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DT01ACA100 1TB

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Release date: Q1 2013.

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Average Bench: 79.6% (84th of 1015)

Based on 278,204 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: 36%Average: 79.6% Great: 107%

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Good average bench

The Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB averaged 20.3% 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 0.56MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 145MB/s

Very poor consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB is 70.6%. 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 32.4MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 0.66MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 278,204 samples)
Rank 8479.6%
Min Avg Max
28.9 Read 145 190
53.9 Write 138 186
20.8 Mixed 32.4 39.9
62.7 SusWrite 133 186
81% 112 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.2 4K Read 0.66 0.8
0.7 4K Write 1.79 2.2
0.2 4K Mixed 0.56 0.7
123% 1 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
413GB free (System drive)
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 139 150 163 165 176 168 MB/s
99.9% Outstanding
Read 188
Write 179
Mixed 35.7
SusWrite 160
102% 141 MB/s
4K Read 0.6
4K Write 1.8
4K Mixed 0.3
92% 0.9 MB/s
767GB free
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 144 172 174 175 175 176 MB/s
99.3% Outstanding
Read 177
Write 167
Mixed 35.3
SusWrite 169
99% 137 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 2.1
4K Mixed 0.5
128% 1.13 MB/s
259GB free
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 132 136 134 136 128 138 MB/s
95.6% Outstanding
Read 199
Write 188
Mixed 36.8
SusWrite 134
101% 140 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.7
4K Mixed 0.6
132% 1.03 MB/s
885GB free (System drive)
Firmware: MS2OA7S0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 142 159 165 137 139 141 MB/s
91% Outstanding
Read 170
Write 189
Mixed 38
SusWrite 147
98% 136 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 2.1
4K Mixed 0.7
146% 1.17 MB/s
278GB free
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 123 104 101 115 117 137 MB/s
76.2% Very good
Read 150
Write 127
Mixed 21.7
SusWrite 116
75% 104 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 0.5
4K Mixed 0.4
83% 0.53 MB/s
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 Prices

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Gaming
Gaming 62%
Destroyer
Desktop
Desktop 57%
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Workstation
Workstation 35%
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System: Asus G11CD

CPU
Core i5-6400Intel  $182Bench 65%, 72,359 samples2,296x
Core i7-6700Intel  $303Bench 77%, 110,649 samples1,061x
Core i7-6700KIntel  $290Bench 88%, 295,422 samples29x
GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $208Bench 70%, 570,243 samples846x
GTX 970Nvidia  $374Bench 63%, 433,580 samples715x
GTX 950Nvidia  $170Bench 33%, 58,064 samples390x
SSD
SD8SB8U512G1002 512GBSandiskBench 77%, 703 samples366x
SD8SBAT128G1002 128GBSandiskBench 57%, 1,124 samples158x
HFS256G32MND-2200A 256GBBench 70%, 1,660 samples140x
RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 1x8GBHynixBench 39%, 6,602 samples1,114x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 8,313 samples504x
ASU21D4U5S8MB-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 69%, 445 samples272x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 91% - Outstanding Total price: $390

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 Comments

HDrivePro
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Official site storage.toshiba.eu/...

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

Added 4 years ago.
USA-User
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5,182

Disliked (edit your comment) Add link

5 months ago.

TUR-User
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3,164

Good

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!

BRA-User
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2,717

Poor

11 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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2,008

Poor

2 years ago.

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

ARG-User
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1,954

Poor

23 days 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

HDrivePro
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891

Very good

4 years ago.

AnjoGabrielSM
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8

Excellent

14 months ago.

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Rasteri
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2

Good

2 years ago.

Works fine for me

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