Have you actually checked the drive temperature when running, the enclosures may feel only slightly warm, but the actual drives are probably getting quite hot. I have one that has not been used for a while so I thought I would fire it up. Within 20 minutes of surface scan the drive was up to 55C. I use Stablebit Scanner which automatically throttles the drive, otherwise the temerature would have gone higher. These drive units are good but the enclosure is abysmal.

​Thanks, I'll see if I can get similar card for my nl54

hA,HA lol IF YOU HAVE a cupla days to wait. I bought this from BT and started the surface scan , tooo long. Ended up creating a dummy file of 4.5Tb .(about 10 hours). drive does run warmer than WD greens but in my NAS sits at 36/37 , writing 38/39 not really any noisier than other drives.Writes at a steady 180/200Mb too.
Whoever designed the enclosure needs a kick up the arseugly as sin.
Strangely, nothing on the box (or instruction) says disassembling voids the warranty :confused:

USB 3 via a PCI Express USB 3 card (StarTech) with UASP, this allows compatible OS and hardware to communicate over USB much faster by changing the protocol, whether the Toshiba drives support it or not, I've no idea, but it is necessary when using SSD drives.

I've found this setup to be almost as fast as the internal drives, plus has the added advantage of being able to take the mirror and put it somewhere safe if I go on holiday.

The server sends me a S.M.A.R.T. status update on a daily basis, so I can keep an eye on the disks, because obviously they're not linked to the RAID hardware or alarm, so it's possible to miss a failure.

mike

Gone back to normal price !

​Hi Mike, are they utilizing the usb 3.0 or is it trsnscoding over usb 2.0? Thanks

I've got 6 of these outside of the caddy in a server array - even managed to open one caddy without breaking the seal which might be useful for a return should the worst happen. Temperatures are nothing significantly different to the other disks. Even more sensible to surface scan the disk beforehand if one is going to do that.

I found these fast spinning Toshiba's do get hot (65 Celsius which is uncomfortable to hold onto) until they are in a draft. As soon as I placed a 120mm fan in front of them (on low speed), temperatures plummeted to the same as a WD green. It's all about air flow, temperature is a secondary concern.

Nope, both are sitting in their caddies on top of the server. My server RAID card can't handle greater than 3TB drives, so was forced to go USB, but since it's relatively unimportant data I don't care the mirroring is done once a day and manually.

I've just been to check them, they're stone cold, enough that I had to check they were still running, sitting on top of them is the 8TB WD drive I bought a while ago, cold as well. I do keep my house relatively cool, but there's no way I'd describe these as running hot, maybe I have a better batch than others.

mike

Great price! Hot

But a lot of comments say it actually runs hot.

I might just take the drive out and install in my PC

​Thank you for the reply Mike.

I assume you took the drives out of the caddy?

typical.. paid £125 for 5tb yesterday at currys for the seagate.

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Been waiting for 1TB:£20 ratio. This is even better!
Thanks, OP! I just hope I won't be kicking myself on black friday.

Hotttttt !

great to use with an xbone

Have some heat..