Review on 💽 Toshiba 16TB SATA Enterprise Desktop Hard Drive - MG08ACA16TE: 7200RPM, 512e, 3.5 by Mike Donathan

These drives have a pretty good track record with Backblaze (although they still don't have as many samples as some others), so I decided to rate them. I decided to replace my old 6TB WD Blue and 3TB WD Red drives. Lately I've been let down by WD practices (especially the 'head park' feature that can't be turned off anymore, like on my Blue Drive) so I'm about to switch brands now. So far so good - hard drives seem to work fine as long as they don't fail, so hopefully this one will last. The disc was sent in a very nice foam packaging top and bottom, so thanks to the seller for that. When transferring data, I noticed that this record can produce strange and rather sharp "clicks". Others have observed this and I would like to add my feelings to it. Besides being a little confusing, I don't think it's really a big deal, especially since I use hard drives for long term storage these days and it's imperceptible in normal "idle" mode, just during the time (possibly even only difficult ) activity. This only happened intermittently when I was moving data, so I'm not sure what's causing this noise. It's okay, everything seems to be working for him. I will amend and update this review (if I still can) if the drive fails. 16TB is a good amount today, but of course it's "market size" so after formatting it will be around 14.5TB if your situation is similar to mine.