That doesn’t inspire confidence in the more technical aspects of the drive.Īccording to CrystalDiskMark’s sequential speed test, the Q300 can read data at 284.2 megabytes per second and write it at 247.3 megabytes per second. Inside the box you’ll find… well, not much, actually.Even so, with widely-available competition, it’s as well to nail down the exact performance - Toshiba’s packaging and online product listings don’t mention specific speeds beyond the 6Gbps speed of the SATA III standard itself. It’s not exactly a necessary part of product design, since this drive is intended to be installed in a desktop or laptop and only gamers with see-through cases and excessive SSD lighting will actually see it on a daily basis, but other manufacturers at least manage a tiny bit of ornamentation. The metal casing is grey and the product label is black and white, pretty much exactly what you’d expect. If the Q300 was a car, it would be a Honda Civic: serviceable but not eye-catching. The Q300 is also available in capacities of 120GB, 240GB, and 960GB. Other than that, you get nothing there’s no SATA cable included in the box, and the free Toshiba software needs to be downloaded from the web.
The spacer is useful if you need to fit the drive into a standard 2.5-inch drive bay or enclosure – the Q300 has a height of 7mm, used in some of the more compact laptop designs, but you may need the spacer for desktop or portable installations to bring the combined height up to 9.5mm. Aside from the packing materials, you get a user guide, warranty information, and a rectangular plastic spacer. Inside the box you’ll find… well, not much, actually. The drive uses a SATA III interface for power and data with a maximum transfer rate of 6 gigabits per second. The Q300 is the lower-end of Toshiba’s current offerings, which comes with a three-bit per cell design that’s cheaper and denser than the Q300 Pro series, but also has a shorter life expectancy.
The Toshiba Q300 is perfectly serviceable, but it isn’t competitive with alternatives from Samsung, Crucial, PNY, and others.That’s decent bang for your buck in terms of storage at about two and a half gigabytes to the dollar.
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