Toshiba MG Series Enterprise 14TB 3.5’’ SATA 6Gbit/s Internal HDD 7200RPM 550TB/year 24/7 Operation. MG07ACA14TE

Reorganizing my backup system, and trying to save space in my safe, I'm using this as a backup drive for 4 other drives which reside in a Mac Pro (Early 2009) tower. I popped it into my Startech "toaster"-style SATA hard drive holder. It spun up and then I got a screen dialog saying the disk could not be read and needed to be formatted (this is normal with a new drive on a Mac). I used Disk Utility to first erase the disk and then to create 4 partitions of different sizes for the various drives I wanted backed up: an SSD boot drive plus 3 data drives which vary in size from 2 to 8 terabytes. I had no problems formatting, partitioning, or copying data to this drive in a few hours of use so far. At this writing this was the cheapest 14tb drive I could find at 529 bucks. I can't comment on its speed as this isn't an issue in my use as I will only use it for backups at night, but I will report here again if I have any problems with this drive. When received it was well-packed in a nice thick protective bubble-bag, inside a cardboard box, which inspires confidence that these drives will survive shipment unlike some I have received. I should add however that my drive has a different label than the one shown in the listing. Mine is a generic white label which does say "Toshiba" and "14TB" among other data on it.

I purchased this drive to use in my high end desktop rig (at home) mainly to store raw files of time lapse shots. The drive came in an anti-static bag inside a form-fitting airbag (see pic), which itself was snug inside the box, and is as protective as one can get in shipping delicate hard drives. After opening I immediately started a slew of stress tests before commissioning the drive in my computer. I first performed a 24 hour continuous random seek test (see pic) which showed an average seek time of 12 ms and no abnormal behavior. Temperature variations are within normal range, and only due to changes in day and night ambient temperatures (~85 F ambient temperature at the hottest). Next I performed 3 pairs of write+read tests on the drive where the data was written and read consecutively. This took 115 hours to complete (see last 3 pics, I left it running while on a weekend trip out of town) and everything passed with no errors. Again temperature variations were due to day/night time ambient temps, but overall stayed well below dangerous levels. Max read and write rates were ~265 MB/s (using the convention 1 MB = 1000 KB, not Windows which is 1 MB = 1024 KB) using Crystal Disk Mark. Noise-wise it is actually pretty quiet relatively speaking, about on par with my WD Black drives.In conclusion I'm quite pleased with it, will update if anything changes.

I bought 6 of these 6TB Toshiba drives in March 2022 -- I did not have a chance to install these into my server until after the 30 day return policy expired, however after checking the drives I learned that 2 were DOA and upon closer inspection I see that all of my drives have a manufacturer date listed in 2016.The description on Amazon says that they are new and come with a 5 year warranty from Toshiba... that's only half correct, they do come with a 5 year warranty from Toshiba... but that warranty has already expired by the time you get your product because they're USED drives.This is not as described on the listing-- they do not say they are remanufactured and in fact Q&A says they are new drives with a 5 year warranty from the factory. I was misled into purchasing these drives by false advertising. Toshiba will not service the warranty, Amazon tells me that the reseller "MD TECH" is the warranty provider in this case and they will not allow me to return the drives as I am outside the 30 day return policy.Stay away from these drives-- and shame on you Amazon for falsely advertising these products as new with no disclaimer that they are remanufactured and that the 5 year warranty provided is not actually coming from Toshiba.

Very slow write speed, been downloading 50gb for over 8 hours now. My other PC has downloaded the same 100 gb file with no issues in a few mins. My connection is not an issue.

One of my laptops was reaching its storage limit. Luckily, it had an empty bay that would fit a 2.5" 7mm SATA drive. I got this one and it worked perfectly. Easy to install. Perfect.

REALLY take time and consider noise levels for use in home NAS, or in any scenario other than either for use in already loud enterprise rooms, or occasional use backups, where loud noise for a few minutes isn't a problem. Can't knock it for being loud, because it was sort of my own fault for ignoring reviews (the word enterprise should have been a giveaway). Bought 5 of the 14TB versions for my synology. Previously was using 10x 3TB WD red plus and I can't hear those run. I can here these operating IN THE NEXT ROOM. I'd give my own intelligence 2 stars.In the future, I will probably not purchase any enterprise drives for my home NAS and I'll probably stick to NAS drives.

I'm organizing my multimedia collection. I never dreamed how much space this project would take. I filled the first 14TB hard drive and moved some more stuff onto smaller hard drives.Now it's time to move more files onto a second 14TB hard drive.

Used drives. Not new. Used. Don't buy if you want new.