Toshiba

DT01ACA300 3TB

▲ DT01ACA300 3TB
BENCHMARKS (85,620)
MKT (0.2%)
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Effective Speed -4%Effective Speed -4%Average Score -37%Read -4%, Write 3%, 4K Read -26%, 4K Write -6%, Mixed -172%, 4K Mixed -47%, SusWrite -4%Peak Score -28%Read -5%, Write 1%, 4K Read -43%, 4K Write -9%, Mixed -105%, 4K Mixed -28%, SusWrite -4%Value & Sentiment -274%User Rating -10%, Market Share -1,130%, Price 12%, Value 31%Nice To Haves -21%Age -21%

Barracuda 7200.14 1TB

Barracuda 4TB (2016)

Black 2TB (2013)

Black 6TB (2015)

Average Bench: 84.7% (49^th of 1015)

Based on 85,620 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: 51%Average: 84.7% Great: 107%

Popular builds with this HDD

Very good average bench

The Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB averaged just 15.3% 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 0.59MB/s

Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 1.03MB/s

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Below average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB is 55.9%. 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 30.3MB/s

Avg. Sustained Write Speed 146MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 85,620 samples)

Rank 4984.7%

Min	Avg	Max
82.8	Read 149	190
78.5	Write 148	190
18.8	Mixed 30.3	47.9
84.7	SusWrite 146	189
85.4% 118 MB/s

Min	Avg	Max
0.6	4K Read 1.03	1.2
0.88	4K Write 2.02	2.3
0.4	4K Mixed 0.59	0.8
146% 1.21 MB/s

User Benchmarks

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

AUS-User, 45 mins ago.

3TB free

Firmware: MX6OABB0

SusWrite @10s intervals: 133 169 180 178 184 181 MB/s

99.9% Outstanding

Write 172

Mixed 21.1

SusWrite 171

97% 135 MB/s

4K Read 1.1

4K Write 2.2

4K Mixed 0.6

153% 1.3 MB/s

USA-User, 9 mins ago.

1.5TB free

Firmware: MX6OABB0

SusWrite @10s intervals: 152 149 153 146 151 152 MB/s

89.4% Excellent

Write 168

Mixed 44.2

SusWrite 151

95% 131 MB/s

4K Read 1.1

4K Write 2.1

4K Mixed 0.6

151% 1.27 MB/s

CYP-User, 2 hrs ago.

1TB free

Firmware: MX6OABB0

SusWrite @10s intervals: 110 108 110 109 109 110 MB/s

82.2% Excellent

Write 180

Mixed 29

SusWrite 109

89% 124 MB/s

4K Read 1.1

4K Write 2.3

4K Mixed 0.6

155% 1.33 MB/s

ESP-User, 2 hrs ago.

789GB free

Firmware: MX6OABB0

SusWrite @10s intervals: 151 153 152 151 155 153 MB/s

72.2% Very good

Write 99

Mixed 21.2

SusWrite 152

67% 92.9 MB/s

4K Read 0.9

4K Write 2.1

4K Mixed 0.8

165% 1.27 MB/s

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Typical DT01ACA300 3TB Builds (Compare 14,091 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.

Gaming 55%

Yacht

Desktop 91%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 50%

Yacht

Motherboard: MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48) - $143

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $243Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	4,495x
Core i5-8600KIntel $213Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	2,587x
Core i7-8700Intel $296Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	1,538x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $140Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,305x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,186x
GTX 1070Nvidia $119Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,024x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $50Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	591x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	413x
A400 240GBKingston $22Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	297x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	649x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	347x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	283x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $619

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Comments

HDrivePro

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1,391

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

Added 8 years ago.

USA-User

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9,514

Good (edit your comment) Add link

2 years ago.

Noisy buy a reliable workhorse

FRA-User

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4,463

Terrible

6 years ago.

very unstable, always form bad sectors

HDrivePro

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1,391

Very good

8 years ago.

JaKo

level
24

Average

16 months ago.

One of these (fortunately in RAID 0) failed catastrophically after 5y in service, would I trust the remaining one with any critical data? Just to compare -- I have two WD Black 1TB HDD's and a couple of smaller Seagate Barracudas spinning for 10y+ w/o a complaint! So, the verdict is: a mixed bag, at best...

Chris8508

level
8

Good

7 years ago.

Noisy but fast and cheap.

malted

level
2

Good

8 years ago.

Good performer

PurpleX

level
2

Excellent

7 years ago.

quite, excellent seq. read/write speeds.

Seletus

level
2

Terrible

7 years ago.

Failed in less than 6 months.

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Intel Core i5-13600K $316	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $30
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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $40	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $54	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $381	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

Toshiba

DT01ACA300 3TB

Average Bench: 84.7% (49^th of 1015)

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DT01ACA300 3TB

Average Bench: 84.7% (49th of 1015)

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