Toshiba x300 Performace

Plex Media Server
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Hi folks,
I have the opportunity to get a Toshiba X300 Performace 8Tb disk at a very…VERY… good price to add to my PMS, but I have my doubts about having this disk running 7x24, because it’s not NAS… any opinions or owners of this disk here?

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From the Toshiba specs page

Reliability
MTTF
600,000 hours

Unrecoverable error rate
1 per 10¹⁴ bits read

Compared to a WD Red Pro

Reliability/Data Integrity
Load/unload cycles 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000
Non-recoverable errors per bits read <10 in 10^14 <10 in 10^14
<10 in 10^14 <10 in 10^14 <10 in 10^14
MTBF (hours) 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000
Workload Rate (TB/year) 300 300 300 300 300
Limited warranty (years) 5 5

Compared to Enterprise drive

Reliability
Error rate (non-recoverable, bits read) 1 in 10^15 ←
Load/Unload cycles (at 40ºC) 600,000 ←
Availability (hrs/day x days/wk) 24x7 ←
MTBF
 (M hours) 2.5 ←
Annualized Failure Rate
 (AFR) 0.35% ←
Warranty (yrs) 5

Personally, I opted for the UltraStar HUH721212ALE604 (other capacities available)

  1. Longer MTBF (2.5M hours)
  2. Lower single bit read failure (1 / 10^15 )

Enterprise drives are rated to take a pounding where the Desktop/Workstation Toshiba is not.

If you keep the Toshiba properly cooled (remember, drives don’t like getting overheated), and at a constant (on) temperature with OS on , it’ll be the most stable it can be.

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