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Toshiba X300 6TB Desktop Internal Hard Drive Review

Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2018-04-04

Judging by the transfer rates, the X300 6TB drive from Toshiba has performed admirably and easily topped our charts; we were also surprised to see that the seek noises were kept at low levels, while the drive did not overheat during our stress benchmarks. Paired with a SSD as a boot drive, this particular model can be easily recommended for gaming systems, backups, video rendering/encoding, which do take a lot of storage space.

Packaging, A Closer Look

In this article, we will concentrate our look upon on the latest Toshiba consumer HDDs, which is the X300; it is available in 4TB, 5TB, 6TB and 8TB capacities, its rotational speed is 7200RPM, while the average latency time is 4.17ms. Compared to the P300 series, X300 comes with 128MB of cache (twice the quantity) and the 6TB model we are reviewing does use no less than six platters. The product did ship inside a cardboard enclosure, which shows the product specs right from the frontal layer:

The drive main features can be observed on one of the sides:

Additionally, we will learn that the drive does come with Advanced Format AF logo, meaning that the X300 does support 512-byte emulation:

These details are written in multiple languages, if we do check the backside of the packaging:

For avoiding damages and also for shock-dampening purposes, Toshiba has used two separate air pocket shells. An installation guide can be found inside the box as well:

While the installation is quite straightforward, Toshiba has included the said document in multiple languages:

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