Toshiba

DT01ACA300 3TB

▲ DT01ACA300 3TB
BENCHMARKS (35,497)
MKT (0.4%)
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Release date: Q1 2013.

500GB 1TB 2TB 3TB

Effective Speed -6%Effective Speed -6%Average User Bench -36%Read -5%, Write 2%, 4K Read -25%, 4K Write -6%, Mixed -164%, 4K Mixed -50%, SusWrite -6%Peak Lab Bench -26%Read -5%, Write 0%, 4K Read -44%, 4K Write -6%, Mixed -99%, 4K Mixed -28%, SusWrite -3%Value & Sentiment -180%User Rating -26%, Market Share -677%, Price -16%, Value 1%Nice To Haves -44%Age -44%

Market Leaders

Barracuda 7200.14 1TB

Average Bench: 85.9% (47^th of 1010)

Based on 35,497 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: 53%Average: 85.9% Great: 108%

Popular builds with this HDD

Very good average bench

The Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB averaged just 14.1% 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 55.7%. 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 30.8MB/s

Avg. Sustained Write Speed 146MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 35,497 samples)

Rank 4785.9%

Min	Avg	Max
90	Read 153	192
89.9	Write 150	191
17.9	Mixed 30.8	49.3
72.5	SusWrite 146	191
86.7% 120 MB/s

Min	Avg	Max
0.6	4K Read 1.03	1.2
0.8	4K Write 2.02	2.4
0.32	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%

USA-User, 1 hr ago.

2.5TB free

Firmware: MX6OABB0

SusWrite @10s intervals: 180 171 190 193 187 193 MB/s

109% Outstanding

Write 186

Mixed 42.5

SusWrite 186

110% 153 MB/s

4K Read 1.1

4K Write 2.2

4K Mixed 0.6

153% 1.3 MB/s

USA-User, 12 mins ago.

2.5TB free

Firmware: MX6OABB0

SusWrite @10s intervals: 177 188 191 191 190 189 MB/s

107% Outstanding

Write 177

Mixed 21.7

SusWrite 188

102% 143 MB/s

4K Read 1.2

4K Write 2.2

4K Mixed 0.6

157% 1.33 MB/s

DEU-User, 1 hr ago.

2.5TB free

Firmware: ABB0

SusWrite @10s intervals: 186 186 180 185 185 182 MB/s

99.9% Outstanding

Write 166

Mixed 43.7

SusWrite 184

101% 140 MB/s

4K Read 1.1

4K Write 2.3

4K Mixed 0.5

144% 1.3 MB/s

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Typical DT01ACA300 3TB Builds (Compare 10,328 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.

Gaming 107%

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Desktop 94%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) - $114

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $349Bench 96%, 259,121 samples	4,900x
Core i5-7600KIntel $243Bench 91%, 90,827 samples	2,823x
Core i7-7700Intel $323Bench 84%, 83,240 samples	526x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $528Bench 123%, 459,370 samples	2,016x
GTX 1070Nvidia $364Bench 98%, 535,855 samples	1,941x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $230Bench 71%, 516,221 samples	1,869x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $65Bench 105%, 411,158 samples	1,067x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $105Bench 112%, 348,851 samples	609x
Green 240GB (2016)WDBench 53%, 7,978 samples	422x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $105Bench 87%, 168,565 samples	1,083x
DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GBUnknownBench 74%, 7,380 samples	427x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $88Bench 74%, 37,600 samples	373x

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Value: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $1,161

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Comments

HDrivePro

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

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USA-User

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FRA-User

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Terrible

18 months ago.

very unstable, always form bad sectors

HDrivePro

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Very good

4 years ago.

Chris8508

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8

Good

2 years ago.

Noisy but fast and cheap.

malted

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Good

4 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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Speed Comparisons

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $365	Nvidia GTX 1070 $364	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $65
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $120	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $230	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $105
Intel Core i5-8600K $260	Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti $808	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $97

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $43	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $105	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $43
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $761	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $48
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $45	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $110	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12

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DT01ACA300 3TB

Average Bench: 85.9% (47^th of 1010)

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Average Bench: 85.9% (47th of 1010)

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