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DT01ACA300 3TB

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Release date: Q1 2013.

Average Bench: 84.7% (49th 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%

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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

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
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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 BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
The fastest HDD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
2.5TB free
Firmware: MX6OABS0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 185 183 185 186 187 185 MB/s
104% Outstanding
Read 178
Write 176
Mixed 30
SusWrite 185
102% 142 MB/s
4K Read 1.1
4K Write 2.1
4K Mixed 0.5
140% 1.23 MB/s
2.5TB free
Firmware: MX6OABB0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 174 178 176 179 178 180 MB/s
103% Outstanding
Read 181
Write 186
Mixed 22.1
SusWrite 178
102% 142 MB/s
4K Read 1.1
4K Write 2.3
4K Mixed 0.5
144% 1.3 MB/s
2TB free
Firmware: MX6OABB0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 167 168 169 167 168 167 MB/s
95.8% Outstanding
Read 166
Write 165
Mixed 20.2
SusWrite 168
93% 130 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 2.4
4K Mixed 0.6
153% 1.33 MB/s
266GB free
Firmware: MX6OABB0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 114 116 116 117 114 116 MB/s
78% Very good
Read 156
Write 173
Mixed 45.7
SusWrite 115
89% 123 MB/s
4K Read 1.2
4K Write 2.1
4K Mixed 0.5
144% 1.27 MB/s
484GB free
Firmware: MX6OABS0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 107 110 110 110 109 109 MB/s
65.1% Good
Read 118
Write 105
Mixed 15.2
SusWrite 109
62% 86.7 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 2.1
4K Mixed 0.8
170% 1.3 MB/s
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MSRP ≈ $108 @ launch in Jan '13
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Gaming 55%
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Desktop 91%
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Workstation
Workstation 50%
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Motherboard: MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48) - $249

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel  $193Bench 88%, 746,287 samples5,271x
Core i5-8600KIntel  $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples3,014x
Core i7-8700Intel  $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples1,828x
GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples1,541x
GTX 1080Nvidia  $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples1,371x
GTX 1070-TiNvidia  $299Bench 94%, 412,133 samples1,209x
SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung  $75Bench 105%, 762,998 samples692x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung  $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples481x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples355x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples757x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples391x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL  $34Bench 84%, 287,720 samples321x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 95% - Outstanding Total price: $682

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 Comments

HDrivePro
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1,391

Official site storage.toshiba.eu/...

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

Added 9 years ago.
USA-User
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Terrible (edit your comment) Add link

3 months ago.

FRA-User
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4,575

Terrible

6 years ago.

very unstable, always form bad sectors

HDrivePro
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1,391

Very good

9 years ago.

JaKo
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24

Average

23 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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8

Good

7 years ago.

Noisy but fast and cheap.

malted
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2

Good

9 years ago.

Good performer

PurpleX
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2

Excellent

8 years ago.

quite, excellent seq. read/write speeds.

Seletus
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Terrible

7 years ago.

Failed in less than 6 months.

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