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Seagate ST3000DM008

Barracuda 3TB (2016)

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Release date: Q3 2016.

Average Bench: 95.6% (9th of 1015)

more Based on 62,523 user benchmarks.  Models: ST3000DM008-2DM166, ST3000DM008-2DM1, ST3000DM 008-2DM166, ST3000DM ST3000DM008-2DM1, Seagate ST3000DM008-2DM1, ST3000DM 008

The new 3TB Seagate Barracuda 2016 (ST3000DM008) replaces its hugely successful predecessor, the 3TB Barracuda 7200.14 2011 (ST3000DM001). Comparing performance between the two models shows that the newer drive has 12% faster sequential speeds, comparable 4K speeds, improved mixed sequential speed and reduced mixed 4K speed. Overall, the effective speed is 12% faster on the 2016 model. Since there is normally little price difference between the two models the 2016 version is the clear winner especially for use as a backup drive with its impressive sequential read and write speeds of nearly 200 MBps. See the current value leaders here. [Feb '17 HDrivePro]

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Poor: 65%Average: 95.6% Great: 115%

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Excellent average bench

The Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) averaged just 4.3% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 0.76MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 170MB/s

Average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) is 49.2%. This is a relatively wide range which indicates that the Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 78.1MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 0.69MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 62,523 samples)
Rank 995.6%
Min Avg Max
108 Read 170 203
80.7 Write 137 175
60.7 Mixed 78.1 87.6
100 SusWrite 164 203
100% 137 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.6 4K Read 0.69 0.8
1.39 4K Write 1.62 1.8
0.6 4K Mixed 0.76 0.9
143% 1.02 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
2.5TB free
Firmware: CC26
SusWrite @10s intervals: 196 206 205 207 205 207 MB/s
113% Outstanding
Read 190
Write 151
Mixed 85.5
SusWrite 204
115% 158 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.9
4K Mixed 0.7
142% 1.1 MB/s
1TB free
Firmware: CC26
SusWrite @10s intervals: 166 171 170 174 172 175 MB/s
98.4% Outstanding
Read 172
Write 139
Mixed 76.3
SusWrite 171
102% 140 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.6
4K Mixed 0.8
148% 1.03 MB/s
19GB free
Firmware: CC26
SusWrite @10s intervals: 121 118 119 120 123 123 MB/s
62.5% Good
Read 97.1
Write 78.1
Mixed 52
SusWrite 121
64% 86.9 MB/s
4K Read 0.6
4K Write 1.7
4K Mixed 0.8
145% 1.03 MB/s
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 Prices

Approx. $90 @ launch in Sep '16
BHPhotoUS $852 years
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Desktop 115%
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Workstation 99%
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Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING - $240

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel  $350Bench 95%, 464,053 samples23,593x
Core i5-8600KIntel  $240Bench 93%, 155,407 samples4,473x
Core i7-8700Intel  $370Bench 91%, 172,127 samples1,527x
GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia  $808Bench 128%, 494,721 samples8,035x
GTX 1080Nvidia  $540Bench 102%, 678,876 samples6,399x
GTX 1070Nvidia  $415Bench 78%, 846,070 samples2,782x
SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 201%, 153,580 samples2,461x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $140Bench 217%, 115,770 samples2,342x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $98Bench 274%, 164,256 samples2,053x
RAM
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $94Bench 86%, 133,367 samples3,119x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $75Bench 82%, 345,080 samples2,584x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $90Bench 82%, 55,627 samples1,331x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 52% - Above average Total price: $1,592

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 Comments

HDrivePro
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1,391

Official site www.seagate.com/...

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

Added 3 years ago.
USA-User
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6,512

Terrible (edit your comment) Add link

13 days ago.

TUR-User
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3,890

Poor

6 months ago.

I hate it Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016 ım like is 2019 models 3tb dsik

ROU-User
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3,095

Terrible

5 months ago.

I bought this new HDD for all my data accumulated in 15 years. Almost 2T of data. I have a lot of data types: zip, office, eml, rar, pdf, mod, waw, mov, png, jpg, etc, etc.... Smoothly transferred all data . I dont received any failure yet. I hope will not in future! :)

MEX-User
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2,764

Excellent

7 months ago.

Everyone talks about the matter depending on how they fared. Of course, if you were satisfied, you'll give a good opinion about the product. Otherwise, your note won't be good at all. As far as my experience goes with my BarraCuda Compute 3TB (ST3000DM008), it has been behaving perfectly (intermitent use, as it's used as a backup data disc) for almost two years. Of course, I don't know what would happen if it was used as the main HD disc.

HUN-User
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2,443

Poor

1 month ago.

Favorite of the data recovery services. Shat itself, with all my data... the cheapest recovery offer was 10-20 times of the drive's price...

Review  www.backblaze.com/...

32% failure rate for 3 year operation

BEL-User
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1,784

Terrible

2 years ago.

With, after under four years of not so intensive use in a Synology DS413J NAS, a failure rate of 100% for the two Seagate ST3000DM001 drives I used in it , it is safe to say that this Barracuda series was a total disaster as is also seconded by many internet testimonials. So whether this drive was the fastest or not is totally irrelevant if it proves to be as unreliable as it is. Needles to say I think that I didn't replace them by other Seagate drives. The Hitachi 3TB drives I'm also using in the same NAS ran (an still run !) consistently cooler. Shame on you Seagate.

SGP-User
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1,410

Terrible

5 months ago.

Even though it has excellent read and write speed for a hard disk drive, it's reliability is not very good. I highly recommend you NOT to use this drive for system storage.

HDrivePro
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1,391

Good

3 years ago.

metzzy
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8

Excellent

3 years ago.

Best bang for the buck!

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