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Seagate ST12000VN0007

IronWolf 12TB (2017)

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Release date ≈ Q4 2017.

Average Bench: 75% (105th of 1014)

Based on 14 user benchmarks.  Models: ST12000VN0007-2GS116, ST12000VN0007-2G, ST12000V N0007-2GS116
Poor: 29%Average: 75% Great: 94%

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Good average bench

The Seagate IronWolf 12TB (2017) averaged 25.0% 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 1.26MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 3.11MB/s

Poor consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Seagate IronWolf 12TB (2017) is 64.8%. This is a particularly wide range which indicates that the Seagate IronWolf 12TB (2017) performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 92.4MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 121MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 14 samples)
Rank 10575%
Min Avg Max
19 Read 121 216
72 Write 141 200
6.2 Mixed 92.4 172
21.8 SusWrite 128 191
88.8% 120 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.31 4K Read 3.11 6
0.2 4K Write 2.17 3.7
0.16 4K Mixed 1.26 2.7
309% 2.18 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
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Gaming
Gaming 106%
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Desktop
Desktop 131%
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Workstation
Workstation 116%
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Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 GAMING PLUS (MS-7C37) - $168

CPU
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD  $285Bench 92%, 135,558 samples3,264x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD  $175Bench 88%, 198,622 samples2,968x
Ryzen 5 3600XAMD  $200Bench 90%, 68,284 samples1,399x
GPU
RX 5700-XTAMD  $370Bench 106%, 109,626 samples1,399x
RTX 2070S (Super)Nvidia  $500Bench 111%, 117,297 samples1,162x
GTX 1070Nvidia  $399Bench 78%, 774,000 samples579x
SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $120Bench 291%, 86,101 samples735x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $100Bench 269%, 164,252 samples440x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $183Bench 304%, 78,069 samples363x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $84Bench 83%, 204,656 samples840x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $75Bench 82%, 325,996 samples447x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $95Bench 84%, 77,030 samples423x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 75% - Very good Total price: $1,027

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5 months ago.

Currently one of the highest capacity HDD or storage devices to appear in UserBenchmark. Performance is slightly slower than much more popular and mainstream Seagate Barracuda 1TB/2TB and WD Blue 1TB. Can potentially store thousand (if not tens of thousand and more) games (not even recent triple-A ones which bogs up large amount of storage!) but transferring all of them requires waiting for couple hours to few days.

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