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DT01ACA100 1TB

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Release date: Q1 2013.

Average Bench: 84% (57th of 1015)

Based on 763,289 user benchmarks.  Models: TOSHIBA DT01ACA100, TOSHIBA DT01ACA1

The 1TB Toshiba DT01ACA100 is a 3.5" desktop hard drive. With a rotation speed of 7,200 RPM and peak/idle power consumption of 6.4/3.7 Watts the DT01ACA100 is a reasonably power efficient desktop drive. The DT01ACA100 has peak sequential read/write speeds of 175 MBps and peak 4k read/write speeds of 0.76/2.06 MBps. These figures produce an overall effective speed of 132 MBps which places it around the middle of the 1TB pack in terms of typical consumer performance. The larger capacity variants of this drive are both faster and offer better value for money. [Nov '14 HDrivePro]

Poor: 47%Average: 84% Great: 107%

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Very good average bench

The Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB averaged just 16.0% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 0.58MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 150MB/s

Poor consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB is 60.1%. This is a particularly wide range which indicates that the Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 31.8MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 0.74MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 763,289 samples)
Rank 5784%
Min Avg Max
74.5 Read 150 188
78.3 Write 142 184
20.6 Mixed 31.8 40.3
77 SusWrite 143 189
84.2% 117 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.4 4K Read 0.74 1.1
1.1 4K Write 1.86 2.2
0.3 4K Mixed 0.58 0.7
129% 1.06 MB/s
User Benchmarks BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
457GB free
Firmware: MS2OA8L0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 167 149 164 151 155 139 MB/s
89.1% Excellent
Read 156
Write 149
Mixed 37.2
SusWrite 154
90% 124 MB/s
4K Read 0.9
4K Write 2
4K Mixed 0.5
130% 1.13 MB/s
526GB free (System drive)
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 108 139 133 132 108 139 MB/s
80.2% Excellent
Read 153
Write 148
Mixed 46
SusWrite 126
86% 118 MB/s
4K Read 0.6
4K Write 1.6
4K Mixed 0.7
132% 0.97 MB/s
227GB free
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 124 124 121 121 129 124 MB/s
73.9% Very good
Read 134
Write 108
Mixed 34.2
SusWrite 124
72% 99.8 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 2
4K Mixed 0.7
144% 1.13 MB/s
105GB free (System drive)
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 131 111 76 72 88 108 MB/s
63.5% Good
Read 124
Write 127
Mixed 28.1
SusWrite 97.6
68% 94.1 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 2
4K Mixed 0.7
144% 1.13 MB/s
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MSRP ≈ $55 @ launch in Jan '13
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Typical DT01ACA100 1TB Builds (Compare 2,164 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 39%
Jet ski
Desktop
Desktop 72%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 31%
Sail boat

System: Asus G11CD

CPU
Core i5-6400Intel  $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples1,262x
Core i7-6700Intel  $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples813x
Core i7-6700KIntel  $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples60x
GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples466x
GTX 970Nvidia  $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples370x
GTX 950Nvidia  $100Bench 26%, 111,509 samples191x
SSD
SD8SB8U512G1002 512GBSandiskBench 81%, 2,367 samples171x
HFS256G32MND-2200A 256GBBench 70%, 3,087 samples80x
SD8SBAT128G1002 128GBSandiskBench 58%, 3,654 samples73x
RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 22,760 samples346x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 1x8GBHynixBench 39%, 16,202 samples335x
ASU21D4U5S8MB-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 67%, 1,185 samples143x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 103% - Outstanding Total price: $196

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 Comments

HDrivePro
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1,391

Official site storage.toshiba.eu/...

Toshiba’s 7200 RPM 3.5-inch (8.9cm) HDD series...

Added 9 years ago.
USA-User
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9,840

Poor (edit your comment) Add link

6 months ago.

I am still using the original HD installed in this circa December 2013 HP Computer. Showing 33,312 power on hours.

TUR-User
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5,524

Poor

2 years ago.

After 1 month of use this hdd start making a clicking noise (especially on heavy load) and some weird parking sounds (After this parking sound hdd will not responding for a couple of second it needs to spin up a little bit 3 or 5 second for return to normal state, which is not good, so fixing this issue I changed windows power setting never let the hdd to park itself *sigh). It's not very reliable product. This sounds it's not effecting the performance but it's makes me worry. I'll never going to buy any toshiba products again!

CAN-User
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4,960

Excellent

9 months ago.

It sucked to use it with a OS on this hard drive but after upgrading my computer to an SSD and wiping the hard drive, I am using this drive as a secondary drive for data, and its read/write sequential of it is now pretty impressive which makes this hard drive good for storing spare data.

BRA-User
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4,637

Poor

5 years ago.

the HD is dying after 1 year and 7 months, with click noise and getting slow sometimes

NLD-User
Avatar level
3,510

Poor

7 years ago.

hdd died after 1 year, getting real low reading and writing speeds

PHL-User
Avatar level
3,370

Excellent

2 years ago.

This is the first HDD I have on this computer, I bought 2 others (Seagate) And they didn't even last 1 year before failing. This HDD is 3 years and counting now

ARG-User
Avatar level
3,228

Excellent

4 years ago.

I try to play games on it and what it causes is not even reaching loading textures, i have 16 ram - 1060 6gb - fx 6300 Deus ex Mankind Divided didn't load lots of things too and i'm pretty sure that's because of this

SWE-User
Avatar level
2,784

Excellent

2 years ago.

So far it held up near a decade, obviously I've changed my boot drive to an ssd one, but hdds are still fantastic for what's it's intended, storing data.

SRB-User
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2,780

Excellent

2 years ago.

Been Using It For Six Years Under Heavy Load. Still Works Perfectly.

ISR-User
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2,338

Good

7 months ago.

I could re-type the files faster than this drive's transfer speed

BGD-User
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1,796

Excellent

3 years ago.

Ive been using this for 6 years with gtx 1070 and 16gb ram....its working excellent for me..... 3

HDrivePro
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1,391

Very good

9 years ago.

ProshotJake
Avatar level
28

Poor

3 years ago.

It's a HDD, and a cheap one at that. Many people have complained about this drive. I've never had any issues personally, but be warned.

RuDeMaN
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22

Excellent

13 months ago.

I have 1

AnjoGabrielSM
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8

Excellent

6 years ago.

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Rasteri
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2

Good

7 years ago.

Works fine for me

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