Toshiba X300 6TB Performance & Gaming 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive – CMR SATA 6.0 GB/s 7200 RPM 128 MB Cache - HDWE160XZSTA

the drives i bought was the 4 terabyte toshiba x300 , the hard drives are great i have several of these same drives , they are perfect size , performance vs price , 7200 rpm large sizei have 2 ps4s ( very first model and second model ps4s og ps4s ) that have 6 terabytes tochiba x300 in both of them with these same drives INTERNAL( links to all products i used on amazon for my ps4s at the bottom of review )you get esata to sata cable and plug in the sata part of the cable into the internal ps4 portroute the cableout the front of the hard drive cage over the cage route the cable to the back of the ps4 and out the coner vent ,use electric tape and tape the cable down firmly , i used alotta tape here and it came out perfect nice and tight , cut the corner and second vent next to it to create one big vent and route the cable out that vent , then put hard drive cover on , the hardest part of this , is getting the sata cable onto the sata port of the ps4 , my very first time on both my ps4s i got it first time with needle nose pliersmine has been perfect ever since , however my son at 12 years old was not as careful and yanked his sata cable out somehow , upon trying to put sata cable back on i could not and wound up cutting his cage just so i could get the cable on wich i did and after that its worked fine , this mod to the ps4 works perfect but use common sense and do not yank the sata cable on the back , really i have no clue how he even did that as i had it done perfect so it could not movenow you have a ps4 with a sata cable coming out the back , now go on amazon and buy the rosewill external hard drive housing with esata port , it also has a fan on top a circle vent and on the front has blue led light , like the whole front of this housing lights up blue ( looks really good ontop the ps4 ) its always on amazon i think i paid 30 bucks for it search rosewill external hard drive housing esata and you will find ittake your x300 Toshiba hard drive and put it inside the housing , then plug esata part of the sata to esata cable into the back of the external housing ,sit the external housing on top of your ps4 on the side that the hard drive bay is ,now you have a ps4 with 6 terabytes of internal storagei never use rest mode , im sure you can but i never use it so i do not even know if it worksevery time you shut off your psd4 you must shut off your hard drive ( ON OFF WITH ON THE EXTERNAL HOUSING power switch )if you leave the hard drive external housing on after you shut off your ps4 when you come back if you turn on your ps4 it will show black screen , this is because you left the hard drive on with no source and the hard drive went into hibernation stateso to fix this plug in controller turn off ps4 , or just hit the power button and turn off ps4 , then turn on the hard drive then turn on ps4every time you must turn hard drive on first then ps4 , after a few times of getting a black screen that says ps4 can not detect hard drive and shutting off your ps4 then turning on the hard drive then turning on the ps4 and seeing all is good , after a few times of this you get used to it and it is a none issuei did this before the external update that gave everyone the ability to use external hard drives on ps4 , but i still think this uis the best way to go because now you can also get external storage and eventually have way over 6 terabytes and also several drives all because you got a massive internal storagethis drive i am buying i am buying three 4 terabyte x300 Toshiba for 3 different gaming computers as now we went to PC and will in the future only use our ps4s for Sony exclusives ( they are still tho both filled with 6 terabytes of games on both of them from before we went to PC gaming )the benefit to this is massive storage , i can not explain how awesome it is to turn on your ps4 and have 6 terabytes of games ready to play , i am in the process of doing the same but on a much larger scale to all three of my family's gaming computers with 20 terabytes of games on each PC , and i will be doing it all with these Toshiba x300 drives because the cost per performance and size is perfectthese drives are perfect i gave them 5 stars because the drives are perfect price for what your getting and they are 7200 rpm , these are really all you need for gaming on PC or consolethese drives where not shipped very well tho , i did not take a star off because they are great drives and its not Toshiba fault , its i think dells fault , as amazon says on the ship order tab that they where shipped by dell even tho i bought them from amazon( newegg sells these same drives when i bought them from newegg in the past as i have many of these same drives they where very well packaged , i purchased here on amazon because i was already buying other things this time )they where not damaged in any way , but they where packed with no bubble anything no protection in shipping just three hard drives thrown into a boxthey could of easily bounced around and got damaged , i have worked warehouses my whole life and not one place i have ever worked at would accept that type of job performance , whoever packages and picked my order obviously did not care weather the product reached its destination safelyluckily they did reach me safely undamaged , the outside box was undamaged and the contents inside the three hard drives where undamaged , but it was packages with no regard for customers merchandise , they basically put 6 inches tall of product into a 10 inch tall box with nothing to pad it nothing to make sure it stays safe during shipping , whoever picked my order did not carei have read comments on newegg and here on amazon that Toshiba warranty , like if the drive messes up and you need a replacement , they give you a choice of gift card ( value you paid i am assuming ) or replacement and usually they do not have a replacement to give you so they give you gift card , i have not had to go thru this yet as all my drives are in perfect working order , but i am mentioning it because it sounds like a huge hassle to deal with as others have said , i read a comment where the guy did not get reimbursed till like 6 weeks later , that would irritate me bad , luckily i have not had to deal with that , out of 6 drives all are working fine , i still have 2 i have not installed yet , imma install them tomorrow on my PC and my wife's PCthis the housing i used on both ps4s https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KGNXTE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1then just get a sata to esata cable https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002P6W8E8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1and biggest size x300 7200 rpm Toshiba drive you can afford i got the 6 terabyte for both ps4s https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013JPKUU2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I purchased two of these drives in March or 2018, by October they were failing. I used one as a library of my important files and the second was a backup of the first. I did not set up as raid, I simply made a copy of the drive once a month. So, while one drive was used constantly, the other was only written to eight times!!!! Yes, I wrote a lot of information, but these drives should not fail in less than one year, but both failed within one month of each other. The used one started making a loud clicking noise all the time. I imediately backed it up to the second one, and ordered replacements. The first drive failed while I waited for the replacement drives. As soon as the replacement drives showed up I copied the files from the backup drive, and then attempted to format the backup and use it for movie storage only. I copied all my movie files to it, but when it was done, only about half the files existed on the reformatted drive. I tried twice more to copy files to it, but it failed to have the files after completion yet there was no error report of files failing to transfer. So, I did a low level format (complete) but it failed to complete the formatting. I attempted it multiple times and it still failed. I contacted Toshiba support via their website. I got no response. I tried again, still no reply about my failing hard drives, so I called, I was told I would need to send photos of the drives before I could get an RMA#. They emailed me the required information form, I sent the photos and the requested information and waited, and waited, and waited, after a week of no confirmation and no RMA#, I called and spoke to someone who stated that they could see my emails, as they go to a pool of technicians, but there was no response, I started getting upset as the person on the line acted like it was no big deal, and it wasn't his job anyway, and he hung up on me. He did send me an email with the RMA numbers, so I shipped the drives off, insured through USPS. The day USPS stated that the drives had arrived, I tried looking up the RMA numbers on their website. The first one showed not received yet, and the second showed invalid. There was no second RMA number matching mine. I emailed the person who had sent the RMA numbers and asked if he could look into why the second one was coming up invalid when they hadn't even received the drives yet. I, of course, GOT NO RESPONSE. Then I get an email from the technician telling me that the drive with the invalid RMA number was received damaged. They kindly offered to destroy the drive, without replacement, and they sent a photo of the damage, (See Photo) claiming it arrived that way, on the RMA that was invalid. I replied that I had photos of the drives (Per their request) and that because of the way they had handled it so far, I had insured the drives, so if it was broken, I needed it returned as such, they did not respond. The next day I get another email from the same tech telling me that the drive was broken and did I want Toshiba to destroy it or send it back, I replied to his email, included some verbal admonishments as to his ability to read, and again, got no response. The next day I again get an email telling me the drive is damaged, and … I called and asked to speak to the idiot. He was unavailable, but would call me back. He did so and in the conversation he admitted he had received my emails, but that I had not requested that the drives be returned, but his supervisor had told him that they couldn't actually return my drive. WOW!!!! I forwarded him my prior emails, along with highlighting on the part where I requested the drives be returned, the first line of the first email I sent him, and well down in the text of the second one and I asked to speak to a supervisor, he stated they were all gone for the weekend, and unavailable. I asked him to have them call me on Monday, of course they did not. I then went online and looked up every possible email for anyone at Toshiba.com, including from their website and I forwarded the entire conversation, situation and emails I had sent and received, including one which had all my requests for returning the drive as responses from the technician, proving he had received my requests, multiple times, and he replied multiple times. Again, I heard nothing from anyone at Toshiba. I gave it a week and finally received an email that they were returning my drive. I received it today, and it is broken as they claimed, but it was not broken before I sent it and the break is fresh. Also, how does the breaking of a piece of plastic cause a drive to start making loud clicking noise, it was the main drive they claimed was broken. The drive was installed ONCE, and uninstalled ONCE. I am a programmer from the 1970's and have built hundreds of computers. There is no way I missed a broken harness guide installing it or removing it. All this over a $160 drive that should have lasted two years minimum (Actual Warranty). The fact that both failed in less than a year, and one failed after only being written to eight times, and never read from until replacement!!!! I may have simply been unlucky enough to get two bad drives at once, but, Toshiba's handling of the entire process has turned me off of ever purchasing their products again, and I have always told people to buy their products because they were reliable. NEVER AGAIN. TOSHIBA SUCKS FOR CUSTOMER SUPPORT. These drives are obviously a problem or they wouldn't have worked so hard to not have to replace another one. I have purchase at least $3000 worth of Toshiba products in 2018. I have been using their products, happily for over twenty years, and truly this is the FIRST time I have had to contact them about one of their products failing outright. But, I will not deal with their support people ever again, which means I will never purchase one of their products again, even though they have a 95% dependability history with me. I do not want to have to jump through such loops again. No more Toshiba TVs, I have 3, no more Toshiba Laptops, Bought One in October for my Great-Great-Niece. I have always bought Toshiba's for my Daughter who is now 25 and buys her own stuff. No more Toshiba hard drives, I purchased no less than five on Amazon in 2018. NEVER AGAIN!!!!!

Drive went bad after less then two years. Completed RMA process. Toshiba warranty statesRECEIVE YOUR VISA REWARD CARD.The amount of the refund on the reward card will be the lower amount of either your purchase price or the Toshiba sales price (How does Toshiba make up this amount???);I eventually received an email with a "Virtual Gift Card" for about 60% of the price I paid, and much lower than anywhere sells the HDD. I wanted a new drive, with the Virtual Gift Card - I cannot come close to buying a replacement drive; UPDATE: After asking Toshiba where I can find a replacement hard drive for the amount they refunded, Toshiba support agreed with me and increased the refund by 50% to match market value for the drive.

Hard Drives can be difficult to choose these days. Plenty of brands to pick from with a pretty broad spectrum of performance and styles.My PC already had a Samsung M2 NVMe HD (primary) and a Sandisk SSD (Secondary) which I use for dual booting windows/linux. I needed an internal HD for backup and sharing between the two platforms. Hence this Toshiba.Toshiba has a long history (especially with me) of making good quality, long lasting HDD's. Many of my previous desktops have been retired with a working HDD (which I remove) after 10 years with Toshiba drives still functioning very well (not as new but then you get that after extended use).My only complaint is that I can't seem to mount this into my drive bay in a Corsair 680C (queit) case and I can only slide it into the bay (not screw it in).

Nunca hay suficiente dinero, nunca hay suficiente espacio en tu disco duro; Originalmente mi PC de escritorio, venía con un disco WD Blue de 1TB y fue bueno para empezar. Pero para alguien que disfruta de los juegos, el espacio supone rápidamente un tema, así que cambie gradualmente mi disco de esta manera WD BLUE 1TB -> WD Green 2TB -> WD Green 3 TB -> WD Black 3TB y por ultimo este Toshiba x300 de 4 TB. (Estoy consciente que algunos de estos discos no son sugeridos para juegos)Lo anterior no es sino para poder opinar en base a que puedo comparar este disco con los que ya he tenido.Recibí mi x300 y después de pensar un rato decidí clonar mi disco actual. De inmediato note mucho ruido cuando el disco trabajaba, considerando los silenciosos que eran mis modestos WD Green y Blue. Pero incluso es más ruidoso que el WD Black que ya es algo decir aun con mi gabinete que oculta bastante bien el sonido de los componentes. Sin embargo después de un tiempo te acostumbras y generalmente pasa desapercibido.El problema -como es mi caso- de no tener los juegos en un disco o partición diferente al del sistema operativo, es justo la dificultad que supone una instalación limpia (sea que elijas respaldar o volver a descargar). Así que, lo ideal es tener tu OS en un disco de estado sólido SSD y tus juegos en otro lugar, de esa manera el desempeño sería ideal y reiniciar el equipo seria significativamente más sencillo. Pero por el momento aún no puedo hacer ese cambio y me interesaba tener algunos mb extras de almacenamiento para liberar espacio en mí ya saturado disco de 3tb.Ahora, con la instalación ya asentada y con los ajustes pertinentes. Noto que el desempeño es excepcional, sin quererme meter en datos técnicos (para evitar decir alguna imprecisión), en este momento noto una mejoría notable en la carga de Windows, en el rendimiento de aplicaciones y juegos vs mi anterior WD Black. Considero que por el costo, prestaciones y experiencia final de uso; este disco es una excelente opción.ASPECTOS POSITIVOS+Excelente relación calidad/precio+Excelente desempeño en juegos y aplicaciones+Respaldo de ToshibaASPECTOS NEUTRALESLa temperatura suele elevarse bastante (no debería de representar problema)ASPECTOS NEGATIVOS-El Ruido es bastante intenso en comparación con otras marcas

The drive is pretty fast (faster than my 8TB Seagate) but it's very loud. I haven't had a drive this loud since I my 10GB (yes that's gigabyte) Maxtor 7200rpm. It's like going back to the year 2000 for how noisy it is. Anyway, I was using it as a game drive but ended up falling back to my 3TB Toshiba (from 2014) and picking up a 256GB NVMe drive to run with StoreMI. Now I have more speed for the games I'm actively playing and none of the noise. I'm using the 8TB as my backup drive now because it's pretty quiet on the sequential reads and writes but man but as soon as you have a situation where it's doing random reads or writes it's thumping away like a jack hammer (of course I'm exaggerating).Pros:- Fast, can sustain up to 210MB/s transfer speeds.- Was great value for the money on the Amazon Prime sale- Lot's of storage spaceCons:- LOUD!!!- Short 2 Year Warranty, combined with the noise makes me question it's longevity

It works so far as intended in my NAS. Its the cheapest cmr 7200 rpm 8tb hard drive from a reputable maker I could find. But hell the sound it makes is scary. the scratch and pop and ding sound it constantly makes make me feel it might broke at any moment. Especially those glass scratching giz giz sound it makes while intense searching. My wd black and hgst hard drives never make similar high pitch noise. But SMART tells me everything is fine so I trust smart info. Just to see how long it will last.