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Akitio

Safe 4TB

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Release date ≈ Q4 2018.

Average Bench: 56% (237th of 1015)

Based on 5 user benchmarks.  Model: AKiTiO Safe
Poor: 43%Average: 56% Great: 62%

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Average average bench

The Akitio Safe 4TB averaged 43.9% 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 0.6MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 1.1MB/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 Write Speed 37.7MB/s
Avg. Sustained Write Speed 38.3MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 5 samples)
Rank 23756%
Min Avg Max
117 Read 157 175
30.4 Write 37.7 44.4
33.8 Mixed 44.4 55.5
32.3 SusWrite 38.3 44.9
50.9% 69.4 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.9 4K Read 1.1 1.3
0.4 4K Write 0.5 0.6
0.5 4K Mixed 0.6 0.7
122% 0.73 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
2TB free
Firmware: 2109A06B
SusWrite @10s intervals: 45 45 45 45 45 45 MB/s
62.5% Good
Read 173
Write 44.4
Mixed 55.5
SusWrite 44.9
58% 79.4 MB/s
4K Read 1.3
4K Write 0.5
4K Mixed 0.7
141% 0.83 MB/s
3.5TB free
Firmware: 2109A06B
SusWrite @10s intervals: 35 35 36 36 35 35 MB/s
60.4% Good
Read 175
Write 33.9
Mixed 37.3
SusWrite 35.4
51% 70.5 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 0.4
4K Mixed 0.5
105% 0.63 MB/s
3.5TB free
Firmware: 2109A06B
SusWrite @10s intervals: 43 41 40 43 40 39 MB/s
57.7% Above average
Read 160
Write 41.5
Mixed 47.5
SusWrite 41
53% 72.6 MB/s
4K Read 1.2
4K Write 0.6
4K Mixed 0.6
128% 0.8 MB/s
3.5TB free
Firmware: 2109A06B
SusWrite @10s intervals: 38 41 36 38 37 37 MB/s
56.8% Above average
Read 160
Write 38.5
Mixed 47.7
SusWrite 37.9
52% 71 MB/s
4K Read 1.1
4K Write 0.6
4K Mixed 0.7
135% 0.8 MB/s
2TB free
Firmware: 2109A06B
SusWrite @10s intervals: 31 32 32 33 33 33 MB/s
42.8% Average
Read 117
Write 30.4
Mixed 33.8
SusWrite 32.3
39% 53.3 MB/s
4K Read 0.9
4K Write 0.4
4K Mixed 0.5
100% 0.6 MB/s

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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 53,306,442 HDDs tested

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Gaming
Gaming 182%
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Desktop
Desktop 94%
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Workstation
Workstation 279%
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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-TRX40 DESIGNARE

CPU
Ryzen TR 3960XAMD  $1,350Bench 87%, 6,609 samples54x
Ryzen TR 3970XAMD  $1,900Bench 86%, 5,130 samples35x
Ryzen TR 3990XAMDBench 86%, 1,222 samples6x
GPU
RTX 3090Nvidia  $1,306Bench 210%, 158,856 samples25x
RTX 3080-TiNvidia  $660Bench 204%, 155,335 samples11x
RTX 3070-TiNvidia  $600Bench 158%, 218,061 samples8x
SSD
980 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $98Bench 394%, 276,089 samples14x
980 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 2TBSamsung  $168Bench 416%, 138,083 samples10x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples4x
RAM
HyperX DDR4 3200 C18 4x8GBKingstonBench 99%, 3,434 samples10x
Vengeance LPX CMK64GX4M2D3600C18 2x31.5GBCorsairBench 95%, 8,435 samples4x
KF3600C18D4/32GX 8x31.9GBKingstonBench 178%, 27 samples4x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 51% - Above average Total price: $2,754

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