What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
Toshiba toshiba n300 is a good value for the money. It sits alongside several seagate ironwolf's and honestly, the quality of the drive is just as good. The only drawback is the ironwolfs have seagate's health management suite on my nas whereas this t... Read More
Sitting in the same room as them while they are running an intensive operation is frankly unbearable. The noise can be accepted after fixing with sponge pad.
This product comes with a 3 year warranty. Purchased at £208. See pic. Five pounds more than the 6tb version!
Cons
These drives emit an irritating deep clicking noise on head movement. I believe that these drives either have bugs in their write cache algorithms or a cmr drives and not smr. Pay the extra and buy seagate or wd red disks instead.
Highlights
Quality
I have two toshibas in my pc's, oldest is 3 going on 4 years, no issues at all, so i figured i'd try them in the nas too & agai... Read More
The product is high quality as respected.
As amazon does, the product listing mixes a new generation and nas model.
Good value for money, and worth it for the 3year warranty.
Price
Definitely louder than the pair of 4td wd reds they replaced, but the price was good, and they work great in the mycloudmirror (gen 2)
Ticks all the right boxes and the price was decent too (pre chia mining at least).
Packaging/appearance
Packaging was in the middle of two foam inserts, but could be improved.
As per other reviews, packaging not sufficient to rule out postal damage.
Competitiveness
I've a couple of smaller n300 drives which i've used for a while and i would be happy to buy more.
This is a nas oriented 7200rpm hdd, easy to install and operate.
- good sustained speeds (a 20gb dummy file from an nvme drive had sustained speeds of 260mb/s to each drive, according to terac... Read More
The synology software warns me that it may not be compatible when i install it.
Overview
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- This product had a total of 1,991 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 26 2022.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In practice thus far they seem to work after the initial complaint by the nas
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
One star docked for that compatability warning and amazon pretending they are the same item
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
What is important is that these are not smr drives so speed is not compromised unlike some of the newer offerings from other manufacturers and in my opinion its not right that many manufacturers are not stating this fact when advertising their latest and greatest
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Have bought a number of these drives and never had any problems until recently when one started showing signs of immanent death with reallocated sectors and very poor performance after about 15 months of 247 operation
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As per other reviews packaging not sufficient to rule out postal damage
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Bought two separately one dead on arrival
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Two pieces of foam top and bottom but nothing stopping the drive from sliding around and bashing against the sides of the box
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