Did it get delivered?

Good luck with that. I'm afraid you may get the same run around I'm getting about no stock, and having to spot it back in stock to re-order. First time I've experienced such a shoddy buying experience from Amazon, guess I've been lucky previously.

Hi, I'm getting the run around from Amazon re my order, they now say it was damaged and returned, how convenient. I'd appreciate a heads up when you actually ordered yours, if it was on back order and lastly if you get it delivered. Thanks. Any others still getting emails re this content if you have backorders still pending or actually cancelled.

Estimated arrival date: February 23 2017 - March 04 2017

mine arrived yesterday.

Overkill for a NAS really. If you're using it for backup it's not really required. If you're accessing media. Again that speed of the drive isn't required

Better off with Reds as slower and cooler, less power consumption.

Unfortunately again, Brexit. I had a Toshiba 5TB X300 for this price way back in June last year. More room, same sort of performance. Slightly noisy but no big deal perfect as a storage drive.

Spinning rust values shot up after the Thailand floods and it gave SSD a foot in the door. SSD has taken over the small drive market now, many new PCs and laptops come with no HDD at all. So large HDD is the only market they have left and they aren't going to lower margins on those in a hurry.

I built a 6 x 3TB NAS around three years ago and am equally amazed at how prices haven't fallen. Would actually cost the same to build the same NAS today, historically I've bought a new NAS every 3 years which has been the same cost but has double the storage. Today, the same money will buy me fewer drives.

From a price per TB perspective, the better values are in the 6TB/8TB drive market - especially if you're putting into RAID5. 10TB drives are already out there, so 3TB/4TB is commanding a premium in the replacement drive market - i.e. people like me whose drives are reaching end of life and need to be replaced with the same size.

Unfortunately SSD and HDD don't compete.

They are meant for very different tasks.

If anything the dual existence of why the prices have stayed high. That and the continuing clawback of costs after the tsunami

Whilst thankfully I am not an expert on retrieving data after drive failures, although I have had one or two over the years, I would very much like to know how Toshiba guarantee successful data recovery than under any failure circumstance as implied by your comment, as surely this ability would mean Toshiba would corner the HD storage market!

The closest a WD Drive has come to failing for me is getting reports of bad sectors last night on a WD Green drive that had a power on time of nearly 5 years and I have purchased nothing but WD Drives.

If you were smart then you wouldn't need to recover data from a failed drive, I had a backup 2TB Green and just swapped them over last night.

Dont think WD are that bad, had lots in my time with only a couple of failures but that could have been the age of the drive.

Why are Toshiba's easier to retrieve the data from?

If reliability is what you want most, look at HGST (Hitachi) for HDD and try to avoid 2-3tb drives of any brand as they have the worst failure rate.

I'd recommend hgst drives

How does the brand affect how you can recover your data...?

I tend to like WD drives (got two Purples in my NVR for CCTV recordings, several Reds in my home server and various Greens and Blues) as their customer support is amazing.

My last drive to fail was a 6TB Green and they, due to certain conditions applying, even replaced it without needing the old drive back.

Their typical advanced replacement policy has been excellent when I have used it in the past.

The only thing that I had done was to change the head parking for their Green drives.

Putting aside the brand if you have invested in ensuring regular backups are done, some of mine are even maintained "off-site," then a drive failure should only be an inconvenience rather than a disaster.

Good price for a good drive, heat added.

They only debit your card when they actually send it to you.

You ordered 6! Classy. So its screw everyone else eh? (Unless I've misunderstood).

Depends what kind of drive you bought and prices for drives aren't as low as they should be

I have read that black disks run louder, hotter and use more power than blue. So you're right it might be overkill for some people.