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Seagate ST3000DM008

Barracuda 3TB (2016)

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Release date: Q3 2016.

Average Bench: 96.2% (8th of 1015)

more Based on 48,993 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: 62%Average: 96.2% Great: 116%

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Excellent average bench

The Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) averaged just 3.7% 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 0.77MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 169MB/s

Below average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) is 53.9%. 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 77.7MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 0.69MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 48,993 samples)
Rank 896.2%
Min Avg Max
103 Read 169 205
73.7 Write 137 177
57.7 Mixed 77.7 87.5
100 SusWrite 167 202
101% 138 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.6 4K Read 0.69 0.8
1.3 4K Write 1.61 1.9
0.5 4K Mixed 0.77 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%
901GB free
Firmware: CC26
SusWrite @10s intervals: 187 190 193 195 195 196 MB/s
115% Outstanding
Read 210
Write 171
Mixed 87.5
SusWrite 193
121% 165 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.8
4K Mixed 0.8
151% 1.1 MB/s
901GB free
Firmware: CC26
SusWrite @10s intervals: 190 195 191 194 194 195 MB/s
115% Outstanding
Read 207
Write 158
Mixed 86.2
SusWrite 193
118% 161 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.8
4K Mixed 0.8
151% 1.1 MB/s
1.5TB free
Firmware: CC26
SusWrite @10s intervals: 168 193 196 193 194 193 MB/s
108% Outstanding
Read 189
Write 151
Mixed 79.2
SusWrite 190
111% 152 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.8
146% 1 MB/s
993GB free
Firmware: CC26
SusWrite @10s intervals: 138 137 140 140 140 139 MB/s
94.4% Outstanding
Read 190
Write 148
Mixed 81.9
SusWrite 139
102% 140 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.6
4K Mixed 0.8
148% 1.03 MB/s
155GB free (System drive)
Firmware: CC26
SusWrite @10s intervals: 76 67 43 48 58 62 MB/s
26.4% Poor
Read 32.5
Write 133
Mixed 49.7
SusWrite 59
50% 68.6 MB/s
4K Read 0.6
4K Write 1.7
4K Mixed 0.6
123% 0.97 MB/s
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 22,991,271 HDDs tested.

 Prices

Approx. $90 @ launch in Sep '16
BHPhotoUS $8522 months
AmazonUS $10016 days
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Workstation 93%
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Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING - $232

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Core i7-8700KIntel  $355Bench 94%, 381,974 samples21,101x
Core i5-8600KIntel  $245Bench 91%, 141,514 samples4,023x
Core i7-8700Intel  $370Bench 88%, 147,723 samples1,334x
GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia  $808Bench 129%, 426,287 samples7,217x
GTX 1080Nvidia  $540Bench 105%, 614,460 samples5,805x
GTX 1070Nvidia  $346Bench 79%, 759,017 samples2,495x
SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 203%, 174,625 samples2,352x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $127Bench 219%, 99,922 samples2,173x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $88Bench 274%, 146,644 samples1,826x
RAM
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $95Bench 86%, 101,976 samples2,833x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $63Bench 84%, 283,637 samples2,351x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $88Bench 84%, 46,967 samples1,203x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 53% - Above average Total price: $1,590

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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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Disliked (edit your comment) Add link

14 days ago.

TUR-User
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3,606

Poor

1 month ago.

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

ROU-User
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2,823

Terrible

27 days 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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2,588

Excellent

3 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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2,327

Terrible

9 days 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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1,710

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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1,344

Terrible

1 month 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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891

Good

2 years ago.

metzzy
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8

Excellent

2 years ago.

Best bang for the buck!

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