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Intenso

External USB 3.0 4TB

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Release date ≈ Q1 2017.

Average Bench: 57.9% (209th of 1015)

Based on 638 user benchmarks.  Model: Intenso External USB 3.0
Poor: 14%Average: 57.9% Great: 97%

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Average average bench

The Intenso External USB 3.0 4TB averaged 42.1% 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 0.74MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 1.8MB/s

Terrible consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Intenso External USB 3.0 4TB is 83.1%. This is a particularly wide range which indicates that the Intenso External USB 3.0 4TB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 75.4MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 98.3MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 638 samples)
Rank 20957.9%
Min Avg Max
27.8 Read 98.3 172
26.1 Write 102 167
24.7 Mixed 75.4 128
17.2 SusWrite 102 177
69.7% 94.5 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.5 4K Read 1.8 5.6
1 4K Write 3.31 5.45
0.3 4K Mixed 0.74 1.1
219% 1.95 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
1.5TB free
Firmware: 1402
SusWrite @10s intervals: 38 40 41 39 40 41 MB/s
22.8% Poor
Read 37.9
Write 40.4
Mixed 30
SusWrite 39.9
27% 37.1 MB/s
4K Read 1.6
4K Write 3.8
4K Mixed 0.5
193% 1.97 MB/s
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 53,955,979 HDDs tested

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Workstation 73%
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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X99-Gaming 5

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel  $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples158x
Core i7-5930KIntel  $116Bench 80%, 34,039 samples51x
Core i7-6800KIntel  $90Bench 81%, 50,196 samples16x
GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia  $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples26x
GTX 970Nvidia  $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples24x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia  $237Bench 124%, 840,268 samples21x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples16x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $84Bench 273%, 381,216 samples9x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston  $95Bench 64%, 176,713 samples8x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair  $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples10x
Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2400 C15 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 2,702 samples8x
Team-Elite-2400 8x4GBTeamBench 121%, 40 samples7x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 83% - Excellent Total price: $540

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