Seagate, WD alternative Toshiba 6TB CMR HDD for NAS/Plex Servers falls to lowest price

If you want to set up storage for your NAS (network-attached storage) or perhaps your Plex or other media and home server, Toshiba is offering its N300 PRO hard disk drives (HDDs) at great prices. The latest discount applies on the 6TB model although the 8TB and other variants are also worth checking out (purchase links below).

Toshiba says that these are made for NAS and for good reason. The drives are based on CMR or conventional magnetic recording technology making them ideal for heavy-duty 24x7 usage and long up times, which is ideal for NAS and home servers. Of course, you can use them for backup purposes as well. Toshiba also claims that these are optimized for RAID and support up to 24 drive bays.

As for specs, these drives come with a spindle speed of 7200 RPM which is pretty fast and they also pack 512MB of cache. Toshiba claims speeds of up to 281 MB/s in terms of sustained performance. Meanwhile, in terms of endurance or workload rate, they are rated for 300 TB of data per year. The Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) is 1.2 million hours and load/unload cycles of 600K.

The operating temperature of these drives is 5 to 60 degrees C and they are fairly quiet too as the acoustic level at idle is 20dB. For those who may not be the most familiar, Toshiba makes HDDs fairly comparable in quality to WD and Seagate and it can be seen with the most recent failure data rate by Backblaze.

Get the Toshiba N300 PRO HDDs at the links below:

• Toshiba N300 PRO 8TB 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 - HDWG780XZSTB: $194.99 (Amazon US)

• Toshiba N300 PRO 6TB 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 - HDWG760XZSTB: $164.99 (Amazon US)

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