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Toshiba

MD04ACA500 (TurboPC EX) 5TB

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Release date ≈ Q4 2015.

Average Bench: 81.9% (66th of 1015)

Based on 2 user benchmarks.  Model: TOSHIBA MD04ACA500 (TurboPC EX)
Poor: 74%Average: 81.9% Great: 89%

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Very good average bench

The Toshiba MD04ACA500 (TurboPC EX) 5TB averaged just 18.1% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the Toshiba MD04ACA500 (TurboPC EX) 5TB near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 2.03MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 0.7MB/s

Unknown consistency

There are too few samples to reasonably determine how consistently this HDD perfroms. This result should be interpreted with caution.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 95MB/s
Avg. Sustained Write Speed 134MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 2 samples)
Rank 6681.9%
Min Avg Max
124 Read 141 158
126 Write 140 153
50.3 Mixed 95 140
134 SusWrite 134 134
94% 128 MB/s
Min Avg Max
1.8 4K Read 2.03 2.26
2.06 4K Write 2.08 2.1
0.3 4K Mixed 0.7 1.1
201% 1.6 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
21GB free
Firmware: FP2A
SusWrite @10s intervals: 118 129 140 131 152 135 MB/s
74.4% Very good
Read 124
Write 126
Mixed 50.3
SusWrite 134
79% 109 MB/s
4K Read 1.8
4K Write 2.1
4K Mixed 1.1
236% 1.67 MB/s

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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 53,544,471 HDDs tested

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Gaming 43%
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Desktop 85%
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Workstation 36%
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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO - $215

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel  $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples335x
Core i7-4790Intel  $132Bench 71%, 255,027 samples82x
Core i5-4690KIntel  $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples69x
GPU
GTX 970Nvidia  $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples71x
GTX 1070Nvidia  $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples45x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia  $350Bench 124%, 840,268 samples35x
SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples21x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples18x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $60Bench 275%, 495,311 samples17x
RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples22x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples19x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples16x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 63% - Good Total price: $848

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