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Toshiba

DT01ACA300 3TB

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Release date: Q1 2013.

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Average Bench: 85.6% (47th of 1010)

Based on 27,204 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]

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Poor: 53%Average: 85.6% Great: 109%

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Very good average bench

The Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB averaged just 14.4% 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 1.03MB/s

Below average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB is 56%. 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 30MB/s
Avg. Sustained Write Speed 147MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 27,204 samples)
Rank 4785.6%
Min Avg Max
82.2 Read 151 193
89.2 Write 149 192
15.3 Mixed 30 48.6
89.6 SusWrite 147 191
86.2% 119 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.7 4K Read 1.03 1.2
0.9 4K Write 2.02 2.3
0.4 4K Mixed 0.6 0.8
147% 1.22 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
2.5TB free
Firmware: MX6OABB0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 185 182 183 185 182 184 MB/s
102% Outstanding
Read 174
Write 179
Mixed 22.2
SusWrite 183
100% 140 MB/s
4K Read 1.1
4K Write 2
4K Mixed 0.6
150% 1.23 MB/s
170GB free
Firmware: MX6O
SusWrite @10s intervals: 165 168 167 168 156 169 MB/s
92.3% Outstanding
Read 156
Write 152
Mixed 20.8
SusWrite 165
89% 124 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 2.3
4K Mixed 0.7
162% 1.33 MB/s
184GB free
Firmware: MX6OABB0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 149 145 147 140 139 145 MB/s
86.8% Excellent
Read 159
Write 153
Mixed 37.2
SusWrite 144
89% 123 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 2.1
4K Mixed 0.8
170% 1.3 MB/s
2TB free
Firmware: MX6OABB0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 129 153 136 157 135 153 MB/s
82.5% Excellent
Read 144
Write 140
Mixed 19.1
SusWrite 144
80% 112 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 0.6
4K Mixed 0.4
97% 0.67 MB/s
1TB free
Firmware: MX6OABB0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 93 90 91 89 91 92 MB/s
62.4% Good
Read 126
Write 126
Mixed 20.1
SusWrite 91
65% 90.8 MB/s
4K Read 1.1
4K Write 1.8
4K Mixed 0.6
146% 1.17 MB/s
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 Prices

Approx. $108 @ launch in Jan '13
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Gaming 107%
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Desktop
Desktop 93%
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Workstation
Workstation 73%
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Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) - $64

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel  $355Bench 96%, 211,346 samples3,899x
Core i5-7600KIntel  $249Bench 90%, 70,742 samples2,278x
Core i7-7700Intel  $276Bench 82%, 60,686 samples387x
GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia  $460Bench 123%, 332,411 samples1,600x
GTX 1070Nvidia  $330Bench 98%, 400,102 samples1,552x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $243Bench 71%, 371,092 samples1,490x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $85Bench 103%, 342,830 samples939x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $103Bench 110%, 237,348 samples508x
Green 240GB (2016)WDBench 55%, 6,297 samples345x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $130Bench 86%, 110,500 samples873x
DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GBUnknownBench 73%, 5,061 samples349x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL  $105Bench 71%, 30,383 samples298x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 100% - Outstanding Total price: $1,094

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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...

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Liked (edit your comment) Add link

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FRA-User
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Terrible

14 months ago.

very unstable, always form bad sectors

HDrivePro
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Very good

4 years ago.

Chris8508
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Good

2 years ago.

Noisy but fast and cheap.

malted
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Good

3 years ago.

Good performer

PurpleX
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Excellent

3 years ago.

quite, excellent seq. read/write speeds.

Seletus
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Terrible

2 years ago.

Failed in less than 6 months.

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