Toshiba

DT01ACA300 3TB

▲ DT01ACA300 3TB
BENCHMARKS (76,229)
MKT (0.3%)
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BUY • $80

Effective Speed -5%Effective Speed -5%Average Score -35%Read -6%, Write 1%, 4K Read -23%, 4K Write -6%, Mixed -164%, 4K Mixed -45%, SusWrite -5%Peak Score -25%Read -5%, Write 1%, 4K Read -43%, 4K Write -5%, Mixed -95%, 4K Mixed -26%, SusWrite -3%Value & Sentiment -233%User Rating -10%, Market Share -962%, Price 7%, Value 32%Nice To Haves -28%Age -28%

Barracuda 7200.14 1TB

Barracuda 4TB (2016)

Black 2TB (2013)

Black 6TB (2015)

Average Bench: 84% (58^th of 1015)

Based on 76,229 user benchmarks. Models: TOSHIBA DT01ACA300, TOSHIBA DT01ACA3

The 3TB Toshiba DT01ACA300 is 3.5" desktop hard drive. Like its 2TB sibling, the DT01ACA300 sports a rotation speed of 7,200 RPM and has a relatively low peak/idle power draw of 6.4/5.2 Watts. With peak sequential read/write speeds of 197/183 MBps and peak 4k read/write speeds of 1.17/2.19 Mbps the 3TB DT01ACA300 achieves an effective speed of 143 MBps which places the DT01ACA300 amongst the top handful of 3TB drives. Pricing of the DT01ACA300 is also very aggressive which makes the DT01ACA300 a superb value proposition. Comparing the DT01ACA300 and Barracuda shows that the DT01ACA300 is marginally faster but also slightly more expensive. ^{[Nov '14 HDrivePro]}

Poor: 55%Average: 84% Great: 108%

Popular builds with this HDD

Very good average bench

The Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB averaged just 15.9% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 0.6MB/s

Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 1.04MB/s

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Below average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB is 53.5%. This is a relatively wide range which indicates that the Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 31MB/s

Avg. Sustained Write Speed 145MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 76,229 samples)

Rank 5884%

Min	Avg	Max
83.8	Read 148	191
90	Write 146	190
18.5	Mixed 31	50.5
93.3	SusWrite 145	190
84.9% 118 MB/s

Min	Avg	Max
0.7	4K Read 1.04	1.2
1.3	4K Write 2.03	2.4
0.4	4K Mixed 0.6	0.8
147% 1.22 MB/s

User Benchmarks

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Random 4k

Deep queue 4k

The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%

USA-User, 26 mins ago.

196GB free

Firmware: MX6OABB0

SusWrite @10s intervals: 159 162 144 132 150 160 MB/s

91.8% Outstanding

Write 165

Mixed 32.6

SusWrite 151

93% 129 MB/s

4K Read 1.2

4K Write 2.2

4K Mixed 0.6

157% 1.33 MB/s

AUS-User, 32 mins ago.

2.5TB free

Firmware: MX6OABB0

SusWrite @10s intervals: 144 145 145 146 147 145 MB/s

81.4% Excellent

Write 148

Mixed 23.2

SusWrite 145

82% 114 MB/s

4K Read 1

4K Write 2.3

4K Mixed 0.8

173% 1.37 MB/s

CAN-User, 1 hr ago.

2.5TB free

Firmware: MX6OABB0

SusWrite @10s intervals: 94 96 98 98 100 98 MB/s

55.3% Above average

Write 81.7

Mixed 20.6

SusWrite 97.2

53% 73.7 MB/s

4K Read 0.9

4K Write 1.8

4K Mixed 0.7

149% 1.13 MB/s

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Typical DT01ACA300 3TB Builds (Compare 22,153 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.

Gaming 58%

Gunboat

Desktop 94%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 53%

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Motherboard: MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48) - $250

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $295Bench 92%, 630,213 samples	6,577x
Core i5-8600KIntel $235Bench 92%, 224,293 samples	4,076x
Core i5-8400Intel $172Bench 84%, 274,284 samples	2,774x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $290Bench 57%, 1,283,412 samples	2,570x
GTX 1080Nvidia $540Bench 105%, 878,504 samples	1,974x
GTX 1070Nvidia $400Bench 80%, 1,236,286 samples	1,883x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 106%, 609,576 samples	1,049x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 113%, 456,834 samples	711x
A400 240GBKingston $29Bench 66%, 307,480 samples	592x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $77Bench 84%, 507,810 samples	1,345x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $74Bench 85%, 517,339 samples	571x
Aegis DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $65Bench 83%, 145,806 samples	508x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $992

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Comments

HDrivePro

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1,391

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

Added 6 years ago.

USA-User

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8,118

Good (edit your comment) Add link

8 months ago.

Noisy buy a reliable workhorse

FRA-User

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3,981

Terrible

4 years ago.

very unstable, always form bad sectors

HDrivePro

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1,391

Very good

6 years ago.

Chris8508

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8

Good

5 years ago.

Noisy but fast and cheap.

malted

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2

Good

6 years ago.

Good performer

PurpleX

level
2

Excellent

5 years ago.

quite, excellent seq. read/write speeds.

Seletus

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2

Terrible

5 years ago.

Failed in less than 6 months.

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Intel Core i5-11600K $270	Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti $400	Crucial MX500 250GB $45
Intel Core i5-11400F $260	Nvidia RTX 3070 $500	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52
Intel Core i7-11700K $380	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $240	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $183

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $40	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $74	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $77	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $649	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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DT01ACA300 3TB

Average Bench: 84% (58^th of 1015)

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Average Bench: 84% (58th of 1015)

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Average Bench: 84% (58^th of 1015)