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USB3.0 2TB

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Release date ≈ Q3 2019.

Average Bench: 122% (1st of 1015)

Based on 2 user benchmarks.  Model: External USB3.0
Poor: 108%Average: 122% Great: 137%

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Outstanding average bench

The External USB3.0 2TB averaged 22.4% higher than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the External USB3.0 2TB near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 3.2MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 3.45MB/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. Sustained Write Speed 193MB/s
Avg. Sequential Write Speed 219MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 2 samples)
Rank 1122%
Min Avg Max
221 Read 233 244
192 Write 219 246
187 Mixed 211 236
155 SusWrite 193 231
159% 214 MB/s
Min Avg Max
3 4K Read 3.45 3.9
2.5 4K Write 3.1 3.7
2.6 4K Mixed 3.2 3.8
557% 3.25 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
886GB free
Firmware: 0204
SusWrite @10s intervals: 213 220 235 233 242 246 MB/s
137% Outstanding
Read 244
Write 246
Mixed 236
SusWrite 231
178% 240 MB/s
4K Read 3.9
4K Write 3.7
4K Mixed 3.8
653% 3.8 MB/s
886GB free
Firmware: 0204
SusWrite @10s intervals: 154 166 163 148 155 144 MB/s
108% Outstanding
Read 221
Write 192
Mixed 187
SusWrite 155
140% 189 MB/s
4K Read 3
4K Write 2.5
4K Mixed 2.6
460% 2.7 MB/s

 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 53,934,200 HDDs tested

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Gaming 83%
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Desktop 73%
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Workstation 74%
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System: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)

CPU
KVM processorCommonBench 64%, 2,228 samples43x
Ryzen 7 3700X 8-CoreAMDBench 76%, 455 samples21x
Ryzen 9 5900X 12-CoreAMDBench 92%, 160 samples13x
GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia  $237Bench 124%, 840,268 samples37x
RTX 3060-TiNvidia  $399Bench 128%, 442,467 samples31x
GTX 1080Nvidia  $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples28x
SSD
HARDDISK 2TBQemuBench 64%, 25 samples19x
HARDDISK 500GBQemuBench 59%, 94 samples18x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $90Bench 251%, 262,559 samples16x
RAM
1x16GBQEMUBench 91%, 3,887 samples143x
1x8GBQEMUBench 78%, 5,342 samples74x
1x12GBQEMUBench 78%, 4,175 samples66x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 124% - Outstanding Total price: $237

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