Toshiba 3.5" N300 SATA600

Overview

The N300 has excellent performance characteristics (just like its X300 sibling). It also has features that make it ideal for use in a densely populated NAS enclosure, or in any other environment where it is housed in close proximity to other HDDs.

-- As reviewed by MyCE

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Last revision on May 14, 2019

Reviewers Liked

Build quality (180TB per year with an MTBF of 1.000.000 hours)
3 Year limited warranty
Solid performer

Reviewers Didn't Like

Only up to 8TB

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While it is not impossible to format this as a single Windows drive the will require more knowledge than most have to do so. In fairness would you want such a large single drive anyway especially if it was the boot drive. It is most likely to end up...

By GadgetSpeak on January 11, 2019

If you want smaller capacity drives for a NAS (1TB or 2TB), then the WD Red range is the only option. However, if you want a lot of storage for your NAS, then the N300 is the quicker drive, and to top it off, a 4TB, 6TB or 8TB N300 is cheaper than...

By IT PRO on January 24, 2018

100

By MyCE on July 12, 2017

WD and Seagate have had NAS-ready hard drives in the market place for quite some time – WD with the Red and Red Pro series and Seagate with the NAS, IronWolf and IronWolf Pro drives so it will be interesting to see how much of an inroad into the market...

By Kitguru.net on June 16, 2017

The Toshiba N300 is an excellent hard drive for NAS devices, coming with loads of features that give us confidence that any important files stored here will be very well looked after. It offers a nice range of high capacities, and while the price is...

By TechRadar on May 27, 2017

With the launch of the N300 series, Toshiba has a strong competitor on the enterprise storage/NAS market, that is able to offer good transfer speeds, is able to handle about 180TB of data per year and is approved for 24/7 operation. The drives have a...

By MadShrimps on November 20, 2018

Judging by its features and specifications it's quite clear that the N300 High Reliability Hard Drive for NAS by Toshiba was designed to take on the latest IronWolf HDD by Seagate both in terms of performance (we've yet to get our hands on the 6TB...

By NikkTech on August 30, 2017

During our testing, we found the Toshiba N300 6TB Hard Drive to be a solid performer that matches up well to other drives we tested. The faster speed and larger cache help the larger capacity drives keep up. The Toshiba N300 line, rated as...

By servethehome.com on July 12, 2017

With its solid performance and focus on reliability, the Toshiba N300 will excel in NAS environments and other high-performance storage...

By StorageReview on July 07, 2017

Specialized hard disks for networked storage are well-deservedly popular due to the combination of an affordable price, on the one hand, and characteristics not typical for desktop computers (24×7 operation guarantee, reliable mechanics and fault...

By hw4all.com on April 03, 2017

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