N300 6TB NAS 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive - CMR SATA 6 GB/s 7200 RPM 128 MB Cache - HDWN160XZSTA

I have recently decided to invest in a NAS device for my Plex Server and decided on the Asustor 4 bay NAS. I was trying not to brake the bank since I needed 4 hard drives to fill the NAS so I did a lot of comparing between Western Digital and Seagate who tend to be the most popular. For around the same price as the WD Red Plus, which has 5400 rpm you can get this hard drive with 7200 RPM with the same amount of storage. It is hard to review a hard drive since all it does is hold data, but for the price, Toshiba was the obvious choice. This drive is a little bit noisy, but that is to be expected on the 7200 RPM drives vs the slower 5400 RPM drives. It also could have to do with the particular NAS I purchased since it has a metal enclosure instead of a plastic which would dull the noise a little. Setup was a breeze, all of my drives are up and functional. I decided to buy 3 6TB drives and add a 4th later when storage is necessary. Of course every hard drive has the possibility of failure so that cannot really be a good gauge unless of course your drives is dead out of the box in which case its probably a defective unit. I am very happy with this purchase and will use Toshiba drives in the future as they provide better value for the money and equal performance.

TL:DR for the people in hurry, Buy it. A certain portion of drives from any manufacturer will fail. It's lottery that nobody wants to win. Toshiba drives have the lowest failure rate in the year of use of all drive manufactures. If you have used electronics for long you know that if something is going to fail it will most likely be in the first year. For those not in a hurry: I have 4 of these installed in my home server. The OS is Ubuntu 18.04 and the drives are formatted in a btrfs RAID10. How long have owned them? It's been 10moths since I bought them.. How noisy is it? For me, not very noisy at all. I have a good case, a great PSU, a good motherboard, and I am using Linux. A good case means that it has solid HDD mounts that will not rattle as the drive vibrates because it is spinning. It also means that the drives are mounted close to a fan to keep them cool. A great PSU means that the drives always get the a steady and reliable amount of power so they spin at the same speed 24/7. A good motherboard means that SATA controller has a great driver which is what controls the drives as they spin. Linux means that most HDD's are going to make more noise than on Windows because Linux will cache disk writes in RAM for several seconds to several minutes and then do all the writes at once. How many non-recoverable bad sectors did These drives have out of the box? Two. On four drives, two non-recoverable bad sectors out of the box. How many non-recoverable bad sectors these drives have after 10 months of being powered on 24/7? Two. That's my review.

performs way above expectations 4g model it wont let me post a pic for some reason. here are benchmarks out of box ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CrystalDiskMark 7.0.0 x64 (C) 2007-2019 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s] * KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes [Read] Sequential 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 208.051 MB/s [ 198.4 IOPS] < 40141.93 us> Sequential 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 207.840 MB/s [ 198.2 IOPS] < 5041.21 us> Random 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 1.742 MB/s [ 425.3 IOPS] <465692.96 us> Random 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 0.854 MB/s [ 208.5 IOPS] < 4792.64 us> [Write] Sequential 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 208.251 MB/s [ 198.6 IOPS] < 40006.50 us> Sequential 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 206.980 MB/s [ 197.4 IOPS] < 5051.32 us> Random 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 1.780 MB/s [ 434.6 IOPS] <970552.76 us> Random 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 1.713 MB/s [ 418.2 IOPS] < 2347.51 us> Profile: Default Test: 512 MiB (x5) [Interval: 5 sec] <DefaultAffinity=DISABLED> Date: 2020/04/29 19:18:09 OS: Windows 10 [10.0 Build 18363] (x64)

The P/N of this 6TB N300 NAS drive with 128 MB cache is HDWE160XZSTA. The 256 MB version's P/N is HDWG160XZSTA. This is also a short term review with about a week's worth of workstation level activity. Keep in mind mechanical (and even SSD) drives **WILL** fail eventually. Best to have a backup and rotate out old drives every few years. Treat drives as consumables with limited life. tl;dr: the drive is, well, it spins up, stores the data put to it, and able to read it back correctly. It is relatively quiet. No louder than other 7200RPM drives, but you're unlikely to forget that it is sitting there on your desk. The fan on your enclosure will likely be louder than the drive motor, but the noise is additive. Drop test to test the shock sensor: Ha ha. Funny. Um, no. Don't drop your drive while it is on if at all possible. Spinning rust on metal/glass plates with read/write heads a hair's diameter distance from that surface subject to sudden high g and power lost is likely a non-recoverable event. Which model should you get? Is the extra $15-$25 for the extra cache worth it? It depends if your workflow produce files that is larger than the cache of the drive. If your data is made up mostly of spreadsheets and word processing or other smaller files. You are better off with the lesser cache as you are unlikely to take advantage of the larger cache. If you do minor image editing (crop, levels, curves, color grading) with relatively few image layers and RAW to JPEG conversions, you'll likely benefit from the extra cache. If you do heavy duty image editing/composition with multiple image layers and/or video editing, you'll likely not get too much benefit out of the caches as you'll more than likely overwhelm them with your file sizes.

I use this drive in a NAS, and it's been a great drive, until recently, it was a single volume, and was purchased to increase my NAS capacity for less critical data that didn't need to be part of a RAID group. However, recently one of the drives in my RAID array started to run exceptionally hot, and not wanting to spend additional money, I opted to swap the bad HGST drive out for this one. While it's generally not ideal to run a RAID array with different drives, this was the most economical solution for the time being. This drive runs much cooler at 37°C/98°F compared to the HGST drive that is currently running at 48°C/118°F.

I purchased four of these for a Synology NAS years ago. Several years later, I purchased another one that was meant to be a spare. Because of the quality and reliability, the spare is still in a drawer in the original box and I am retiring the NAS. They functioned well in my Synology and have outlived it. With four of these running, the NAS is still quiet.

I don't usually write reviews because most of the items I buy are functional out of the box without problems, but this HDD from Toshiba was a first exception. I've owned many drives before, and they would never fail for at least 5-6 years. for the first 2 months of owning this drive, everything worked fine, speeds were good, but the drive was really noisy compared to a WD-Black that I have, almost all other reviews mentioned that issue, but I thought it's not a big deal as long as the drive works. Next thing I know, after I copied some backup files from SSD, the folder direction (of the copied files) no longer can be deleted, moved or modified, it said "location can't be accessed". I thought it could be used by another process or something like that, so following a computer restart the windows took forever to boot, and the drive was significantly slower than expected, doing CHKDSK it got stuck at phase 1 at 95% for literally 3-5 days, it was stuck at same sector for more than 3 days. I had to turn it off. I ran HDD regenerator, and it showed thousands of "delayed sectors" and thousands of "bad sectors", it couldn't even be repaired because its delay was beyond the scope of human lifespan. partition was RAW at that point, and all files has been lost forever. all recovery attempts would fail due to extreme delay in reading each single sector (imagine how long it would take for billions of sectors). luckily I was able to return it within the return window in Amazon, moral of the story: if there's many bad reviews on HDD then it's for a reason, and you should avoid it like the plague. it turns out, after digging much in online forums, that cerain models even from reputable companies like Toshiba or WD can be prone to failure more than other models. so when buying HDD one should look out for exact model-reputation not just the brand. Toshiba is a good brand, but this very product is a dissapointing chapter. LOOK ELSEWHERE

I bought this HDD to replace an older Toshiba. I saw a few negative reviews, but since they all had an older post date, I hoped that whatever kinks were there, Toshiba corrected them. In addition, this HDD is used by the big data companies such as Google and their reports on it were encouraging. So far, my HDD (8tb version) performs as expected: no noise, no heat, no problems. I do keep it in an external enclosure, away from the heat of my workstation, but don't know if that was truly necessary. Knowing that heat kills any HDD, with the only question being "how quickly?", I prefer to keep my important HDDs cool. To do that, you can buy one of those docking stations hook it up via USB3 and your HDDs will perform without a glitch for many years to come (Very likely to exceed their usually MTBF). Again: no noise, no heat, no problems, just as I expected from Toshiba.

No thanks

I purchased this hard drive whilst on offer Dec 2019 but never got round to installing it till now, but as my Nas only had 625gb space left I thought I would swap out a 3tb drive for this 8tb. Installed it, Drobo picked it up and started to rebuild its raid, came back to it under an hour later with red lights flashing and a warning that the drive failed. Warranty has run out so I am now stuck with a brick. What a waste of time and money!

Lo estoy usando como archivo muerto y para mi galería de Steam por el momento, las velocidades de lectura y escritura son realmente satisfactorias y constantes por lo que los juegos cargan muy agilmente. Es muy audible el sonido del lector, no es algo malo, solo a tener en cuenta

Leider zeigt die Platte bereits nach einer Woche Nutzung bedenkliche S.M.A.R.T.-Werte (siehe Screenshot), also geht die HD zurück. Die Retourenabwicklung bei Einkäufen im Globalstore ist bei weitem nicht so kundenfreundlich, wie bei amazon national.