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Toshiba P300 6TB Desktop PC Hard Drive Review

Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2020-03-20

Over the previously tested P300 4TB, the 6TB version has improvements regarding both read and write speeds, but in regular operation the two drives will perform about the same. What is to be appreciated here is the increased storage capacity, while keeping the noise levels and power consumption to a minimum. We have performed out testing without a direct airflow to the drive, and never seen temperatures raising over 33 degrees Celsius, meaning that the product will operate fine in cases with less than decent ventilation as well.

Test Setup and Extra Info

The test bench was composed from the following hardware:

CPU: Intel I5 9700K Retail

CPU Cooler: Deepcool Captain 240 EX RGB AIO

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming

RAM: Patriot Memory Viper RGB Series DDR4

Video: KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 OC 6GB

Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W

SSD: OCZ Vector 150

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

First, we have conducted a surface test (HDD Sentinel Read + Write), in order to make sure that the drive has arrived safe from the courier:

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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