Toshiba N300 PRO 18TB Large-Sized Business NAS (up to 24 bays) 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive - Up to 300 TB/year Workload Rate CMR SATA 6 GB/s 7200 RPM 512 MB Cache - HDWG51JXZSTB

Great packaging, and the drive is still going strong 1 year later. Will order more

Still running 3 years later in a DAS

O produto chegou inteiro e funcionando, mas com o papel da garantia de outro produto, com o lacre violado e sinal de que já foi instalado. Pelo visto a Amazon brasileira não prima pela integridade. Eu comprei porque o preço estava atrativo, mas na informação do produto deveria constar que não era um produto virgem na embalagem lacrada. Só não devolvi de cara porque precisava com urgência. (Aliás, chegou um dia atrasado.) Comprar um HDD sem lacre não vale o risco, procurem um vendedor confiável. Só tirei mais estrelas porque chegou funcionando, mas sabe lá por quanto tempo — veio sem a garantia do produto.

I bought this Toshiba N300 PRO 16TB to expand a home NAS that runs 24/7 for media and backups. For a CMR NAS drive in this capacity class, it has been a straightforward, trustworthy install so far. Drop-in was uneventful: it identified cleanly, passed a full surface check before I trusted data to it, and sits in a multi-bay chassis with decent airflow. Sustained sequential transfers in my setup are where I expect a modern 7200-class NAS drive to land, and idle power draw has not been a problem on a small home server. The drive feels built for always-on duty rather than occasional desktop use. The main caveat is acoustic: spin-up and seek noise are noticeable in a quiet room if the chassis is nearby. That will not matter in a closet or rack, but it is not a silent bedroom machine. As with any large platter drive, give it time for a proper burn-in before migrating critical data. I would recommend it for home or small-office NAS builders who want 16TB of CMR capacity without chasing exotic enterprise pricing. Skip it if you need near-silent operation next to a desk, or if your workload is mostly random IOPS where an SSD tier makes more sense.

This is the standard drive I use in most of my NAS devices. We have a dozen users who use files on the NAS 16 hours a day, 7 days a week and these drives hold up well. In the past five years, out of 24 drives, I have only had 1 fail. I have tried other brands in the past with slightly worse stats. Note: Toshiba manufactures many other brands as well.