Toshiba Enterprise MG Series 3.5" 16TB SATA 3

Toshiba MG08ACA16TE 16TB , The drive was ordered on Nov. 1, and was delivered on the 4th. Great, fast delivery. It was packaged very well, box within a heavy duty box, with great padding. On attaching the drive to my computer, it did not see it, after checking cables and such, I open control panel went to - Administrative Tools - Create and format hard disk. It needed to be formatted and given a disk letter, I did this. It did not show after this, I found out I needed to do the disk Letter again. Once the disk letter was given the drive showed up. It was 14.5 TB - Good enough, for some reason a lot of these drives fall short of the stated capacity. I trust Toshiba drives, great buy.--- Jan. 25, 2023, sorry to say the drive just stop working, my computer just does not see it. I did try basic trouble shooting, but I know one can get bogged down for month trying to figure these things out. Calling it a day and ordering another, did not bother to try and return it.

Failed to spin up after a week of use, and Amazon would not issue a refund after I returned it.

In a world going to SSD drives, or NVME, this may seem old technology. But 16 Terabytes is a LOT of storage. I used this to make full backups of all the computers in the family. Then I just put this one drive in the save. I was able to use with a SATA to USB adapter, one that had it's own power supply. Then ran it from the USB port external. It's fast enough, not SSD but I don't care when making backups. You can't buy this much storage for a reasonable price any other way. And I trust Toshiba. It was obviously brand new, and plugging it in, it had to be initialized, which is good, I'm really the first.

These are helium filled drives. Works fine on install; only time will tell if these drives last. I will come back if I get any failures. I've installed them in Netgear network attached storage devices. It takes several days for the second 16TB drive to synch with the first one, so don't worry that anything's wrong. Oh, and you only get 14.5 TB of usable storage on a 16 TB labeled drive. This is normal.

Storage capacity is as noted, and read / write speeds are right where they should be, but the drive makes more noise that I'd expect. Most drives these days you can't hear hardly at all, and this one is loud enough to clearly hear. To be fair, its not "loud", but give the standard of near silence, it doesn't meet the mark.

I chose Platinum Micro as the seller after contacting them with some questions. I got 2 and then ordered 2 more later. All serial numbers showed up with 4.5+ years of warranty still left as shown on Toshiba's Check Warranty site. One drive started having problems down the line and Toshiba RMAed it easily with a brand new drive. Would highly recommend! Just make sure you pick the seller carefully as it looks like a lot of people got drives from other sellers without warranty through Toshiba and some got refurbished ones. I don't know why people don't contact the sellers first since it's not sold directly through the manufacturer on here. They are a little noisy, but that's the way all enterprise drives are.

Performance seems to be comparable to or maybe a little bit slower than other drives that I have. The biggest issue I have with this drive is the noise. It is normally acceptable when compared to my other drives but there are times it sounds like a nail on a chalkboard. It actually startles me when I am in deep concentration working on something. It is sitting on my desktop in an external enclosure but I have 11 other drives (a mix of Toshiba and Seagate) and none of them come even close to the noise this drive occasionally makes. It is so bad that I have now replaced it with another Seagate. I don't know if this noise is a prelude to failure or not but definitely would NOT recommend this drive.

I barely ran it for 3 days before starting having issues. The problem with this (16TB) drive is it crashes when dealing with many smaller files. It has no issues with moving larger video files. I can transfer those around all day, many terabytes at a time without a problem. But when I move around a few thousand smaller sub 10mb files, it works for about 10 seconds, then makes a brief squealing sound, and just crashes. Its removed from the windows device list and then is found again about 10 seconds later. If I reinitiate the transfer of small files, it just crashes again. So something is up. Not sure if its systemic to the design of these drive (cant handle quick read/writes) or if its just a defective drive but I cannot afford the time to diagnose this issue. Oh one last note. This drive gets very hot. Even when left out on the table exposed, it gets very hot. Much hotter than all my other drives which are actually inside the computer case.

Normally I use the N300 series but my latest NAS devices is not compatible with them. These however, it is. This is a new attempt for me and have no real experience with these drives but based on the amazing success of the N300 NAS drives, I bought these with confidence and so far, loaded no problem, formatted, configured RAID 5 and copied 20TB onto them as a test and so far so good.

Happy with performance, using on UDM-ProMax as a single drive. I did figure out noise is less than my previous HDD ironwolf pro.

Enorme opslag, snel en stil. Jaar in gebruik en nog steeds 100% in orde.

Buena calidad , buen precio , excelente funcionamiento

Great, reliable HDD. Running in my QNAP 24/7 for 3+ years and no problems at all. The good thing with these is that they have some kind of vibration mitigation inside so if you use multiple HDDs in one enclosure then they don't destroy each other via their vibration. Perfect for a NAS.