Review Toshiba X300 Pro 12TB and 20TB HDD review: Much better than its non-Pro siblings

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The Toshiba X300 Pro is the much-better, higher capacity sibling of the X300 line. It’s not specialized for NAS like the N300 Pro and instead provides lots of storage for desktops and workstations, with a good warranty and satisfactory performance.

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[Sleepy_Hollowed]

Wow, these are literally better in every way to the lower price ones except in price alone.

They’re going in my list and thanks for the great review!

 

[atomicWAR]

Honestly I think it is tough to compete, atm at least, with Seagate Exos x20 drives at higher capacities. I frequently see their 20TB drives at or below the cost of other solutions, even those with far less capacity (ie seen 20TB drives cheaper than 12TB drives). I have picked up 9 this year alone when they hit the 269.99 price tag on newegg (typically 309.99 though msrp is 699.99). But I am always happy to see more high capacity drives hit the market. I can't wait for 50TB drives...

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Honestly I think it is tough to compete, atm at least, with Seagate Exos x20 drives at higher capacities. I frequently see their 20TB drives at or below the cost of other solutions, even those with far less capacity (ie seen 20TB drives cheaper than 12TB drives). I have picked up 9 this year alone when they hit the 269.99 price tag on newegg (typically 309.99 though msrp is 699.99). But I am always happy to see more high capacity drives hit the market. I can't wait for 50TB drives...

I think we should start seeing 28/30 TB drives in 2024. Or at least I hope so! Not that I really need that much storage personally. I do have quite the collection of tested HDDs and SSDs sitting in my office now, though! LOL

 

[mdd1963]

Only just now ordered a trio of 10 TB WD Red Plus drives, so will either do a Mirror plus one more copy (totaling 20 TB w/ 3 drives), or perhaps a striped array through Storage Spaces as long as adjust the cluster size from 4k up to something higher than the classic striped array Storage Spaces throughput of a staggering 32 MB/sec...! (If unsuccessful in getting stripe speeds up to something semi-normal for a trio of striped drives, realizing that writes will take a hit over reads of course due to parity, then I'll revert to just a mirror, with an additional copy, which oddly enough can also be done in Storage Spaces as well with adding another drive to a mirror, where apparently SS simply staggers it's 2 copies of files semi-evenly to balance the storage amongst the 3 drives. Will tinker with read/write results from/to un-cached file transfers to see which is best.

(The article was correct, the price on 20 TB Pro X300 looked nice! Might pick one of those up too, but, I expect the trio of 30 TB raw to last me a while, considering how long a smattering of external USB-connected drives have lasted, with the largest being a 3 TB Toshiba, and it being only some 30% full! I have anything truly important also backed up to multiple free cloud accounts.)

Sidenote: any else trying TerraBox? Free 1 TB? Seems to work fine the 3 weeks I have been tinkering with it! 1 TB for free users sure beats most classic/well established competitors with their paltry 5, 10, 30 GB free storage limits, etc...)