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Pros

This drive is a catchall for me. I have it set up where it would eventually just override. If you are using a windows and linux environment you won't have any issues with the initial setup.

The toshiba s300 8tb disk comes with a 3 year warranty. It’s fast, no louder than any other hdd i have in use, and the 8tb size is going to be very useful. To use in either capacity of course you have to format it, and check your system because many h...  Read More

Good drive, and at under $30/tb. A photographers answer to having too many hard drives. It is a bit noisy when it is on and get a bit warm but that feels normal for a drive of this capacity.



Cons

Despite attempts to reduce the noise with soundproofing, the low pitch clunking noise can still be heard. It is astonishingly loud. It's not the drive it's the fan in the enclosure the drive is in.

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Quality


While the toshiba s300 8tb can support up to 64 cameras, i am barely challenging the drive with my outdoor cameras but i have b...  Read More


Nas duty isn't ideal because of the specific benefits of the n300, though it should still work.


It’s fast, no louder than any other hdd i have in use, and the 8tb size is going to be very useful.

Shipping


The shipping on this was faster then prime said and that was great.

Competitiveness


We have a 5-camera surveillance system at my business and had a 2tb drive that was filling up with footage pretty quickly, limi...  Read More


The toshiba s300 8tb disk comes with a 3 year warrantythe disk benefits from the 7200 rmp speed and the 256 mb cache.

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  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 62.5% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 127 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 29 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It was a returned or damaed item with many clusters shown as bad


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Actually just about the entire drive was show bad by old deleted files that i recovered so that i would not be blindsided by whatever the problem was


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I have seen this same problem with a few dozen drives becasue i have dealt with thousands of drives since the 80s


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    When i installed the drive the power cable clunked when attached to the drive


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    When the cable was removed the plastic holder for the wire fingers detached because it was cracked then broken


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I think the first thing you should know is that there doesnt appear to be any actual mechanical difference between the s300 and n300


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    When i put atto on the case the pulls looked like most 7200rpm drives with high areal density


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The access time seemed to be a bit worse than im accustomed to but only by an average of about 11

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