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DT01ACA100 1TB

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Release date: Q1 2013.

Average Bench: 80% (81st of 1015)

Based on 694,307 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: 36%Average: 80% Great: 106%

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Very good average bench

The Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB averaged just 19.9% 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 70.2%. 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 31.4MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 0.71MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 694,307 samples)
Rank 8180%
Min Avg Max
27.1 Read 144 187
47.4 Write 136 185
18.6 Mixed 31.4 40
59.5 SusWrite 135 189
80.6% 111 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.2 4K Read 0.71 1
0.8 4K Write 1.82 2.2
0.2 4K Mixed 0.57 0.7
126% 1.03 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
743GB free
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 150 153 159 154 161 161 MB/s
91.7% Outstanding
Read 163
Write 158
Mixed 34.1
SusWrite 156
92% 128 MB/s
4K Read 0.8
4K Write 1.9
4K Mixed 0.6
135% 1.1 MB/s
124GB free
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 115 117 120 120 161 145 MB/s
79.4% Very good
Read 147
Write 155
Mixed 31
SusWrite 130
84% 116 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.9
4K Mixed 0.7
142% 1.1 MB/s
177GB free
Firmware: MS2OA750
SusWrite @10s intervals: 136 139 144 143 144 143 MB/s
76.5% Very good
Read 125
Write 128
Mixed 26
SusWrite 142
76% 105 MB/s
4K Read 0.7
4K Write 1.8
4K Mixed 0.7
140% 1.07 MB/s
418GB free
Firmware: MS2OA8L0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 107 113 112 111 112 111 MB/s
73.6% Very good
Read 145
Write 101
Mixed 22.2
SusWrite 111
68% 94.8 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 1.9
4K Mixed 0.7
155% 1.2 MB/s
636GB free (System drive)
Firmware: MS2OA7L0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 72 85 71 66 76 65 MB/s
46% Average
Read 87.8
Write 86
Mixed 29.2
SusWrite 72.5
50% 68.9 MB/s
4K Read 0.6
4K Write 0.7
4K Mixed 0.3
71% 0.53 MB/s
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 Prices

MSRP ≈ $55 @ launch in Jan '13
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Gaming
Gaming 37%
Jet ski
Desktop
Desktop 76%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 29%
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System: Asus G11CD

CPU
Core i5-6400Intel  $180Bench 69%, 141,256 samples2,118x
Core i7-6700Intel  $350Bench 75%, 248,564 samples1,081x
Core i7-6700KIntel  $310Bench 83%, 522,607 samples63x
GPU
GTX 970Nvidia  $340Bench 50%, 678,188 samples666x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $290Bench 57%, 1,217,004 samples662x
GTX 950Nvidia  $170Bench 26%, 100,232 samples327x
SSD
SD8SB8U512G1002 512GBSandiskBench 79%, 2,016 samples298x
SD8SBAT128G1002 128GBSandiskBench 58%, 2,775 samples113x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $75Bench 106%, 679,494 samples109x
RAM
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 1x8GBHynixBench 39%, 16,541 samples738x
HMA41GU6AFR8N-TF 2x8GBHynixBench 73%, 17,777 samples467x
ASU21D4U5S8MB-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 67%, 1,024 samples214x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 50% - Average Total price: $520

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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 6 years ago.
USA-User
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7,974

Terrible (edit your comment) Add link

3 months ago.

Previous person's comment down below This drive is just... godawful. Thought my gpu was bottlenecking. Boy howdy was I wrong. Upgraded to 980 pro M.2 NVMe 1TB. I went from waiting 6.21 minutes to boot and open Chrome to 8 seconds. My comment here. This drive is trash. I can't believe so many people use this thing. just get a cheap ssd people. With DRAM. it'll be faster than this piece of junk. If i wanted to, i could type out manually a whole program faster than this drive's transfer speed... And i'm bad at coding and stuff. Just..Do not buy this piece of junk.

TUR-User
Avatar level
4,742

Excellent

25 days 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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3,867

Poor

3 years ago.

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

NLD-User
Avatar level
2,892

Poor

4 years ago.

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

ARG-User
Avatar level
2,824

Excellent

2 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

SRB-User
Avatar level
2,316

Excellent

2 months ago.

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

ISR-User
Avatar level
1,958

Excellent

14 months ago.

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

HDrivePro
Avatar level
1,391

Very good

6 years ago.

BGD-User
Avatar level
1,244

Excellent

11 months ago.

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

ProshotJake
Avatar level
28

Poor

12 months 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.

Hafi
Avatar level
12

Excellent

17 months ago.

Even after 5 years, it works like a charm.

AnjoGabrielSM
Avatar level
8

Excellent

3 years ago.

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Rasteri
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2

Good

4 years ago.

Works fine for me

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