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Seagate ST4000DX001 STCL4000400

Desktop SSHD 4TB

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Release date: Q3 2013.

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Average Bench: 72.7% (122nd of 1015)

more Based on 9,020 user benchmarks.  Models: ST4000DX001-1CE168, ST4000DX ST4000DX001-1CE1, ST4000DX 001-1NS164, ST4000DX 001-1CE168, ST4000DX001-1CE1, ST4000DX001-1NS164
Poor: 46%Average: 72.7% Great: 95%

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Good average bench

The Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB averaged 27.3% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 1.87MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 4.91MB/s

Average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB is 48.6%. This is a relatively wide range which indicates that the Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 40.4MB/s
Avg. Sequential Write Speed 114MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 9,020 samples)
Rank 12272.7%
Min Avg Max
51.1 Read 116 168
54.8 Write 114 173
23.2 Mixed 40.4 70.3
81.3 SusWrite 136 173
73.9% 102 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.6 4K Read 1.11 1.4
4.06 4K Write 4.91 5.4
1.13 4K Mixed 1.87 2.4
345% 2.63 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
3TB free
Firmware: CC44
SusWrite @10s intervals: 170 169 170 171 171 170 MB/s
90% Outstanding
Read 142
Write 162
Mixed 55.8
SusWrite 170
96% 133 MB/s
4K Read 1.3
4K Write 5
4K Mixed 2.5
424% 2.93 MB/s
757GB free
Firmware: CC45
SusWrite @10s intervals: 145 145 147 147 146 145 MB/s
73.7% Very good
Read 110
Write 104
Mixed 25.5
SusWrite 146
70% 96.3 MB/s
4K Read 1.1
4K Write 5.2
4K Mixed 1.8
342% 2.7 MB/s
744GB free
Firmware: CC45
SusWrite @10s intervals: 152 159 158 158 160 157 MB/s
67.5% Good
Read 76.8
Write 111
Mixed 25.2
SusWrite 157
67% 92.6 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 5.2
4K Mixed 1.7
327% 2.63 MB/s
1.5TB free
Firmware: CC45
SusWrite @10s intervals: 143 146 139 148 148 148 MB/s
67.4% Good
Read 88.3
Write 92.8
Mixed 24.8
SusWrite 145
64% 87.8 MB/s
4K Read 1.1
4K Write 5.2
4K Mixed 1.9
353% 2.73 MB/s
744GB free
Firmware: CC45
SusWrite @10s intervals: 151 159 158 158 158 159 MB/s
60.2% Good
Read 51.3
Write 117
Mixed 23.2
SusWrite 157
63% 87.2 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 5.2
4K Mixed 1.8
338% 2.67 MB/s
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 17,165,820 HDDs tested.

 Prices

Approx. $169 @ launch in Aug '13
AmazonUS $20015 months
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Typical Desktop SSHD 4TB Builds (Compare 4,049 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.
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Gaming 104%
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Desktop
Desktop 82%
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Workstation 76%
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Motherboard: Asus X99-DELUXE - $349

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel  $391Bench 84%, 55,691 samples1,855x
Core i7-5930KIntel  $560Bench 87%, 17,173 samples1,292x
Core i7-5960XIntel  $552Bench 89%, 7,235 samples532x
GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia  $528Bench 123%, 448,609 samples549x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia  $808Bench 150%, 339,039 samples501x
GTX 980 TiNvidia  $480Bench 96%, 127,519 samples479x
SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $99Bench 113%, 331,339 samples347x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung  $350Bench 227%, 31,419 samples264x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $70Bench 104%, 410,120 samples180x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair  $99Bench 91%, 2,817 samples152x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2800 C16 4x4GBCorsair  $210Bench 92%, 1,880 samples99x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GBCorsair  $148Bench 90%, 3,552 samples93x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 100% - Outstanding Total price: $1,466

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 Comments

HDrivePro
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Official site www.seagate.com/...

Performance, capacity, affordable...

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Disliked (edit your comment) Add link

23 months ago.

AUS-User
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Good

23 months ago.

I own one, complete rubbish crashes fails.... its going in the bin when i manage to recover my data. This has completely put me off buy any further seagate products

CZE-User
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Poor

2 years ago.

after 1,5 year 1 of my 2 these disks have bad sectors

Buckshot26
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Good

3 years ago.

i really like it

imverygay
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Good

20 months ago.

Just storing, not loading OS.

Pichu0102
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Poor

3 years ago.

Incredibly noisy.

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