TOSHIBA X300 REVIEW: 14 TB OF SPACE FOR PROFESSIONALS AND GAMERS
The need for space to save your data increases every year. Just think of how many images and how many videos we accumulate on our smartphones, or the increasing size of games , not to mention the professionals, who often have to deal with large files. SSDs have revolutionized the way we use the PC, making everything much faster than mechanical solutions, but speed has a price and that price is less space available. hollyhealthfitness
512GB and 1TB SSDs have reached affordable prices, but if
you go beyon d this threshold, costs increase exponentially, which is why
mechanical hard drives are still around.. Less speed but much more space
available, a compromise necessary to offer many TB in a single memory. Toshiba
X300 looks exactly in this direction, making 14 TB available to save everything
you want at a recommended price of € 529.00.
Technical characteristics and performances
Toshiba X300 is a 3.5 "7200 rpm mechanical hard drive
with SATA III interface. The version we tested is 14 TB in total, but models
from 4 up to 16 TB are available, which differ not only in size but also for
some characteristics. For example, the 12, 14 and 16 TB variants use helium
inside them , which, having a lower molecular density than air, reduces
friction, with a consequent reduction in consumption and noise. smaller cuts
the 12 and 14 Tb variants offer a buffer of 256 MB, compared to the 128 MB of
the others; the only one to further differentiate itself is the 16 TB one,
which has a 512 MB buffer. Toshiba ensures the functioning of this disk for 600,000
hours .
The sales pack is very basic, in the package there is only
the hard disk, well protected by a plastic casing, and the instruction manual.
But what can such a disc be useful for? The types of use for
a 14 TB hard disk are varied, ranging from workstations to home multimedia
servers, obviously passing through gaming.
The new generation consoles are going in another direction
with faster memories at the expense of available space. 1 TB may seem like a
lot but the size of the games is growing, while the Italian internet lines are
not always up to par: the result is that today we often have huge but not
immediately accessible game libraries.
With 14 TB available you can install dozens of games without
problems, a choice that, according to your needs, can be considered sensible,
even at the expense of longer loading times.
In fact, on the performance front this Toshiba X300 aligns
itself with other similar products, after all, mechanical hard drives have
limits that cannot be overcome. We are therefore faced with a memory that
travels around 250 MB / s in sequential read and write, far from the
performance of a SATA III SSD and even more different from that of NVMe M.2
memories.
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