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Toshiba Drives

Quality is great, noise is high and temps is average... The reason I like them is because they only have a couple of models in a range so I know what I am getting. With others it is always a guess. I might get one of 10 different versions and work vastly different from what I expect. I dont want to check the dink and klong and see what I want to get. And something even the dinsk dont tell the whole story. The people who got the drives they expected would give great reviews, those who did not would say they are crap. If the price is not too high I would just go for a sure thing. Oh did I mention the Toshiba's have the fastest drives I seen yet? 50% better latency and 20% faster speeds.. I am not sure how faster speeds are possible as they all seem to use the same platters and same rpm but I will take it. Especially the faster latency where I can short stroke the boot partition to like 250GB and get almost ssd like performance.
 
I just bought a couple of the 6TB models for $230 each (I had been waiting for the price to go below $200, but I needed a couple 6TB units now). I am doing burn-in testing now. I was impressed to see that the top sequential read/write speed is about 210 MB/s. I can complete a full 6TB write to the drive in a bit under 10 hours, so the average sequential speed is almost 170 MB/s. Certainly the fastest sequential HDDs I have owned.

That 5TB model is a great deal at under $150 (less than $30 per TB). I would have liked to save money and gotten some of those instead, but I needed 6TB.
 
I have 3TB Toshiba and it's best HDD that I've ever owned. It's pretty much silent and fast. At least the 3TB version doesn't have head parking nonsense like all those Seagates (tsirp tsirp tsirp... like little birdies inside your case).
 
drives are based on hitachi tech, so they are great, and price is hard to be beat.

I have 2 3TB, 1 4TB and 3 5TB, no problem so far. since they are 7200rpm drives temps are a bit higher then 5200/5900rpm drives, but pretty much the same as other 7200rpm drives.

all 6 of mine make no noise
 
Toshiba drives are owned by Seagate. Read it in info.When I was going to by one told by store manager. Just so you know.
 
I have a mix of both Toshiba and WD, all brands make quality stuff.

Even though they are "slow" my preference is still the Green's. Those are my always on drives.
 
That's all very great to hear. I wonder how their RMA process is. I've seen a couple 'not so good' reviews regarding that but you always gotta take those with a grain of salt without knowing the source.
 
Teerex20 said:
Toshiba drives are owned by Seagate. Read it in info.When I was going to by one told by store manager. Just so you know.
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tip number 1, don't listen to stupid store managers, they don't have a clue what they are talking about
 
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