Toshiba P300/3TB vs PH3300U-1I72?

[Mike64]

Does anyone know anything about Toshiba's most recently released consumer P300-series 3 GB drives, being sold in the retail package as part # HDWD130XZSTA (eg, Newegg item N82E16822149630)? Without digging through more than the first dozen or so of many pages of irrelevant search results (mostly product listings that include the words "review" or "reviews" but don't actually have any yet), I was only able to find one review on the web and it was of no use, since that reviewer's drive was DOA.

All I've really been able to dig up is that, compared to their PH3300U-1I72 (DT01ACA300) (Newegg item N82E16822149396) kit, they've cut the warranty down to 2 years from 3 years. Basically, I'm wondering if there's any sort of design improvement(?) that could possibly outweigh going with an already market-tested product that has a longer warranty, to boot.

 

[Soulkeeper]

The X300 is a rebrand of the higher end 5/6TB ACA drives (I can't find any reviews, but this appears to be the case).
All the other ones are a further segmentation of their offerings. Looking at the pictures of the ones you posted, the P300 seems to have the same pcb as their 3TB and lower drives (rebrand). Maybe they updated the firmware, prolly nothing else.
http://www.storagereview.com/toshiba_announces_new_highperformance_hdds

 

[Mike64]

The X300 is a rebrand of the higher end 5/6TB ACA drives (I can't find any reviews, but this appears to be the case).
All the other ones are a further segmentation of their offerings. Looking at the pictures of the ones you posted, the P300 seems to have the same pcb as their 3TB and lower drives (rebrand). Maybe they updated the firmware, prolly nothing else.
http://www.storagereview.com/toshiba_announces_new_highperformance_hdds

Thanks for the info. Looking more closely at the spec sheet for the earlier DTA01ACxxx series and what detailed specs I could find for the P300s, I see they mention a few "features", some, but certainly not all, of which may be unique to the latter series. But even the ones that aren't mentioned in the DCT01ACxxx's specs, or that haven't apparently been incorporated into all Toshiba drives since the early-mid 2000s, don't seem to me worth giving up the older version's proven track record or additional year's warranty...