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DT01ACA100 1TB

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Release date: Q1 2013.

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Average Bench: 77.9% (94th of 1010)

Based on 194,844 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: 77.9% Great: 107%

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Good average bench

The Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB averaged 22.0% 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 0.55MB/s
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 143MB/s

Very poor consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB is 73.6%. 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 32.5MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 0.65MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 194,844 samples)
Rank 9477.9%
Min Avg Max
25.4 Read 143 189
58 Write 139 187
20.7 Mixed 32.5 40.7
59.5 SusWrite 129 188
80.2% 111 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.2 4K Read 0.65 0.8
0.9 4K Write 1.79 2.2
0.2 4K Mixed 0.55 0.7
121% 1 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
811GB free (System drive)
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 92 138 120 168 167 170 MB/s
92.9% Outstanding
Read 182
Write 153
Mixed 40.5
SusWrite 143
94% 129 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 2
4K Mixed 0.5
122% 1.07 MB/s
603GB free (System drive)
Firmware: MS2O
SusWrite @10s intervals: 162 121 158 170 180 177 MB/s
78.6% Very good
Read 113
Write 131
Mixed 35.7
SusWrite 161
80% 110 MB/s
4K Read 0.6
4K Write 2
4K Mixed 0.5
118% 1.03 MB/s
437GB free
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 138 134 142 144 144 144 MB/s
78.6% Very good
Read 133
Write 131
Mixed 31
SusWrite 141
79% 109 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.8
4K Mixed 0.6
129% 1.03 MB/s
8GB free
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 92 84 90 90 91 94 MB/s
48.9% Average
Read 80
Write 68.5
Mixed 20
SusWrite 90.3
47% 64.7 MB/s
4K Read 0.6
4K Write 1.7
4K Mixed 0.6
123% 0.97 MB/s
259GB free
Firmware: MS2O
SusWrite @10s intervals: 128 149 149 149 154 151 MB/s
47.2% Average
Read 17.5
Write 142
Mixed 20
SusWrite 147
59% 81.7 MB/s
4K Read 0.1
4K Write 2.2
4K Mixed 0.1
56% 0.8 MB/s
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Gaming
Gaming 63%
Destroyer
Desktop
Desktop 56%
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Workstation
Workstation 35%
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System: Asus G11CD

CPU
Core i5-6400Intel  $182Bench 66%, 52,679 samples1,598x
Core i7-6700Intel  $303Bench 75%, 83,014 samples722x
Core i7-6700KIntel  $280Bench 87%, 209,763 samples16x
GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $243Bench 71%, 371,092 samples608x
GTX 970Nvidia  $300Bench 64%, 328,704 samples476x
GTX 950Nvidia  $153Bench 33%, 50,749 samples290x
SSD
SD8SB8U512G1002 512GBSandiskBench 68%, 528 samples267x
SD8SBAT128G1002 128GBSandiskBench 55%, 1,120 samples109x
HFS256G32MND-2200A 256GBBench 69%, 1,630 samples108x
RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 1x8GBHynixBench 39%, 6,946 samples820x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 6,016 samples360x
ASU21D4U5S8MB-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 69%, 322 samples190x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 87% - Excellent Total price: $425

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 Comments

HDrivePro
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891

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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4,474

Good (edit your comment) Add link

1 day ago.

So this piece of hardware somehow lasted over 4 years of pretty intense use. AKA gaming with max setting on games such as CSGO, Gary's Mod (with 80 GB of addons), but the most ironic thing of them all is that minecraft modded was the slowest loading thing. and also similar to TUR-User level 2,492's case, the strange clicking noise started, but somehow it took mine 3 and a half years of extreme use to push it over the edge (may of had something to with using a very strong compressed air gun to clean it)

TUR-User
Avatar level
2,710

Good

19 months 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
Avatar level
2,337

Poor

5 months ago.

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

NLD-User
Avatar level
1,798

Poor

22 months ago.

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

HDrivePro
Avatar level
891

Very good

4 years ago.

AnjoGabrielSM
Avatar level
8

Excellent

8 months ago.

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Rasteri
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2

Good

21 months ago.

Works fine for me

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