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Seagate

Backup+ Desk 4TB

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Release date ≈ Q4 2014.

Average Bench: 60.6% (185th of 1015)

Based on 3,378 user benchmarks.  Model: Seagate Backup+ Desk
Poor: 15%Average: 60.6% Great: 99%

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Above average average bench

The Seagate Backup+ Desk 4TB averaged 39.3% 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 0.67MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 1.95MB/s

Terrible consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Seagate Backup+ Desk 4TB is 83.8%. This is a particularly wide range which indicates that the Seagate Backup+ Desk 4TB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 58.3MB/s
Avg. Sequential Write Speed 85.7MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 3,378 samples)
Rank 18560.6%
Min Avg Max
30.1 Read 109 176
23.8 Write 85.7 144
22.5 Mixed 58.3 82.7
18.6 SusWrite 103 172
65.1% 88.8 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.5 4K Read 0.73 1.1
1.4 4K Write 1.95 4.5
0.5 4K Mixed 0.67 0.8
142% 1.12 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
420GB free
Firmware: 0342
SusWrite @10s intervals: 139 141 142 139 141 144 MB/s
83.4% Excellent
Read 150
Write 78
Mixed 74.2
SusWrite 141
81% 111 MB/s
4K Read 0.6
4K Write 1.7
4K Mixed 0.7
134% 1 MB/s
3.5TB free
Firmware: 040B
SusWrite @10s intervals: 160 160 161 163 164 164 MB/s
69.6% Good
Read 80.4
Write 52.9
Mixed 62.7
SusWrite 162
66% 89.5 MB/s
4K Read 0.6
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.7
130% 0.93 MB/s
1TB free
Firmware: 0342
SusWrite @10s intervals: 105 104 109 109 108 104 MB/s
60.3% Good
Read 104
Write 78
Mixed 58.7
SusWrite 106
64% 86.7 MB/s
4K Read 0.5
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.7
126% 0.9 MB/s
1TB free
Firmware: 040B
SusWrite @10s intervals: 91 91 94 93 95 95 MB/s
52.3% Above average
Read 88.7
Write 80.2
Mixed 66.7
SusWrite 93.3
61% 82.2 MB/s
4K Read 0.6
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.8
142% 0.97 MB/s
67GB free
Firmware: 0342
SusWrite @10s intervals: 80 81 81 81 82 80 MB/s
43.3% Average
Read 69.8
Write 44.9
Mixed 49.1
SusWrite 80.8
45% 61.2 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.5
4K Mixed 0.6
124% 0.93 MB/s
1.5TB free
Firmware: 040B
SusWrite @10s intervals: 11 11 11 11 11 11 MB/s
11.6% Very poor
Read 28.7
Write 29.8
Mixed 28.2
SusWrite 10.9
18% 24.4 MB/s
4K Read 2.9
4K Write 0.4
4K Mixed 0.9
228% 1.4 MB/s
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 53,943,311 HDDs tested

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Desktop 94%
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Workstation 130%
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Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) - $200

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Ryzen 7 3700XAMD  $138Bench 86%, 635,419 samples4,805x
Ryzen 7 5800XAMD  $158Bench 98%, 89,263 samples4,421x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD  $124Bench 96%, 383,420 samples3,541x
GPU
RTX 3070Nvidia  $400Bench 148%, 619,642 samples2,326x
RTX 3080Nvidia  $730Bench 187%, 424,051 samples2,145x
RTX 2070S (Super)Nvidia  $387Bench 115%, 663,603 samples1,526x
SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $116Bench 310%, 455,997 samples1,908x
980 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $118Bench 385%, 327,441 samples1,141x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $100Bench 297%, 331,647 samples896x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples796x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $55Bench 85%, 346,786 samples757x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBCorsair  $130Bench 89%, 144,399 samples669x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 98% - Outstanding Total price: $894

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