Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2013-05-07
The DT01ACA300 3TB drive from Toshiba features good performances and are in fact rebadged Hitachi HDS723030BLE640 units, a newer version compared to the drives we have tested in the past (as external enclosures). The DT01ACA300 are priced quite good and we would like to recommend them for home users which need more storage space.
The test bench was composed from the following hardware:
CPU: Intel I7 3770K @ stock
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Fatal1ty Professional
RAM: 4x8GB GeIL Leggera 2133MHz
Video: AMD Radeon HD 7970
Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11
SSD: Patriot Pyro 120GB
Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
The drive does ship unformatted:
After the drive has been formatted here we have the total free space reported by Windows:
With AIDA64 Ultimate software tool, we can extract more information regarding the internal drive:
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