Real World Speed
Performance profile from 1,077,847 user samples
209,848 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 109% 931GB free
Worst Bench: 55% 104GB free
Poor: 55% Great: 109%
SPEED RANK: 54th / 1015
867,999 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 114% 929GB free
Worst Bench: 58% 634GB free (System drive)
Poor: 58% Great: 114%
SPEED RANK: 14th / 1015
Effective Speed
Effective HDD Speed
84.3 % 92.1 % Slightly faster effective speed.
Avg. Sequential Read Speed
155 MB/s 165 MB/s Slightly faster read speed.
Avg. Sequential Write Speed
138 MB/s 146 MB/s Slightly faster write speed.
4K Read
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed
1.23 MB/s Much faster random read.
0.81 MB/s
4K Write
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed
2.47 MB/s Much faster random write.
1.52 MB/s
Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed
88.9 MB/s Faster mixed IO speed.
76.4 MB/s
4K Mixed
Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed
1.09 MB/s Much faster random mixed IO.
0.72 MB/s
Avg. Sustained Write Speed
139 MB/s 156 MB/s Faster sustained write speed.
Peak Sequential Read Speed
205 MB/s +3% 199 MB/s
Peak Sequential Write Speed
179 MB/s 189 MB/s Slightly faster peak write speed.
4K Read
Peak 4K Random Read Speed
1.5 MB/s Much faster peak random read.
1 MB/s
4K Write
Peak 4K Random Write Speed
3 MB/s Much faster peak random write.
1.8 MB/s
Peak Sequential Mixed IO Speed
114 MB/s Much faster peak mixed IO speed.
85.8 MB/s
4K Mixed
Peak 4K Random Mixed IO Speed
1.2 MB/s Much faster peak random mixed IO.
0.9 MB/s
Peak Sequential Sustained Write 60s Average
182 MB/s 199 MB/s Slightly faster peak sustained write speed.
Market Share
Based on 39,630,680 HDDs tested.
Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days)
0.71 % 6.18 % Hugely higher market share.
Value For Money
23.1 % 41 % Much better value.
User Rating
UBM User Rating
58 % 68 % More popular.
Price (score)
$73 $45 Much cheaper.
93 Months 58 Months Much more recent.



The 1TB Seagate Barracuda 2016 (ST1000DM010) has an impressive performance profile. With Sequential read/writes averaging 173 and 159 MBps respectively, the Barracuda can make short work of even moderately large backups. The small file (4K) performance profile is less impressive but still adequate with average read/writes coming in at 0.87 and 1.53 MBps respectively. For use as OS drives, rotational disks are quickly loosing market share to SSDs which offer orders of magnitude faster 4k read/write speeds. On the other hand cheap TLC based SSDs often have slower sustained write speeds than their rotational counterparts. Reasonably good overall performance can be achieved by using a TLC SSD to host the OS and a larger rotational drive such as the Barracuda for backups and media files. Larger capacity variants of this drive offer both better performance and better value for money. [Feb '17 HDrivePro]





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