coblck Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 (edited) 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, 2021 by coblck Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment
coblck Posted February 13, 2021 Author Share Posted February 13, 2021 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 Quote Link to comment
whipdancer Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 I had both N300 and X300 drives in various sizes. No issues. Quote Link to comment
PeteAron Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 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). Quote Link to comment
coblck Posted February 26, 2021 Author Share Posted February 26, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment
SME Storage Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 (edited) 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, 2021 by SME Storage typo Quote Link to comment
dacunno Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Seems to be a common issue, some/most times it goes way after a couple of power cycles. Quote Link to comment
dacunno Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 (edited) 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, 2022 by dacunno Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 I'd keep it, like mentioned it's common with those drives, possibly a firmware issue. Quote Link to comment
Vetteman Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 (edited) 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, 2023 by Vetteman Quote Link to comment
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