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Toshiba N300 12TB NAS Hard Drive Review

Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2020-08-08

The N300 12TB drive from Toshiba incorporates 1.56TB PMR platters by Showa Denko and is helium-filled. Compared to regular, up 10TB models, the HDD produces less noise, consumes less power and is even lighter! The advertised Stable Platter Technology means that the motor is attached to both top and bottom in order to minimize the vibrations, while the RV sensors do ensure a stable transfer rate while operating in a multi-drive environment.

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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