Toshiba N300 8TB NAS 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive - CMR SATA 6 GB/s 7200 RPM 512 MB Cache - HDWG780XZSTA

I have a dedicated 24/7 NAS setup using a Synology DS 723+ which I upgraded to 32GB RAM and 2 TB of M2 Cache and use in RAID 1. I first setup the NAS in late 2023 with 2 of these 8TB N300 and around October 2025 I received a warning that one of the hard drives failed. I therefore bought a new one which had slightly diff specs since it was newer (512mb vs 256mb cache). It worked seamlessly (plug and play) and the RAID was rebuilt. I have the NAS in a dedicated area not is not in close proximity so noise was not a concern for me. However when up close the drives do make a little more noise than other hard drives. Not thunderous but not silent either. In summary, the drives work well. I had one failure just after 2 years (which is reasonable in my view) and replacement was seamless for rebuilding the RAID.

Absolutely outstanding drives. Truly unmatched in performance and reliability. I bought 6 of them and couldn’t be happier. Perfect for NAS use — stable, fast, and quiet for their class. It’s a pity there’s a current shortage, I’m waiting for availability to buy 2 more. Highly recommend.

I ordered 5 N300 Pro (14tb) to use in a NAS. It surprised me how quiet the drives are and how cool they run. So far most of my time has only been spent rebuilding the storage pool, but I'm happy with the drives and their cool running temps. Granted my NAS is not very beefy in terms of hardware, but temps and noise is comparable to my old 4TB WD100EFAX drives. All drives passed the extended SMART test. Regarding the warranty, what other folks said is true, I checked my drives and they all showed NO WARRANTY on the Toshiba site. But with that said, I also bought some 6TB WD drives from Amazon as spares for another NAS and those also show "NO LIMITED WARRANY" on the WD site, same boat there.

great device , works as expected and fast too !!

It does what it’s supposed to do. My only pet peeve is slow on turning on and it always sounds like it’s having spasms inside.

So far so good. 2.5 months in a Qnap NAS. Glad I got them before the latest price spike. Be sure to shop around.

Very nice drives. These are really quiet and run cooler in my QNAP NAS than the WD Red drives I replaced. I think the helium filling helps in reducing heat. It has been a couple of decades since I have had a Toshiba drive. It is great to see that the quality is still there.

I bought 4 of these (10TB version) ahead of setting up a new NAS. Unfortunately, 1 started failing quickly but not enough to notice. After multiple NAS issues requiring the array to be rebuilt, I eventually hit an issue with the NAS OS. Turns out, when looking at SMART statistics, that the disk was struggling. Eventually, mdadm marked the disk as failed and removed it from the RAID5 array. This has caused a lot of headache, and I feel the disk died prematurely under normal usage. There were some rebuilds of the array that occurred that were IO heavy, but that just revealed the underlying problem eventually - that this disk is bad. On top of that, I need another one, but the price has increased $30 each. I'm going to order another one so I can make my NAS happy for a while, but going forward, I likely will stay away from Toshiba, even though they came recommended by a fellow techie as disks that run at a cool temp (and I confirmed - they indeed do!). If it hadn't of failed so quickly and caused me so much headache, I would have likely continued to purchase more of these over time.