Toshiba N300 8TB NAS Hard Drive Review

Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2018-11-20

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 MTTF of 1 million hours and are available with four different capacities: 4TB, 6TB, 8TB (128MB cache) and 10TB (256MB cache).

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Test Setup and Extra Info

The test bench was composed from the following hardware:

 

CPU: Intel I5 8600K Retail

CPU Cooler: Deepcool Captain 240 EX RGB AIO

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming

RAM: Currently tested kit

Video: KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 OC 6GB

Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W

SSD: OCZ Vector 150

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840


The drive has arrived unformatted:

 

 

In order to conduct our tests, we went ahead and formatted the drive to NTFS:

 

 

With AIDA64 Engineer software tool, we can extract more information regarding the internal drive:

 

 

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