Just wondering if any one uses these drives. Currently use 4tb ironwolfs, I'm going to be slowly upgrading to larger drives. Toshiba seems to be a little cheaper. Online reviews seem OK. Just wonder if real life usage out there. 

Edited February 13, 20215 yr by coblck

I have some N300 6TB, as well as the X300, good performance and no failures so far, I do find them a bit noisy though, rotation noise, not seek, if that's a problem.

Great good to hear, yeah that's the only negative point being the noise, shouldn't bother me so i think will give them a go, many thanks 

 

 

I had both N300 and X300 drives in various sizes.  No issues.

I bought 2 toshiba x300 for my array.  one failed within 6 mo, and both ran a few degrees hotter than my Deskstars.  It turned me off to toshibas, i am sticking with WD red plus and pro, and seagate exos and my least fav the ironwolf nas (bec its 7200 rpm and i only like those speeds for parity).

My 8tb n300 in now  ( only been a week mind you) running fine and cool and not any noiser than my seagate iron wolfs 4tb if im honest. Using it as parity, see how it goes as looking for drives to upgrade my 4tb ones.

My Unraid build is solitarily based on Toshiba N300 drives in regard to HDD's. (4/8 TB)

Also had one X300 running until I swapped it out for a bigger one. N300 of course.

Due to my experience does the X300 run a little more warm than the N300. Then again is X300 a cheaper drive.

Once a new N300 drive failed during zeroing at first time use and got a RMA disk without any problem.

No other drive N300 died on me yet. Admit to be very pleased with the N300 series.

Edited February 26, 20215 yr by SME Storage
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I've just bought two 8 tb N300 drives and I'm getting a pre-failure for Seek Error Rate on the one I've set as parity.

 

  7 Seek_Error_Rate         PO-R--   038   038   050    NOW  0

 

Seems to be a common issue, some/most times it goes way after a couple of power cycles.

Yeah, I've just done a preclear over that drive and it appears to be okay. Passes SMART tests now but still has a mark saying it failed previously:

 

 7 Seek_Error_Rate         PO-R--   100   037   050    Past 0

 

Unsure what to do, RMA or just keep it?

Edited January 19, 20224 yr by dacunno

I'd keep it, like mentioned it's common with those drives, possibly a firmware issue. 

On 1/20/2022 at 4:09 AM, JorgeB said:

I'd keep it, like mentioned it's common with those drives, possibly a firmware issue. 

 

Where can firmware updates for Toshiba hard drives be downloaded? I've been searching for a few days and can not find anything.

 

 

Edited November 30, 20232 yr by Vetteman