While the transfer rates are a bit lower when compared with 7200RPM drives of the same capacity, we are seeing good numbers for both reads and writes, making the P300 4TB a great mainstream drive, for use along an SSD. Considering that the necessary space for storing multimedia content such as games, 4K movies but also productivity tools has been increased considerably (we have seen some AAA gaming titles requiring over 100GB of space), a drive like this should be the answer if you are not overly-pretentious regarding loading times. Another great use for these drives is for backups and generally lower RPM drives tend to produce less vibrations as well.

You may ask yourselves why are we still recommending 5400RPM drives in 2020? Well, the answer is pretty simple: price. These drives have decreased in price that much so for the same money you could only buy an entry-level to mainstream SSD up to 1TB that would usually reach 6-7MB/s when writing continuously to it after the SLC portion of the drive has been completely filled.

Yes, this drive can be purchased online for just about 82 Euros, which is great!

Toshiba P300 4TB Desktop PC Hard Drive is Recommended for:

We would like to thank again to Toshiba Corporation for making this review possible!