Toshiba N300 8TB NAS 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive - CMR SATA 6 GB/s 7200 RPM 256 MB Cache - HDWG480XZSTA, Silver

NAS speciation

I've had good results from Toshiba NAS drives and have bought quite a few of them in the past.I was slightly annoyed that this has a different number of sectors to a prior purchase of an N300 6TB. The difference was small but it really complicated my RAID rebuild.

The media could not be loaded. 1 HD i is making loud noise and the other one only detects 1.8 tera instead of 8tera . Box

I ordered five of these drives to fit into a new NAS that I was building. It all went together with no trouble except that one of the five drives reported bad blocks. A few thousand of them, to be precise. I had to order a separate replacement to get the project finished but I tried to get this drive sorted while I was doing that. Tried a complete wipe using my old server but on completion the bad blocks persisted which led me to believe that the blocks in question were hard errors.I tried to return the drive in question but Amazon's return system insists that I return all five drives. I may have to fall back on the Toshiba 3 year warranty as a result.And yes, the NAS is working fine. If you want to know more about it, please see the Linus Tech Tips article on YouTube regarding the Johnsbo N1 enclosure.Additional: Tried to submit a warranty claim but the drive didn't appear in the claim form so am now trying to get a response from the warranty folk as to what the h*ll is going on. This is not going well.

Bought two. They operate OK but two of these in my NAS are surprisingly and disappointingly noisy.

Failed to mount so sent back for refund. Can’t fault the return process.