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Price and performance details for the SEAGATE Barracuda 500GB Drive can be found below. This is made using thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily.
Description: ST3500630NS
Drive Size: 465.8 GB
Other names: ST3500630NS
Drive First Benchmarked: 2012-11-13
Drive Rating/$Price: 88.17
Overall Rank: 9919
Last Price Change: $39 USD (2026-01-31)
| Sequential Read | 418 MBytes/Sec |
|---|---|
| Sequential Write | 409 MBytes/Sec |
| Random Seek Read Write (IOPS 32KQD20) | 200 MBytes/Sec |
| IOPS 4KQD1 | 11 MBytes/Sec |
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| Drive | Average Disk Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| SEAGATE Barracuda 500GB Drive | 3,438 | |
| Seagate ST2000DM008 | 2,311 | |
| Seagate ST1000DM010 | 1,377 | |
| Seagate Barracuda 2TB Hard Drive | 1,317 | |
| TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 | 1,254 | |
| WDC WD10EZEX | 1,216 | |
| Seagate ST1000DM003 | 1,176 | |
| TOSHIBA DT01ACA050 | 1,143 | |
| TOSHIBA MQ04ABF100 | 1,060 | |
| WDC WD10SPZX | 901 | |
| PassMark Software © 2008-2026 |
| Baseline | Disk Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| BL3279769 - Feb 11 2026 | 312 | |
| BL2855836 - Aug 23 2025 | 470 | |
| BL2689505 - Jun 11 2025 | 471 | |
| BL1958002 - Nov 29 2023 | 551 | |
| BL1930237 - Oct 23 2023 | 23393 | |
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