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Synology HAT5300 12TB

A NAS drive for bigger boxes. Synology doesn't cap the bay count, and it's rated for 550 TB of reads and writes a year.

Capacity
12 TB
Recording
CMR
Speed
7,200 rpm
Warranty
5 years
Workload
550 TB/yr
Failure rate
No failure data

Good for

  • Any size of NAS
  • Busy arrays (550 TB a year)
  • RAID, SHR and ZFS rebuilds
  • 5 years' warranty

Not for

  • A desk or bedroom (7,200 rpm is the louder class)

Updated 27 Oct 2026 · Method 2.0

Who the HAT5300 12 TB is for

It earns the extra once you're filling a big box or hammering the array with Plex and backups around the clock, as the 550 TB a year rating leaves plenty of headroom. Five years of warranty is the other draw, and on a drive you'll leave spinning for most of a decade that's worth having. Recording is CMR, the right kind for RAID and ZFS.

Watch out for

Being 7,200 rpm, it's in the noisier, warmer class of drive, and you'll want it somewhere you don't sit.

There's no Backblaze data worth quoting here. Power draw is 4.25 W idle and 7.83 W working on Synology's figures, or 37 kWh a year if it spends the whole year idling. A 4-bay box full of these gives 36 TB after one drive's worth of parity.