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Review on πŸ’Ύ Toshiba N300 4TB NAS Internal Hard Drive - CMR SATA 6 GB/s 7200 RPM 128 MB Cache - HDWQ140XZSTA by Jason Ballard

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Failure after only 8 months VERY light use in well-cooled NAS. Also very LOUD!

On the screenshot you can see that the low running time together with the number of reallocated sectors demonstrates the main feature of this drive: it crashes, fast and hard. and squeaks like a 90's drive, it would make my entire NAS vibrate, even with the rubber drive bay bumpers on. In addition, he left the squad after only a few months. I added it back and it worked for a few more months but stopped again. Attempting to add it back fails after several hours before eventually going into a 'Lost Connection' state. Now it doesn't even get formatted in Windows, it just gives an error message that the operation failed. I hope they handle the warranty because this disc is absolute rubbish. UPDATE: They are absolutely not responsible for their warranty. I opened the RMA and packaged the disc according to the RMA recommendations. They sent an RMA and haven't replied to me yet. I assume Toshiba has become a scam company?

Pros
  • High performance 7200rpm drive with large cache
Cons
  • No performance