Product Comparison: Toshiba S300 vs Toshiba X300
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General Specifications
Brand
Toshiba
Toshiba
Model
S300
X300
Origin
Philippines
Philippines
About the Product
Toshiba’s 3.5-inch S300 Surveillance Hard Drive is designed and tested for 24/7 reliable surveillance, built for speed, capacity, and longer content retention. Capture and analyse every frame from up to 64 video cameras.
Make sure your desktop is powered by the Toshiba X300 Series 3.5” desktop internal hard drive and explore a whole new world of awesome speed and performance. Offering massive storage of up to 6TB, plus a wealth of advanced data protection features built in.
Key Specs
Storage Drive Type
HDD
HDD
Cache
256 MB
128 MB
Capacity
6 TB
4 TB
Rotational Speed
7200 RPM
7200 RPM
What customers say about "Key Specs"
Toshiba S300 6TB Surveillance 3.5” Internal Hard Drive
- Can store many months worth of motion activated recordings with this huge capacity drive.
- Great HDD with pretty high capacity. Bit noise, but still recommend.
- The increase cache of 256mb may be better from my old HDD.
- I am pretty happy 6 TB drive and little vibration that occurs.
- The drive never fell in performance for the video recording side or the speed of transfer.
Toshiba X300 6TB Performance Desktop and Gaming Hard Drive
- Was pleased with capacity and size of drive.
- While the storage capacity is great, and reliability has been fine (so far).
- Great value for the storage capacity. The performance is great!
- Sufficient storage capacity, easy to install.
- It's what i want, rather nice hard drive.
Size & Weight
Height
1.03 in.
1.03 in.
Depth
5.79 in.
5.79 in.
Width
4 in.
5.79 in.
Weight
1.7 lbs.
1.7 lbs.
Toshiba S300
Toshiba X300
Toshiba S300
Toshiba X300
Toshiba S300
Toshiba X300
Features
Form factor
3.5 in.
3.5 in.
Transfer Rate
241 MB/s
89.5 MB/s
Interfaces
SATA
SATA
OS Compatibility
Windows
Windows
Extras
Supports up to 64 video cameras, High reliability and enhanced real-time performance, Toshiba Dynamic Cache Technology, Toshiba Stable Platter Technology
Toshiba Dynamic Cache Technology, Toshiba Stable Platter Technology, Ramp loading and drive stabilization technologies, Tunnel Magneto Resistive recording head technology
What customers say about "Features"
Toshiba S300 6TB Surveillance 3.5” Internal Hard Drive
- It is super easy to install, it works, makes no noise that I can hear.
- I put this into a RAID-1 mirroring enclosure with a Seagate NAS drive. The combination appears to be working fine with no problems.
- Overall, I'm pleased with the lack of noise from this drive.
- If you are using a Windows and Linux environment you won't have any issues with the initial setup in either environment.
- It is noisy. Not as much as the 4Tb was, but nonetheless noisy. I can hear it from 15 ft away.
Toshiba X300 6TB Performance Desktop and Gaming Hard Drive
- The drive was very easy to install, and it makes NO noise; which is good as it's installed into a media/entertainment system.
- It is as fast as any disk-based hard drive would be, with a 7200 RPM speed and a 128 MB cache.
- It was very easy to set up and format, like any other brand new hard drive.
- With a spindle speed of 7200 it's transfer rate is very fast.
- It is very noisy when working. Also, its a hot one.
Power
Wattage
7.88 Watts
11.3 Watts
Warranty / Certifications
Manufacturer Warranty
3 year(s)
2 year(s)
Certifications
EAC, CE, ICC, RoHS
CE, ICC, EAC, RoHS
Other Information
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