By Matt Hanson
The Toshiba N300 hard drive is a storage device that’s been specifically built for NAS (network attached storage) devices which run constantly, often providing storage to large files from a number of networked PCs.
This means that while it eschews the bells and whistles of standard hard drives, such as super-fast speeds, it instead focuses on reliability. This is a drive that has been designed to be installed in servers that remain active every hour of every day.
These devices usually store incredibly important data – or backups of that incredibly important data – so the drive they house needs to be incredibly dependable. While Toshiba is sometimes better known for its fancy electronic devices, it also has a very good reputation for enterprise products such as hard drives
The Toshiba N300 series comes in three high capacities: 4TB (the one we’ve reviewed here), 6TB and 8TB. The 4TB version costs £120 (around $160, AU$200), while the 6TB version will set you back £200 (around $260, AU$350), and the 8TB version costs £250 (around $320, AU$440).
This is slightly more expensive than standard hard drives for day-to-day computing, but it’s slightly less expensive than the WD Red 8TB, which costs £300 …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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