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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Am now looking for a 3rd to be utilised in full shr mode. Good value for money, and worth it for the 3year warranty. Smart test shows no error.

The n300 is bigger and louder than some of its alternatives, but it will outlive them. They seem to spin quietly enough - no noticeable rumble or hum. Sitting in the same room as them while they are running an intensive operation is frankly unbearable... Read More

Cons

The hard drive itself is likely to be good, once i find a supplier that actually knows how to package these things properly, but amazon isn't that supplier. I believe that these drives either have bugs in their write cache algorithms or a cmr drives a... Read More

A replacement was sent. Returned and refunded.

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Highlights

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Quality

Good value for money, and worth it for the 3year warranty.

My experience with toshiba drives over the last 10ish years has been fantastic this is the first one i have had any problems wi... Read More

Toshiba seemed to have a serious quality control issue or there was a bad batch in circulation.

As amazon does, the product listing mixes a new generation and nas model.

Packaging/appearance

After reading the reviews quite a few said that amazon's packaging was awful, to be honest mine arrived in a box cushioned in f... Read More

Biggest issues of getting har drives from amazon there is no care in delivery or packaging.

As per other reviews, packaging not sufficient to rule out postal damage.

The packaging of the hard disk itself is very simple and crude , in a ziploc bag between two sponges.

Competitiveness

All 5 disks were added to a raid5 configuration and connected to my nas.

I am using 2 of these 12tb in a synology nas as a mirrored raid.

My 4 bay synology nas drive started beeping and sending me warning messages saying one of my hard drives was unhealthy (i figur... Read More

I returned the faulty drive to amazon and wanted to get a replacement, so i looked for the same model as the ones already in th... Read More

Overview

How are reviewers describing this item?
good, first, two, quiet and far.

Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.

Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 2510.

Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 75.9% of the reviews are reliable.

This product had a total of 2,443 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 5 2023.