Toshiba X300 6TB 7200RPM 128MB 3.5" SATA

So I got mine (4tb) back in early 2018, and at time of writing (early 2020), I have to say I've had 0 issues with it. The short summary: Pros: -Big -Cheap for what it is -No real noticeable lag. It's a little slower than my laptop's SSD, but you'd be getting an SSD 4x smaller for the same -installation is bog standard HDD installation price Cons: -Rattles a bit when in a lot of use (not something that bothers me) -Some people have reported problems (can't speak for them, 2 years, no issues) -Sticker doesn't match my PC's internal colour scheme (mileage may vary) Here is what I think: When it says "for professionals", that's probably one of the key things you want to consider. Ultimately, this drive is loud as hell as far as drives go. When idling, it doesn't really make a lot of noise, but do anything with it, and it's like someone's tinkering with an old lawnmower (it's a switched off lawn mower, but very echoey and in a garage next door). Now. Being an hardcore e🅱️ic gamer, much of the time, I have my speakers on (or headphones if you're a headphone person). So when I'm using this, it's because I'm playing a game, and as such, I can't hear it once the game has started, due to other noises going on. You've got to square this away yourself really. I find computer noises relaxing, so a little rattling from under my desk doesn't rattle me, but if you're honestly bothered by that, then it's not for you. Reviews I read before purchasing appeared to suggest it was mainly built as a budget dedicated server option, and considering many people I know don't in fact want 300+ games installed at a time, that seems about right. So just remember. You're getting good performance, and big size out of a fairly cheap drive (as far as relatively high speed drives go). The concession is a little noise occasionally, or a lot if you're a habitual ctrl+s person, and you're working with blender or something, then a little noise a lot. I use a different drive for my art stuff though, and word documents and code go to the cloud, so these are not use cases I can really report back about. It was easy to install, it's literally just a bog standard hard drive installation. I can't remember if I had to format it, but it's not my OS drive, and if it was, it still wouldn't matter, because ultimately, when you set up from scratch, the installation wizard gives you an option to do it as far as I can remember. The main take away here though, is that the installation process was problem free enough that after 2 years, my main stick out memory of buying this was thinking I got a good deal on 4tb, and now I return, because I only have 25ish gb left. Should I uninstall some games? Hell no. Get back in the bin with your terrible advice. I can't speak for the 1 star reviews. Ultimately, if the drives are failing after months or a year in those cases, then that sucks, and that's a legitimate complaint. However, I can't speak for them because of the fact that mine has lasted 2 years now with not a single issue and a higher than average amount of moving my desktop from place to place. With any product you buy, you're rolling the dice, and there's a certain probability you will get a dud, but I honestly cannot recommend this enough. Especially considering that I use this probably about 8-9 hours a day at the best times. I've really put this through its paces, and mucked about with partitioning, and it's been pretty solid.

I have been buying and building computers since the IBM 286 (1 meg ram) costing over a £1,000 was the cutting edge technology, I had a 40 Meg drive in it and that was considered to be so large you would never fill it, and to replace was well over £200. Things have certainly moved on and buying a fast 4TB platter drive for £95 was unimaginable then, now paying £23.75p a Tb means that 40 meg drive would have cost £3.80 today, clearly Moores law is as relevant today as it was in 1965 with all things technology based. Anyway less history and down to reviewing the drive. Its fast for a non SSD drive being helped by the 7200 rpm platter and the 128 meg buffer. The product details on Amazon are very basic and even incorrect stating its a Solid State Hard Drive which clearly it isn't, check out the Toshiba website for the specs and there are some great reviews on-line. My Mobo is 8 years old so I wasn't sure how easy it would be to partition and format this drive. I decided to structure the partition as GPT which went very smoothly without a hitch and format it NTFS which also went very smoothly, my system is Windows 10 64 bit pro. The Drive formatted to 3.6 tb which is correct for a 4tb HD. Interestingly I copied over 900 meg from my 1TB WD Caviar Black drive (7200 rpm platter and 64 meg buffer) and it only occupied approx 650 meg space on the new drive. I triple checked this was correct and it was, all files had been copied no hidden files missed, I know the drives storage is more efficient but I didn't expect that efficient. I have tested the drive and it is about 30% faster than the Caviar but obviously not as fast as my SSD's. Its quiet, well made, it doesn't hesitate to spin up when accessed and will be the main storage for all my big files/directories and games that don't need to be on an SSD. I have no intention to use it as a boot disc, although it would be fine if your mobo can boot to it, just not as fast as an SSD. It arrived in the Toshiba packaging which is great not OEM packaging as some reviewers mention. Finally there have been some negative reviews and some very positive reviews but tbh that will be the case with all makes of drive and I have used all makes over the years, e.g. my 1TB WD Caviar Black considered the fastest and most reliable HD possible at the time, has negative reviews but mine has been faultless for over 6 years of constant use. So don't worry about this drive,perhaps a slight niggle is the 2 year warranty, 3 or 5 would have been nice but it is what it is. I very happy with it, as long as its reliable and only time will tell, I see no reason why it wont be my main storage until SSD 4tb drives are as cheap as chips. So yes, its recommended by me and if I do run into issues at a later date I will update this review.

I was thinking witch one to choose Toshiba or WD and decided to try this one, never had Toshiba HDD before, but Toshiba products that I had where great and reliable. It arrived well packet. Some photos from amazon website does not look like a real thing you will get - I am adding some photos of how it looks and test speed made with Crystal Disc Mark. From its hardware settings it is similar to WD black, but less pricey and maybe (just maybe) less reliable. I had it now for few days and I like its speed, performance except noisy trashing sound it makes when head moves - it is louder than any hard drive that I’ve had. Backing up data from old 3TB WD that had 36mb/s speed took some time, but now with 212ms/s speed HDD it is a huge difference in performance. Great hard drive - the only bad thing I could say about it the noise it makes. Now it is noisiest component in my computer :( Good: secure packaging, value vs performance, speed. Bad: noisy!

I purchased this to upgrade the storage in my main PC - both in capacity and performance. The drive comes in retail packaging with plenty of protection around the drive so it should survive a few knocks in the post which is reassuring. Pros: - Performance drive - fast seek times and larger RAM caches than the desktop series - Should be reliable (Toshiba drives have a good reputaton) - Very well packaged Cons: - Retail packaged but no screws or cables included - Head seeking can be audible in a quiet machine - Only 2 year warranty (many others have 3 years or more) Installation is the same as any other 3.5" drive and my PC detected it immediately. If you have never installed an internal hard drive before - you need to partition and format the drive before it will be available for use. To do this open Disk Management (right click Start menu -> choose Run -> type "diskmgmt.msc" and click OK). After preparing the drive in Disk Management I benchmarked the drive with CrystalDiskMark - check the pictures included with this review. It performs very well for a drive of this class. Bear in mind this drive has audible seek noises under heavy use. This is common with performance drives as the faster access times demand that the drive head assembly moves quickly causing more noise than in a slower drive. If this bothers you, consider the Toshiba P300 drive series instead. Toshiba fairly recently returned to the 3.5" hard drive market (back in 2012) and I have been pleased with their drives so far including this one.

This review is aimed at gamers and is for the 4TB X300 model. I've spent the last few weeks looking for a new HD drive to compliment my SSD drives. Currently there are 3 makers of HD drives; Seagate, Weston Digital and Toshiba. All other HD drives are OEM from these 3. Normally I'd go with Seagate, they have been around a long time and are normally a decent drive at a fair price but recently they have been adding shingled drives into the consumer drive market (for more info google 'Shingled magnetic recording' and more importantly see the increased resource/write overheads), and whilst these are decent enough for archive purposes, they are not really ideal for a gaming rig. So that leaves WD or Toshiba, and as the later is a 7200 drive and is almost half the price of the similar WD Black I'm replacing & hearing good things about them, I thought I'd give it a try, and I'm glad I did. It's fast, at a good price and is much quieter than the WD Black it replaced. I went with the retail version because it comes in decent packaging, that was important for me, I'm not sure I'd risk an OEM/Bulk version due to the poor packaging that Amazon uses for OEM HD drives. I'll be sure to edit this if I have any future problems with the drive.

I'm liking this HDD, it's not silent but it's not very noisy either more of a quiet reassuring thrum while it goes about it's business and even though we are well into the age of the SSD this old style drive of the past actually feels reasonably quick in operation, the specs have it as fairly average on paper but it feels very responsive in use, I'm using it as game and media storage and it works great, It's a lot better than any previous HDD I've used before, if it proves reliable too (supposedly very good in that department) then I shall be very happy with this drive.

Works great, easy to install. Initially the PC did not recognise this new hard drive this video on YouTube helped me to fix the problem (Where did my external hard drive go). This new hard drive is faster than my older WD hard drive. I am giving 3 stars because it makes this strange noise when transferring larger files (10GB). It sounds like your neighbour is drilling something. : )

This is a first impression, having only recieved the device in the last 24 hours, but so far it works with the advertised speeds. It's got the expected space (3.6TB available in the 4TB model I got), and read/write speeds seem as they should be (Around 180MB/s) So far my only complaint is that it's noisy, at least compared to my old HDDs. It may just be a case of breaking the drive in since it's so new. But it does have a noticable sound. Similar to that of an old Disc Drive. I can see myself geting used to it, or not noticing it because of headphones in the future however. Good product, would recommend as long as you don't mind a little bit of noise.

Due esemplari acquistati, provati prima in una docking station USB poi inseriti nel NAS ed effettuato test approfondito. Nessun settore difettoso rilevato; dopo 3 giorni di uso estremamente intensivo (test e copia di oltre 2 TB su ciascuno) effettuato smart test (quick) su entrambi. Nessun problema riscontrato. Update: rimasti in servizio fino a dicembre 2019 con utilizzo intenso e ininterrotto. Sostituito tutto il sistema, ora li utilizzo come backup, con utilizzo scarso ma sistematico. Entrambi ancora in ottimo stato

So die Platte ist nun da und läuft. Sie ist eindeutig lauter als meine WD Green und Red Platten aber das hält sich im Rahmen. Dreht dafür schneller:-) Zu Transferraten kann man im Internet reichlich lesen, darum belasse ich es dabei. Da sie bei mir als Datengrab dient, spielt es auch für mich keine all zu große Rolle. Schauen wir mal wie lange sie hält... So und nun zu Amazon: Hermes Lieferung: 3 Tage (ok war angekündigt)... aber schnell ist anders. Das größte Manko ist wohl das die Mitarbeiter bei Amazon leider nicht wissen wie man HDDs zu verpacken hat. Polsterung...Fehlanzeige...! Schön das Toshiba mit einer Luftpolsterung in der Originalverpackung dem entgegenwirkte. Ich bezweifle aber ob dies ausreicht und beobachte, wie sich dieser "Höllenritt" auf die Haltbarkeit auswirkt. AMAZON BEREICH VERSAND: 1 Stern wenn überhaupt!!! Das kenne ich von anderen HW-Händlern sehr viel besser. Hier besteht seitens Amazon Handlungsbedarf.

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Oui, il est assez bruyant : un sifflement du à la vitesse de rotation qui ne s'atténue pas, même avec un montage sur amortisseurs caoutchouc. Mais il est rapide avec ses 7200tr/min et son buffer de 128Mo, avec un espace très suffisant et c'est bien ce que je lui demande. Je l'utilise ponctuellement, en boitier externe pour y stocker toutes mes photos et catalogues lightroom, aussi le bruit ne me dérange pas. Si vous cherchez un volume de stockage rapide et efficace n'hésitez pas.

Ho ordinato questo X300 da 4 Tb per sostituire il mio fido Caviar Black da 1 Tb adibito alla fotografia. Inizialmente titubante (il WD ha sempre avuto ottime prestazioni), mi son subito ricreduto: è veloce quanto e forse più del WD suddetto, è silenzioso e non scalda neppure troppo. Davvero un prodotto valido.