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Synology HAT3300 6TB

A NAS drive, though Synology doesn't print a bay rating for it, so check its compatibility list for your box.

Capacity
6 TB
Recording
CMR
Speed
5,400 rpm
Warranty
3 years
Workload
180 TB/yr
Failure rate
No failure data

Recommended inRunner-up: Quietest NAS hard drive

Good for

  • A NAS in the lounge or a bedroom
  • RAID, SHR and ZFS rebuilds

Not for

  • Heavy daily writes (180 TB a year rating)

Updated 27 Oct 2026 · Method 2.0

Is the HAT3300 6 TB right for you?

Quiet beats fast for most home boxes, and at 5,400 rpm it's in the quieter class while still keeping a 1GbE link busy. Recording is CMR, the right kind for RAID and ZFS.

Watch out for

The trade-off is three years' warranty and a 180 TB a year workload rating, which is fine for a media library that mostly sits there and tight if you shift terabytes around every week (scrubs and rebuilds count towards it too).

No Backblaze failure rate for this one. They don't run enough of them, if any, for a figure worth quoting. On paper it makes 27 dB at idle and 28 dB seeking. Synology lists 3.4 W at idle and 5.3 W working, which comes to 30 kWh a year for a drive that idles around the clock. Four of them in SHR or RAID 5 give 18 TB usable, or 16.4 TB once Windows has done its binary maths on it.

Specifications

Each value links to the Synology page or datasheet it came from.

Synology HAT3300 6TB specifications
Drive type NAS source for Drive type (synology.com, opens in new tab)
Capacity 6 TB source for Capacity (global.synologydownload.com, opens in new tab)
Spindle speed 5,400 rpm source for Spindle speed (global.synologydownload.com, opens in new tab)
Recording technology CMR source for Recording technology (synology.com, opens in new tab)
Cache 256 MB source for Cache (global.synologydownload.com, opens in new tab)
Interface SATA 6Gb/s source for Interface (global.synologydownload.com, opens in new tab)
Form factor 3.5in source for Form factor (global.synologydownload.com, opens in new tab)
Max sustained transfer 202 MB/s source for Max sustained transfer (global.synologydownload.com, opens in new tab)
Workload rating 180 TB/yr source for Workload rating (global.synologydownload.com, opens in new tab)
MTBF / MTTF 1,000,000 hours source for MTBF / MTTF (global.synologydownload.com, opens in new tab)
Warranty 3 years source for Warranty (global.synologydownload.com, opens in new tab)
Power at idle 3.4 W source for Power at idle (global.synologydownload.com, opens in new tab)
Power in use 5.3 W source for Power in use (global.synologydownload.com, opens in new tab)
Noise at idle 27 dB source for Noise at idle (global.synologydownload.com, opens in new tab)
Noise when seeking 28 dB source for Noise when seeking (global.synologydownload.com, opens in new tab)

Sources: global.synologydownload.com, synology.com