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Toshiba N300 14TB

A drive for the smaller home NAS. Toshiba rates it for boxes of up to 8 bays and no bigger.

Capacity
14 TB
Recording
CMR
Speed
7,200 rpm
Warranty
3 years
Workload
180 TB/yr
Rated for
Up to 8 bays
Failure rate
No failure data

Good for

  • A 2- to 8-bay NAS in a cupboard
  • RAID, SHR and ZFS rebuilds

Not for

  • Boxes with more than 8 bays
  • A desk or bedroom (7,200 rpm is the louder class)
  • Heavy daily writes (180 TB a year rating)

Updated 27 Oct 2026 · Method 2.0

Is the N300 14 TB right for you?

Speed over silence, basically. At 7,200 rpm it's quicker than the 5,400 rpm crowd, and it'll suit a small box that lives out of earshot. It's CMR, which is what you want anywhere near a RAID or ZFS rebuild.

Watch out for

Bigger box than that? Look at a pro or data-centre line instead. You get three years' cover and a 180 TB a year workload rating, both on the light side if the pool's busy every day.

No Backblaze failure rate for this one. They don't run enough of them, if any, for a figure worth quoting. Power draw is 3.77 W idle and 7.38 W working on Toshiba's figures, or 33 kWh a year if it spends the whole year idling. Four of them in SHR or RAID 5 give 42 TB usable, or 38.2 TB once Windows has done its binary maths on it.

Specifications

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

Toshiba N300 14TB specifications
Drive type NAS source for Drive type (toshiba-storage.com, opens in new tab)
Capacity 14 TB source for Capacity (toshiba-storage.com, opens in new tab)
Spindle speed 7,200 rpm source for Spindle speed (toshiba-storage.com, opens in new tab)
Recording technology CMR source for Recording technology (toshiba-storage.com, opens in new tab)
Cache 512 MB source for Cache (toshiba-storage.com, opens in new tab)
Interface SATA 6Gb/s source for Interface (toshiba-storage.com, opens in new tab)
Form factor 3.5in source for Form factor (toshiba-storage.com, opens in new tab)
Max sustained transfer 281 MB/s source for Max sustained transfer (toshiba.semicon-storage.com, opens in new tab)
Workload rating 180 TB/yr source for Workload rating (toshiba-storage.com, opens in new tab)
MTBF / MTTF 1,200,000 hours source for MTBF / MTTF (toshiba-storage.com, opens in new tab)
Rated for NAS bays (max) 8 bays source for Rated for NAS bays (max) (toshiba-storage.com, opens in new tab)
Warranty 3 years source for Warranty (toshiba-storage.com, opens in new tab)
Power at idle 3.77 W source for Power at idle (toshiba-storage.com, opens in new tab)
Power in use 7.38 W source for Power in use (toshiba-storage.com, opens in new tab)
Noise at idle 20 dB source for Noise at idle (toshiba-storage.com, opens in new tab)

Sources: toshiba-storage.com, toshiba.semicon-storage.com