Toshiba Enterprise MG Series 3 5 16TB SATA 3

Quiet and lots of space. Got it to replace the disk in a Synology DS118 RAID. Easily installed with no compatibility issues. Read more

Toshiba MG08ACA16TE 16TB , The drive was ordered on Nov. 1, and was delivered on the 4th. Great, fast delivery. It was packaged very well, box within a heavy duty box, with great padding. On attaching the drive to my computer, it did not see it, after checking cables and such, I open control panel went to - Administrative Tools - Create and format hard disk. It needed to be formatted and given a disk letter, I did this. It did not show after this, I found out I needed to do the disk Letter again. Once the disk letter was given the drive showed up. It was 14.5 TB - Good enough, for some reason a lot of these drives fall short of the stated capacity. I trust Toshiba drives, great buy.--- Jan. 25, 2023, sorry to say the drive just stop working, my computer just does not see it. I did try basic trouble shooting, but I know one can get bogged down for month trying to figure these things out. Calling it a day and ordering another, did not bother to try and return it. Read more

I barely ran it for 3 days before starting having issues. The problem with this (16TB) drive is it crashes when dealing with many smaller files. It has no issues with moving larger video files. I can transfer those around all day, many terabytes at a time without a problem. But when I move around a few thousand smaller sub 10mb files, it works for about 10 seconds, then makes a brief squealing sound, and just crashes. Its removed from the windows device list and then is found again about 10 seconds later. If I reinitiate the transfer of small files, it just crashes again. So something is up. Not sure if its systemic to the design of these drive (cant handle quick read/writes) or if its just a defective drive but I cannot afford the time to diagnose this issue. Oh one last note. This drive gets very hot. Even when left out on the table exposed, it gets very hot. Much hotter than all my other drives which are actually inside the computer case. Read more

In a world going to SSD drives, or NVME, this may seem old technology. But 16 Terabytes is a LOT of storage. I used this to make full backups of all the computers in the family. Then I just put this one drive in the save. I was able to use with a SATA to USB adapter, one that had it's own power supply. Then ran it from the USB port external. It's fast enough, not SSD but I don't care when making backups. You can't buy this much storage for a reasonable price any other way. And I trust Toshiba. It was obviously brand new, and plugging it in, it had to be initialized, which is good, I'm really the first. Read more

TLDR: Helium-filled drives, smooth installation, good initial performance. 🌐💽⏳ I recently opted for these helium-filled drives and so far, they've been a smooth sail at installation. Only time can truly tell how they hold up, but my initial impressions are positive. I plan to update this review if any issues arise. These drives are now part of my Netgear network attached storage setup. A heads-up for those using them similarly: syncing the second 16TB drive with the first can take a few days. Don't panic – it's all part of the process. Also, something to keep in mind, the actual usable storage space is about 14.5 TB, not the full 16 TB as labeled. This isn't unusual, but it's worth noting for those new to such storage solutions. Read more

I chose Platinum Micro as the seller after contacting them with some questions. I got 2 and then ordered 2 more later. All serial numbers showed up with 4.5+ years of warranty still left as shown on Toshiba's Check Warranty site. One drive started having problems down the line and Toshiba RMAed it easily with a brand new drive. Would highly recommend! Just make sure you pick the seller carefully as it looks like a lot of people got drives from other sellers without warranty through Toshiba and some got refurbished ones. I don't know why people don't contact the sellers first since it's not sold directly through the manufacturer on here. They are a little noisy, but that's the way all enterprise drives are. Read more

Performance seems to be comparable to or maybe a little bit slower than other drives that I have. The biggest issue I have with this drive is the noise. It is normally acceptable when compared to my other drives but there are times it sounds like a nail on a chalkboard. It actually startles me when I am in deep concentration working on something. It is sitting on my desktop in an external enclosure but I have 11 other drives (a mix of Toshiba and Seagate) and none of them come even close to the noise this drive occasionally makes. It is so bad that I have now replaced it with another Seagate. I don't know if this noise is a prelude to failure or not but definitely would NOT recommend this drive. Read more

These are helium filled drives. Works fine on install; only time will tell if these drives last. I will come back if I get any failures. I've installed them in Netgear network attached storage devices. It takes several days for the second 16TB drive to synch with the first one, so don't worry that anything's wrong. Oh, and you only get 14.5 TB of usable storage on a 16 TB labeled drive. This is normal. Read more