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Seagate

BUP Slim SL 500GB

▲ 500 ▼

Release date ≈ Q1 2015.

Average Bench: 37.7% (544th of 1015)

Based on 326 user benchmarks.  Model: Seagate BUP Slim SL
Poor: 16%Average: 37.7% Great: 60%

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Poor average bench

The Seagate BUP Slim SL 500GB averaged 62.2% 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 0.39MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 0.45MB/s

Average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Seagate BUP Slim SL 500GB is 44.9%. This is a relatively wide range which indicates that the Seagate BUP Slim SL 500GB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 0.68MB/s
Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 46.1MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 326 samples)
Rank 54437.7%
Min Avg Max
27.6 Read 66.4 108
23.6 Write 64 105
22.1 Mixed 46.1 91.7
19.9 SusWrite 64.5 107
44.4% 60.3 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.29 4K Read 0.45 0.5
0.4 4K Write 0.68 0.8
0.12 4K Mixed 0.39 0.6
74.8% 0.51 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
116GB free
Firmware: 6408
SusWrite @10s intervals: 56 57 58 57 57 57 MB/s
45.9% Average
Read 103
Write 99.5
Mixed 54.2
SusWrite 57
58% 78.5 MB/s
4K Read 0.5
4K Write 0.7
4K Mixed 0.5
89% 0.57 MB/s
165GB free
Firmware: 0304
SusWrite @10s intervals: 80 79 79 79 80 78 MB/s
45.2% Average
Read 78.6
Write 79.2
Mixed 46.2
SusWrite 79.1
52% 70.8 MB/s
4K Read 0.5
4K Write 0.7
4K Mixed 0.5
89% 0.57 MB/s
116GB free
Firmware: 6408
SusWrite @10s intervals: 97 96 96 97 96 98 MB/s
41.4% Average
Read 48
Write 57.4
Mixed 37.3
SusWrite 96.5
44% 59.8 MB/s
4K Read 0.5
4K Write 0.5
4K Mixed 0.4
74% 0.47 MB/s
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Gaming 34%
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Desktop 78%
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Workstation 31%
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System: Lenovo 82B5

CPU
Ryzen 5 4600HAMDBench 70%, 27,218 samples1,105x
Ryzen 7 4800HAMDBench 74%, 20,504 samples398x
GPU
GTX 1650-Ti (Mobile)NvidiaBench 42%, 33,798 samples607x
GeForce GTX 1650NvidiaBench 40%, 34,471 samples497x
RX Vega 8 4000 (iGPU)AMDBench 13%, 162,082 samples399x
SSD
MZVLB256HBHQ-000L2 256GBSamsungBench 198%, 9,460 samples357x
MZALQ512HALU-000L2 512GBSamsungBench 136%, 14,504 samples157x
SKHynix_HFM512GDHTNI-87A0B 512GBBench 169%, 11,687 samples129x
RAM
LV32D4S2S8HD-8 1x8GBKingstonBench 48%, 8,552 samples319x
M471A1K43DB1-CWE 1x8GBSamsungBench 45%, 34,565 samples162x
LV32D4S2S8HD-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 91%, 10,928 samples105x
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