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DT01ACA100 1TB

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Release date: Q1 2013.

Average Bench: 78.4% (88th of 1015)

Based on 443,434 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]

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Poor: 34%Average: 78.4% Great: 108%

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Good average bench

The Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB averaged 21.6% 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 0.57MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 144MB/s

Very poor consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB is 73.5%. 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 31.7MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 0.66MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 443,434 samples)
Rank 8878.4%
Min Avg Max
29.1 Read 144 190
65.7 Write 139 186
19.7 Mixed 31.7 39.5
62.1 SusWrite 129 188
80.2% 111 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.2 4K Read 0.66 1
0.8 4K Write 1.8 2.2
0.2 4K Mixed 0.57 0.7
124% 1.01 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
744GB free
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 159 177 169 174 184 183 MB/s
98.2% Outstanding
Read 168
Write 176
Mixed 34.3
SusWrite 174
100% 138 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.8
4K Mixed 0.6
129% 1.03 MB/s
415GB free
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 125 127 132 127 134 133 MB/s
91.2% Outstanding
Read 188
Write 194
Mixed 36.7
SusWrite 130
99% 137 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 2
4K Mixed 0.6
133% 1.1 MB/s
97GB free (System drive)
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 106 101 96 101 124 79 MB/s
73.8% Very good
Read 156
Write 142
Mixed 31.2
SusWrite 101
78% 108 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.6
4K Mixed 0.7
137% 1 MB/s
325GB free
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 113 108 119 121 121 120 MB/s
64.2% Good
Read 107
Write 134
Mixed 30
SusWrite 117
70% 96.9 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.9
4K Mixed 0.7
142% 1.1 MB/s
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 Prices

Approx. $55 @ launch in Jan '13
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Gaming
Gaming 53%
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Desktop
Desktop 64%
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Workstation
Workstation 42%
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System: Asus G11CD

CPU
Core i5-6400Intel  $179Bench 69%, 105,566 samples3,782x
Core i7-6700Intel  $299Bench 77%, 160,168 samples1,784x
Core i7-6700KIntel  $290Bench 85%, 385,752 samples61x
GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $252Bench 57%, 789,870 samples1,306x
GTX 970Nvidia  $395Bench 52%, 541,463 samples1,165x
GTX 950Nvidia  $170Bench 26%, 77,128 samples633x
SSD
SD8SB8U512G1002 512GBSandiskBench 80%, 1,214 samples557x
SD8SBAT128G1002 128GBSandiskBench 58%, 2,146 samples242x
HFS128G32MND-2200A 128GBBench 62%, 1,171 samples203x
RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 1x8GBHynixBench 39%, 10,332 samples1,740x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 72%, 11,380 samples805x
ASU21D4U5S8MB-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 619 samples410x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 64% - Good Total price: $431

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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 5 years ago.
USA-User
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Disliked (edit your comment) Add link

1 month ago.

TUR-User
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3,898

Good

3 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!

BRA-User
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3,309

Poor

24 months ago.

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

NLD-User
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2,432

Poor

3 years ago.

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

ARG-User
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2,420

Excellent

11 months 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

ISR-User
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1,656

Excellent

26 days ago.

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

HDrivePro
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1,391

Very good

5 years ago.

Hafi
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12

Excellent

3 months ago.

Even after 5 years, it works like a charm.

AnjoGabrielSM
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8

Excellent

2 years ago.

❦

Rasteri
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2

Good

3 years ago.

Works fine for me

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