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Release date ≈ Q3 2014.

Average Bench: 145% (1st of 1015)

Based on 7 user benchmarks.  Model: raid
Poor: 76%Average: 145% Great: 175%

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Outstanding average bench

The raid 4TB averaged 44.6% higher than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the raid 4TB near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Sustained Write Speed 307MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 269MB/s

Terrible consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the raid 4TB is 98.9%. This is a particularly wide range which indicates that the raid 4TB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 137MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 2.64MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 7 samples)
Rank 1145%
Min Avg Max
178 Read 269 346
60.9 Write 224 283
60 Mixed 137 178
307 SusWrite 307 307
171% 234 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.73 4K Read 1.33 2.65
0.35 4K Write 2.64 4.55
0.15 4K Mixed 0.54 1
164% 1.5 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
3.5TB free
Firmware: 1.0.
SusWrite @10s intervals: 308 298 311 301 310 314 MB/s
175% Outstanding
Read 303
Write 229
Mixed 85
SusWrite 307
168% 231 MB/s
4K Read 0.9
4K Write 3
4K Mixed 1
204% 1.63 MB/s
3.5TB free
Firmware: 1.0. Max speed: n/a
169% Outstanding
Read 331
Write 258
Mixed 159
184% 249 MB/s
4K Read 1.89
4K Write 4.48
4K Mixed 0.78
249% 2.38 MB/s
1TB free
Firmware: 1.0. Max speed: Unknown
166% Outstanding
Read 346
Write 232
Mixed 178
187% 252 MB/s
4K Read 0.75
4K Write 0.35
4K Mixed 0.15
55% 0.42 MB/s
527GB free
Firmware: 1.0. Max speed: Unknown
144% Outstanding
Read 263
Write 241
Mixed 152
162% 219 MB/s
4K Read 1.43
4K Write 2.52
4K Mixed 0.42
153% 1.46 MB/s
347GB free
Firmware: 1.0. Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s
75.9% Very good
Read 204
Write 60.9
Mixed 60
80% 108 MB/s
4K Read 0.73
4K Write 1.41
4K Mixed 0.31
92% 0.82 MB/s

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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 53,335,575 HDDs tested

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Gaming
Gaming 24%
Surfboard
Desktop
Desktop 76%
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Workstation
Workstation 20%
Surfboard

Motherboard: Asus P8H77-V - $110

CPU
Core i7-3770Intel  $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples228x
Core i5-3470Intel  $59Bench 63%, 223,595 samples89x
Core i7-3770KIntel  $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples86x
GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia  $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples86x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples66x
HD 2500 (Desktop 1.05 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 146,665 samples54x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples32x
A400 240GBKingston  $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples28x
TOSHIBA-TR200 240GBBench 71%, 36,832 samples25x
RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples26x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples22x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples17x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 62% - Good Total price: $566

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