mixed 82.2
SusWrite 139
103% 141 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.7
139% 1 MB/s
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 Prices

Approx. $50 @ launch in Sep '16
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Gaming
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  $105Bench 82%, 190,997 samples10,507x
Ryzen 7 1700AMD  $220Bench 85%, 118,025 samples4,318x
Ryzen 5 1600XAMD  $142Bench 87%, 70,175 samples3,899x
GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $250Bench 70%, 607,467 samples4,941x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia  $145Bench 38%, 364,011 samples2,670x
GTX 1070Nvidia  $400Bench 97%, 631,382 samples2,603x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $104Bench 106%, 428,613 samples2,460x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 202%, 141,790 samples1,454x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $103Bench 115%, 362,672 samples1,360x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $68Bench 85%, 208,591 samples2,621x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $78Bench 91%, 95,963 samples851x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $70Bench 90%, 59,425 samples757x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 111% - Outstanding Total price: $647

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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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Liked (edit your comment) Add link

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Poor

4 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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Good

10 months ago.

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

KOR-User
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Terrible

5 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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Terrible

12 months ago.

slow

RifluY29
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28

Excellent

3 months ago.

Good :)

_LTG_
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Good

8 months ago.

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

EthanCrane22
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Excellent

4 months ago.

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

MuhammadSSD
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Excellent

3 months ago.

Excellent

Kevster5
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Good

18 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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