Toshiba’s 3.5-inch N300 NAS Hard Drive offers unprecedented reliability for NAS and other high-performance storage systems. It is optimized to meet the reliability, endurance, performance and scalability requirements of 24-hour x 7-day high-capacity storage for personal, home office and small business use.
Use for:
• Network Attached Storage (NAS)
• Desktop RAID and servers
• Multimedia server storage
• Private cloud storage
• Small business server and storage
Designed for NAS
Through its contact with NAS manufacturers, Toshiba recognizes the need for high-reliability disks in support of modern data storage and retrieval demands including streaming, backup and archiving. The drive, which can support multi-RAID systems with up to 8 hard disk drives, allows large volumes of data to be reliably stored and accessed by multiple clients 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Integrated RV Sensors
Regular hard disk drives without RV sensors can affect the performance of a multi-bay NAS System by generating 'knock-on' vibration. N300 drives ensure high reliability by minimising vibration effects through their advanced control and sensing technology. Multiple sensors detect the slightest shock and built-in RV sensors also compensate for rotational vibration - eliminating the possibility of 'knock-on' vibration in multi-bay NAS configuration systems.
Reliable always-on operations
NAS systems in small businesses or creative environments often need to be accessed by several users, at different locations, simultaneously. Therefore today's NAS drives must deliver high data transfer rates and simultaneous upload and download 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Offering high reliability and scalability, N300 drives achieve a max. 180 TB/year workload factor, up to 3 times more than convenient desktop hard drives.
High durabillity and heat
Use of high-endurance components is one of the reasons that the N300 series offers better durability than other conventional hard disk drives. At the same time, automatic adjustment of seek speed to reduce heat during high-temperature operation further improves endurance in demanding situations.
Multi-drive environment
High performance and fast read speed is made possible under high data access loads from multiple users thanks to 512, 256 or 128 MB data buffer. This makes the drive suitable for small businesses and creative professionals looking for solutions to handle high data volumes using multi-RAID NAS environments.
Optimises cache allocation
Toshiba’s Dynamic Cache Technology, a self-contained cache algorithm with on-board buffer management, optimizes how the cache is allocated during read/write to provide the high-level performance demanded by real-time domains.
Basic Specifications
Form factor: 3.5-inch
Interface: SATA 6.0 Gbit/s
Drive bays supported: 1 to 8
Rotational Vibration (RV) Sensors: yes
Advanced Format (AF): yes
RoHS compatible: yes
Halogen Free: Yes
Shock Sensor: yes
Performance
Rotational speed: 7,200 rpm
Buffer size: 256 MB
Data transfer speed: 239 MB/s Typ
Average latency: 4.17 ms
Native Command Queing (NCQ):supported
Reliability
Workloads: 180 TB/year
MTTF: 1,000,000 hours
Unrecoverable error rate: 1 per 10E bits read
24/7 operation: yes
Limited warranty: 3 years
