Toshiba's N300 3.5-inch NAS internal hard drive is designed to meet the reliability, performance, endurance, and scalability requirements of 24/7 network attached storage application for personal, home office and small business use.
The N300 delivers up to 16TB of storage capacity and provides up to 1,200,000 hour MTTF and designed for 24/7 power-on operation. This drive features rotational vibration (RV) sensors which automatically detect and compensate for transient vibrations to deliver consistent performance in multi-bay storage enclosures.
With support for up to 8 drive bays6 in a multi-RAID NAS design, the N300 is highly scalable to the users' NAS configurations as their data storage needs evolve.
The N300 NAS HDD line of high-reliability drives have a high workload rating of up to 180TB/year and are optimized for use in NAS environments where large amounts of data need to be efficiently stored and accessed daily.
Use for: - 1- to 8-bay NAS - Desktop RAID and servers - Multimedia server storage
Pros: Purchased two 8TB drives to replace the old 1TB drives in my Asustor AS6202T NAS. Working great so far. Nearly twice as fast as the old drives. A bit louder than the old drives.
Pros: I have 6 of these running in a RAID 5 configuration on a Synology NAS 1621+ with 32GB of ram. Installed easily, running very quiet and backed up several Terabytes of data without blinking an eye. Come highly recommended
Overall Review: 3 out of 3 initialized up and running with no bad sectors or smart errors.
Anonymous
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
Verified Owner
Failed within 1 hour of installing4/6/2022 8:28:58 PM
Pros: - Quiet drive, while it lasted
- Fast, while it lasted
- Cheap, but now dead so going to cost to replace
Cons: - Lasted 1 hour
Overall Review: I bought this HDD for my NAS server. Typically I have always used enterprise level drives such as Ultrastar 7k4000 but I saw this Toshiba N300 on sale and well, you get what you pay for.
I installed this drive in my server, booted it up, and after resilvering the RAID setup it worked great for about an hour. Now i get SMART fail tests every 30 minutes (see below) :
Apr 6 20:36:24 NASSRVR01 smartd[2086]: Device: /dev/ada0, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!
Apr 6 20:36:24 NASSRVR01 smartd[2086]: Device: /dev/ada0, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 7 Seek_Error_Rate.
Apr 6 21:06:23 NASSRVR01 smartd[2086]: Device: /dev/ada0, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!
Apr 6 21:06:23 NASSRVR01 smartd[2086]: Device: /dev/ada0, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 7 Seek_Error_Rate.
I don't know how I can get a replacement from Toshiba, but I read somewhere that this specific batch (July 2021) had a faulty motherboard so my guess is they dumped it on 3rd parties like Newegg to unload it for a cheap price. Thanks Toshiba!
Too early to properly rate a HDD2/9/2022 3:44:47 PM
Pros: Bought two; both formatted easily & and accepted large file transfers without problems. I use these drives in external SATA/USB3 enclosures to keep rotating system backups in a fire safe.
Pros: large 8 TB capacity nas drive. have had no problems with this drive yet. Installed loaded 3.5tb of info and move files on it no hick up ether.I got this drive to replace a 4tb sesgate drive.
Cons: I would recommend this drive
Overall Review: I would recomend this drive
Anonymous
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
Verified Owner
Running very smooth and quiet. Processing time is real fast.1/11/2022 9:34:25 AM
Overall Review: I would recommend this product to whom using it for nas or server system.
Pros: Purchased two 8TB drives to replace the old 1TB drives in my Asustor AS6202T NAS. Working great so far. Nearly twice as fast as the old drives. A bit louder than the old drives.
Cons: None noted so far.
Overall Review: I would recommend these drives.