--- product_id: 1214745 title: "3.5-Inch 3TB 7200 RPM SATA3/SATA 6.0 GB/s 64MB Hard Drive DT01ACA300" brand: "toshiba" price: "€ 298.09" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/1214745-3-5-inch-3tb-7200-rpm-sata3-sata-6-0 store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # 7200 RPM speed 3TB massive storage SATA 6.0 Gb/s interface 3.5-Inch 3TB 7200 RPM SATA3/SATA 6.0 GB/s 64MB Hard Drive DT01ACA300 **Brand:** toshiba **Price:** € 298.09 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 💾 Power up your desktop with speed and space that keeps you ahead of the curve! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** 3.5-Inch 3TB 7200 RPM SATA3/SATA 6.0 GB/s 64MB Hard Drive DT01ACA300 by toshiba - **How much does it cost?** € 298.09 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/1214745-3-5-inch-3tb-7200-rpm-sata3-sata-6-0) ## Best For - toshiba enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted toshiba brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Silent Yet Durable:** Advanced servo tech and Ramp Load protection keep noise low and your drive safe during transport. - • **Massive 3TB Capacity:** Store your entire digital life—games, media, and work files—without compromise or constant cleanup. - • **Blazing Fast 7200 RPM:** Experience lightning-quick data access and seamless multitasking for your demanding desktop or gaming rig. - • **Next-Gen SATA 6.0 Gb/s:** Ultra-responsive transfer speeds ensure your system runs smoothly with cutting-edge connectivity. - • **Power-Smart Efficiency:** Optimized power management slashes energy use, perfect for eco-conscious professionals and home servers. ## Overview The Toshiba DT01ACA300 is a 3.5-inch 3TB mechanical hard drive featuring a 7200 RPM spindle speed and SATA 6.0 Gb/s interface. Designed for desktop PCs, gaming systems, and home servers, it combines high capacity with fast data transfer and low power consumption. Its Ramp Load technology protects the drive head, while advanced servo design minimizes noise, making it a reliable and efficient storage solution. ## Description TOSHIBA3.5-Inch 3TB 7200 RPM SATA3/SATA 6.0 GB/s 64MB Hard Drive DT01ACA300 ## Features - The SATA interface 7,200 RPM desktop series drives are targeted at desktop all-in-one and gaming PCs, home servers, external HDDs, and consumer electronics products such as set-top boxes and digital video recorders. - Serial ATA (SATA) is a serial interface that can operate at speeds up to 6Gb/s. SATA is scalable and enables easy integration, high performance, and efficient system designs. SATA is the evolutionary replacement for the Parallel ATA (PATA) storage interface. - Ramp Load technology restricts the drive’s recording head from touching the disk media, resulting in improved protection of the drive while being transported and less wear to the recording head. - Optimized for use in power-friendly consumer and commercial desktop computing systems, the drive’s power management technology provides significant power consumption savings at 5.2 watts (or less) active idle, and 1.0 watt standby and sleep power requirements. - Toshiba’s advanced servo techniques and mechanical design minimizes drive acoustics, making them as silent as possible during operation. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Hard Drive | 3 TB Mechanical Hard Disk | | Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 1 | | Brand | TOSHIBA | | Series | FBA_DT01ACA300 / HDKPC08 | | Item model number | DT01ACA300 / HDKPC08 | | Hardware Platform | PC | | Item Weight | 1.5 pounds | | Product Dimensions | 4 x 1.02 x 5.8 inches | | Item Dimensions LxWxH | 4 x 1.02 x 5.8 inches | | Color | Black | | Flash Memory Size | 3 | | Hard Drive Interface | Serial ATA-600 | | Hard Drive Rotational Speed | 7200 RPM | | Manufacturer | Toshiba | | ASIN | B00B229W04 | | Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No | | Date First Available | October 21, 2017 | ## Product Details - **Digital Storage Capacity:** 3 TB - **Hard Disk Interface:** Serial ATA-600 - **Connectivity Technology:** SATA - **Brand:** TOSHIBA - **Special Feature:** Portable - **Hard Disk Form Factor:** 3.5 Inches - **Hard Disk Description:** Mechanical Hard Disk - **Compatible Devices:** Laptop, Desktop - **Installation Type:** Internal Hard Drive - **Color:** Black ## Images ![3.5-Inch 3TB 7200 RPM SATA3/SATA 6.0 GB/s 64MB Hard Drive DT01ACA300 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61LOAYK4J8L.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Size** options. ## Questions & Answers **Q: does this hard drive last a long time? trying to find a good reliable one for a low price** A: Generally, Toshiba HDD's tend to last longer than most other brands but from time to time some bad drives get out there. You would be hard pressed to find a more reliable brand out there, overall. I have a Toshiba 350 GB HDD (circa 2007) that I just recently relegated to a older secondary PC that saw everyday use for almost 10 years and it is still going strong. **Q: Someone can to tell me what to do? after installation it not works and it was one month after bought. I tried to talk with Toshiba.com, too bad!** A: I was shocked to just discover this drive is not listed on the Toshiba US website. I own three of the drives and one from 2014 just failed. When I went to investigate the warranty terms by putting in the model number in the support website (http://support.toshiba.com/support/modelHome?freeText=DT01ACA300), the pop-up error message was this product is unknown in the Americas, New Zealand, and Australia. I will post a review with a screen print of the message. **Q: Does this drive come w/any cables ?** A: Bare drive is just that ... BARE.You need a place to put it and that is where cable connections come into play.I use an external case/power supply and all cables came with it. (NexStar CX)Internal use might require purchase of a cable. I must use external since mycomputer is a laptop. ONE eSATA connection gives me a classic two drive system. The Toshiba is a third drive. Both are in external cases. **Q: Will this work on Ps4?** A: In a stock PS4? No. The PS4 can only hold a 2.5" hard drive internally. But, if you purchased the Nyko Data Bank for your PS4, you could essentially use any 3.5" hard drive that you wanted.Update: I just installed this hard drive in my PS4 (with an external set-up), and it functions FLAWLESSLY. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Working well at 6 months. *by M***2 on December 5, 2014* [Updated 5/28/2015]This review is for the 3TB model, DT01ACA300. This is a bare drive with only whatever packaging is used by the seller. You can also buy it in a box with foam padding under the model name "PH3300U". I can't comment on Amazon's packing, because I bought it from a different site.Because drives and firmware sometimes change, I should specify mine. I don't see a clearly labeled firmware version on the label of my drive, but it does say "DRIVE REV AAA AA00 / BB0". It also is marked with the number HDKPC08A0A01. This unit was made in Aug-2014. On a scale, it weighed 1.473lbs.Real capacity is 2.729TB when measured in proper base-2 units.This is a 7200rpm drive. It uses 1TB platters.Performance and Noise=================After 6 months of use, I recently tested this drive's performance under Linux Mint 17.1 using the "gnome-disks" utility. Screenshot is attached. Please note that the linear transfer rate values in that graph are base-10 measurements, not base-2. They would be a bit less when expressed in base 2.This drive has moderate access times for a 7200rpm drive, but it is quiet. This is a popular formula - faster drives are louder, and people tend to complain about that nowadays. The access time measured was 15.18msec average with a test of 5000 random seeks. This test covered the full 3TB capacity, not short stroked. I could not hear any seek noise during this test unless I put my ear next to the drive, and then it was just faintly audible. However, I do not have a quiet PC. People who build quiet PCs might hear seek noises more easily than I do. To me, I couldn't even hear the test running until I got my ear next to the drive. I also tested a 4TB Toshiba MD04ACA400, and observed that they are complete opposites in respect to seek noise vs speed. This 3TB DT01ACA300 is the slower but much quieter drive - it's inline with most modern consumer 7200rpm drives.Reliability=======I've had this drive in operation for 6 months. It was initially subjected to a burn-in period using the linux utility 'badblocks'. That took 48 hours of continuous stress to complete, which it did with no errors. It then completed the SMART extended self-test, again with no errors. The intention was to weed out any infant mortality before putting real data on the drive.Since that time, up until a few days ago, it has been used as the parity drive for a SnapRAID array. In that role, the drive spent most of it's time spun down. When it was accessed, it would see continuous stress for a few hours at a time.Recently I've moved it to file storage, and another drive has replaced it for parity. This drive is still working fine, it does not have any faults logged in SMART.During the initial burn-in period, the highest temperature recorded in the SMART data was 38C, probably about 10C above ambient. That was during the very long 'badblocks' test with a fan blowing through the drive cage. I don't know how much warmer it would get without the fan, but every case will be different. Opinions vary but I'd say anything up to 45C is nothing to worry about.No "Intellipark"============I do not believe this drive has any auto head parking behavior. I'm glad for this, because I believe head parking should be left under control of the operating system, not arbitrarily forced by a drive's firmware.I used the linux "watch" command to watch the "load/unload" counter in the drive's SMART data with a timer of 5 minutes. The drive was otherwise unmounted and not being accessed. This means the only access to the drive was on those 5 minute intervals. Therefore, if the drive were auto-parking itself, I should have seen the "load/unload" counter increase at every 5 minute update. I did not - the "load/unload" counter stayed constant, and was at a very low number. That is why I'm convinced it does not auto-park.It should still respond to head parking commands from the OS, as any hard drive has been capable of doing since the days of MS-DOS. It most definitely responds to spin-down commands, I've had the OS configured to spin it down after 30 minutes of inactivity and this has worked fine.Partitioning comments---------------------The tool I used for partioning this drive was 'gdisk'. This is a linux utility which is very similar to the familiar 'fdisk', except it is designed to work with GPT partitioning instead of traditional MBR. In a GUI environment, 'gparted' is another way to partition the drive. At the command line, the console equivalent is 'parted', but I used 'gdisk' instead because it was easier to understand.Although technically there may be some workarounds, GPT partitioning is essentially required if you want to partition drives larger than 2TB. If you are only seeing something like 700GB of space on this drive, it is because you are using an outdated MBR partitioning tool which will not work properly with drives of this size.Under Windows, note that 3TB drives (anything > 2TB) cannot be properly used with 32-bit Windows XP or older versions. This is because they don't support GPT partitions. Limited support for GPT was added for 64-bit WinXP, but not for a system drive, only for a data disk. GPT support is better in later Windows versions.In an experiment on my system, I found that >2TB drives don't even appear in the WinXP-32 Disk Management screen. It only became visible if I used HDAT2 to reduce the drive's reported size to 2TB.>2TB drives might work with patched versions of Vista, but I don't know. I expect at least Windows 7 should support them. Please research this before buying.This would not be a problem for using the drive over a network. It's only an issue for mounting it directly on the system.If you're using WinXP-32, then stick to the 2TB model or below. Those sizes will work fine. However, the remaining point to be aware of is that these drives (even the smaller sized models) have 4KB sectors with 512 byte emulation. This is something older Windows versions don't understand. The partitions need to be aligned with these 4KB sectors for the drive to perform it's best. This won't keep it from working but it's a performance issue.Don't use the partitioning that is built-in with WinXP, or the alignment will not be correct and performance will suffer. Instead, I suggest downloading 'gparted' and running that tool from a bootable CD or flash drive. This tool has an option to align your partitions on a 1MB boundary. Use that option while creating the partitions, and you'll be good. Then reboot back to Windows and let it format the partition(s) that you already created. Formatting under XP is fine, you just don't want to let it create the partitions. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awesome Hard Drive *by J***S on June 18, 2025* This Hard drive came packed in a cardboard box inside a paper bag and also in a plastic bag. The New hard drive booted up quickly and is very fast and a quiet. So thank you. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good performer and works in some RAID configurations - plus price is great! *by J***E on August 25, 2013* I bought these to work in a Sans Digital ToweRAID unit. They are not RAID or enterprise class drives, but I noticed that QNAP is supporting them in their NAS units. So I decided to give them a try. It took a lot of effort and troubleshooting but I was able to get them to work in my RAID 5 configuration. Performance is excellent and I would recommend these drives for my desktop applications and select RAID configurations.I am seeing spikes of 195MB/sec transfer speeds to these drives over eSATA III. Make sure you are using a connection method that supports SATA III drives, otherwise your speeds will be slower. These drives are quiet, well priced, tons of space and I'm hoping they will last me a good while. Overall they are a great deal and at this price of just over $100 they are perfect for most desktop storage needs. ## Frequently Bought Together - Toshiba 3.5-Inch 3TB 7200 RPM SATA3/SATA 6.0 GB/s 64MB Hard Drive DT01ACA300 - BENFEI SATA Cable III, 3 Pack SATA Cable III 6Gbps Straight HDD SDD Data Cable with Locking Latch 18 Inch Compatible for SATA HDD, SSD, CD Driver, CD Writer - Black - StarTech.com LP4 to 2X LP4 Power Y Splitter Cable M/F - LP4 Splitter - Molex Y Splitter - Molex Splitter (PYO2L) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.hr/products/1214745-3-5-inch-3tb-7200-rpm-sata3-sata-6-0](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/1214745-3-5-inch-3tb-7200-rpm-sata3-sata-6-0) --- *Product available on Desertcart Croatia* *Store origin: HR* *Last updated: 2026-08-01*