Seagate BarraCuda 1 TB ST1000LM048 Hard Drive Review
CrystalDiskMark
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We used CrystalDiskMark’s default configuration for our tests, which benchmarked each hard drive using a file size of 1,000 MB with five test runs.
In the sequential read test, the BarraCuda ST1000LM048 was 13% faster than the Toshiba MQ01ABD100 and 16% faster than the Samsung ST1000LM024.
In the sequential write test the BarraCuda ST1000LM048 was 12% faster than the Toshiba MQ01ABD100 and 14% faster than the Samsung ST1000LM024.
In the random read test using 512 kiB blocks, the BarraCuda ST1000LM048 was 19% faster than the Toshiba MQ01ABD100 and the Samsung ST1000LM024.
Moving on to the random write test using 512 kiB blocks, the BarraCuda ST1000LM048 was 65% faster than the Toshiba MQ01ABD100 and 105% faster than the Samsung ST1000LM024.
In the random read test using 4 kiB blocks, the BarraCuda ST1000LM048 was 6% faster than the Toshiba MQ01ABD100 and 20% faster than the Samsung ST1000LM024.
In the random write test using 4 kiB blocks, the BarraCuda ST1000LM048 was 30% faster than the Toshiba MQ01ABD100 and 86% faster than the Samsung ST1000LM024.
In the random read test using 4 kiB blocks and queue depth of 32, the BarraCuda ST1000LM048 was 30% faster than the Toshiba MQ01ABD100 and 63% faster than the Samsung ST1000LM024.
In the random write test using 4 kiB blocks and queue depth of 32, the BarraCuda ST1000LM048 was 27% faster than the Toshiba MQ01ABD100 and 75% faster than the Samsung ST1000LM024.
