Toshiba X300 4TB Storage

Toshiba X300 4TB

Brand
Toshiba
Model
X300 4TB
$123–$136estimated range · from catalog price Jun 21, 2026

Toshiba X300 4TB (HDWR440XZSTA) 7200 RPM CMR 3.5-inch SATA HDD with 256MB cache for affordable game libraries and mass storage; still current.

Storage performance rankTop 63% of storage drives
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Capacity4 TB
TypeHDD
InterfaceSATA
Read speed256 MB/s
Form factor3.5
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Product overview

Toshiba’s X300 performance HDD line debuted in 2015; the 4TB HDWR440XZSTA is a later refresh in the X300 family. It’s a 3.5-inch SATA 6 Gbit/s desktop drive using Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR), spinning at 7200 RPM with a 256 MB cache. Market positioning: budget tier for storage—built to offer large, inexpensive capacity with snappier HDD‑class response for desktops. Best used as a game library or general mass storage; it can double as a basic video‑editing scratch volume for proxies and large assets, but it isn’t a boot drive. The model remains available (not discontinued).

Best for
  • game library
  • mass storage
  • budget upgrade
Official product specifications

Specifications

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Current modelCatalog models
Capacity4 TB
Higher than 60% of storage drives
Read speed256 MB/s
Higher than 32% of storage drives
Capacity
4 TB
Type
HDD
Form factor
3.5
Hardware Interface
SATA III 6 Gb/s
Data Transfer Rate
600 MB
Interface
SATA
Read speed
256 MB/s
Tdp
4 W
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