Toshiba MQ01ABD100 2.5'' 1TB Hard Disk Drive Review

Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2013-10-29

The cost-efficient MQ01ABDXXX series from Toshiba comes with capacities between 250GB and 1TB, with one or two platters and were designed for low power consumption, operating temperatures and silent operation. These are ideal for upgrading the storage in our PS3, usage for saving backups and other applications which do not need stellar read/write speeds.

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Test Setup and Test Results

Test Bench:

CPU : Intel I5 3750K Retail @ 4.7GHz

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14

Motherboard : ASRock Z77 Extreme6

RAM :GeIL PC3-17000 2133MHz 8GB EVO Leggera

Video : Sparkle X560 Calibre

Power Supply : Cooler Master 850W

HDD : Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200.10

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

 

The drive is shipped unformatted:

 

 

Here is a snapshot of the total reported free space by Windows 7:

 

 

 

With the help of AIDA64, we can extract more information regarding the drive:

 

 

 

The Tests

 

AIDA64 Disk Benchmark

 

 

CrystalMark

 

 

 

HDTach

 

 

 

 

HDTune

 

 

 

 

PCMark05 HDD Test Suite

 

 

 

PCMark Vantage HDD Test Suite

 

 

 

 

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Comment from jmke @ 2013/10/29
€58 for 1TB is far from a bad deal!

 

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