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Toshiba

DT01ACA300 3TB

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Release date: Q1 2013.

Average Bench: 85.1% (49th of 1015)

Based on 84,854 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: 85.1% Great: 107%

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Very good average bench

The Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB averaged just 14.9% 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 1.05MB/s

Below average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB is 52.5%. 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 30.6MB/s
Avg. Sustained Write Speed 145MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 84,854 samples)
Rank 4985.1%
Min Avg Max
89.1 Read 151 189
74.5 Write 147 188
18.5 Mixed 30.6 50.1
86.6 SusWrite 145 190
85.6% 119 MB/s
Min Avg Max
0.7 4K Read 1.05 1.2
1.07 4K Write 2.04 2.3
0.5 4K Mixed 0.6 0.8
148% 1.23 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
3TB free
Firmware: MX6OABB0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 190 189 189 192 191 191 MB/s
106% Outstanding
Read 179
Write 184
Mixed 22.1
SusWrite 190
103% 144 MB/s
4K Read 1.1
4K Write 2
4K Mixed 0.6
150% 1.23 MB/s
590GB free
Firmware: MX6OABB0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 123 127 130 126 129 126 MB/s
93.2% Outstanding
Read 198
Write 204
Mixed 22.3
SusWrite 127
99% 138 MB/s
4K Read 1.1
4K Write 2.3
4K Mixed 0.6
155% 1.33 MB/s
2.5TB free
Firmware: MX6OABB0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 98 121 119 105 141 142 MB/s
87.3% Excellent
Read 183
Write 164
Mixed 29.9
SusWrite 121
90% 125 MB/s
4K Read 1.2
4K Write 2.1
4K Mixed 0.7
167% 1.33 MB/s
2.5TB free
Firmware: MX6OABB0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 91 108 41 114 81 85 MB/s
75.6% Very good
Read 176
Write 172
Mixed 69.8
SusWrite 86.7
92% 126 MB/s
4K Read 1.1
4K Write 2
4K Mixed 0.7
161% 1.27 MB/s
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 Prices

MSRP ≈ $108 @ launch in Jan '13
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Gaming 56%
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Desktop 92%
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Workstation
Workstation 52%
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Motherboard: MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48) - $144

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel  $300Bench 89%, 699,090 samples8,625x
Core i5-8600KIntel  $235Bench 90%, 239,862 samples5,326x
Core i5-8400Intel  $172Bench 85%, 303,512 samples3,482x
GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $290Bench 57%, 1,347,327 samples3,215x
GTX 1080Nvidia  $400Bench 106%, 1,005,992 samples2,519x
GTX 1070Nvidia  $138Bench 80%, 1,277,123 samples2,371x
SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $80Bench 106%, 751,699 samples1,328x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung  $140Bench 113%, 629,713 samples894x
A400 240GBKingston  $22Bench 68%, 443,928 samples753x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $64Bench 82%, 566,942 samples1,645x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $58Bench 86%, 616,718 samples721x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $57Bench 85%, 305,714 samples626x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 66% - Good Total price: $878

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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...

Added 7 years ago.
USA-User
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8,832

Good (edit your comment) Add link

19 months ago.

Noisy buy a reliable workhorse

FRA-User
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4,191

Terrible

4 years ago.

very unstable, always form bad sectors

HDrivePro
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1,391

Very good

7 years ago.

JaKo
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24

Average

2 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
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Good

6 years ago.

Noisy but fast and cheap.

malted
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2

Good

7 years ago.

Good performer

PurpleX
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Excellent

6 years ago.

quite, excellent seq. read/write speeds.

Seletus
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Terrible

6 years ago.

Failed in less than 6 months.

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