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Pros

Great harddrive. Works well with no disconnects. Slight background noise occasionally, but not distracting at all.



Cons

No mention of remanufacturing in the description. Returned for refund and purchased 2 seagate drives instead. Lookup toshiba warranty/rma uk.

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Quality


The product is high quality as respected.


Fantastic drive i have them in a mirrored pair and have had no issues i would recommend these drives.


T error and went faulty and when replacing another, that one made a grinding noise and wasn’t recognised.


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

Price


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


Great spec hdd at this price point.


These are excellent value but you sure do hear them more when major read writes are underway.


They tend to cost more, but the value is there through longevity.

Packaging/appearance


2nd time order all good packaging and delivery and worked fine


Short version: nicely packaged, good quality, very decent price, thoroughly recommended.


Packaging (both drives individually packed):- each drive is sealed in an anti-static bag (see photo) with the manufacturing dat...  Read More


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

Competitiveness


The drive performance is very fast, around 250mb/s (a lot better than wd red plus models).


This is the same policy as wd and seagate.


One of the drives showed a lot more hours than the other threeas they are stock returns and a lower cost i accepted the extra hours.


Good alternative to the traditional providers of nas drives.

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    good, two, ordered, same and new.
  • 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 3714.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 1,657 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 26 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Its quiet and sits in my tower server in my living room next to my tv i dont really notice it much


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Bought this as a replacement for the wd red 6tb in my synology nas ds114 as the drive was failing


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    One thing though drive seems loud in operation


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Doesnt bother me as i rate speed more


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    A bit noisy but hey these arent ssds


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This was an order for 2 8tb equivalents intended for installation into a nas as a zfs mirrored pair


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Its only been two days but their s


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    However the price for these was too good to miss so amazon it was and fingers crossed for the packaging

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