Hard Drive Sounds: Toshiba N300 HDWG440

The N300 series of hard drives from Toshiba started out as lower bins of the MG04 enterprise series, with capacities going up to 6 TB. Over time, the N300 lineup would use newer platforms like MG06 and, in this drive's case, MG08-D, to provide higher capacities as well as continuing to provide lower capacities using higher platter densities than before. With 3 year warranties, you'd expect these to be on the same level as IronWolf and WD Red Plus...except that's actually not quite true.

See, the difference between N300 and Seagate/WD's NAS drives is that the latter use consumer-grade platforms, higher binning, and NAS-oriented firmware. In the N300's case however, it uses an enterprise-grade platform while being a lower bin; it also still has NAS-oriented firmware. This actually means it can potentially be more reliable than its consumer-grade brethren (not to mention its flagship spindle speed of 7200 RPM), which probably also explains why in the U.S. they are more expensive than Seagate/WD NAS drives.

The future is looking bright for the N300 series. With the AI bubble drastically increasing hard drive demand, Toshiba can continue to make reliable drives while earning quite a bit of profit, even with the lowest enterprise bins.

Timestamps:

0:00 Spinning up
0:22 Short self-test
2:14 Going to ATA sleep
2:22 Waking up (from ATA sleep)
2:36 Running HDMotion
3:47 Performing HD Tune Pro tests
4:21 Read benchmark (GNOME Disks)
4:44 Creating an EXT4 partition
4:58 Performing the Bonnie++ benchmark
6:49 Spinning down

For more of these extended videos, check out this playlist:    • Extended HDD Sounds  

Alternatively, there is also my playlist of YouTube Shorts concerning the drives' spin-up and spin-down sounds:    • HDD Collection  

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