Toshiba N300 NAS Systems 10TB, SATA 6Gb/s, retail

Toshibas aktuelles NAS-Flaggschiff N300, 16 TB, darf in unserem Artikel um die Spitzenposition der maximalen Transferrate antreten und beweisen, ob an den erfolgreichen Test der N300 12TB angeknüpft werden kann. Mit 7.200 rpm und CMR-Aufnahmemethode besitzt die Helium-befüllte Festplatte alle Grundeigenschaften für ein gutes Ergebnis. Zusätzlich handelt es sich um den ersten Artikel der letzten drei Jahre mit einer Schallpegelmessung der Festplatte.

In no way is an HDD anno 2019 rather appealing anymore, but in a NAS unit it can make a lot of sense for backups and large file storage centralized in that small little home server of yours. Really the N300 hardly excels in anything as it shows almost 10 Watt power consumption when used, 7 Watts in idle. Read-write performance for an HDD is good as long as these are big files. The unit also runs a bit warm. What Toshiba does right is the pricing, at 3 cents per GB it is still 3x cheaper than the cheapest SSD will offer. So yes, in a desktop PC combined with an SSD this can make could make sense at 10 Cents per GB, or of course, house it inside what it was released, into a NAS. One advise I like to gove Toshiba though, the three-year warranty really should be 5 years to make these units more competitive towards NAND storage. The bottom line is that Toshiba proofs today that there is good reason for the HDD to be around if you're looking for massive storage at a far more affordable price per GB ratio. And for an HDD at 3 cents per GB that goes a long way, keep in mind that Toshiba also offers a volume size of 12 and 14TB.