Legit Toshiba Drive?

[Astrophel]

Bought a Toshiba X300 PRO 4TB off Facebook marketplace for 100 CAD. Seller was responsive and answering my questions and even let me ship it and pay with paypal. These drives he says comes from when he worked at Toshiba to see the packaging to see if it was compliant for Canada he said he got some of the samples and never used them. He has a picture of Millennium Micro's event. (Providing below) I'm having a hard time figuring out if this drive is actually an X300 or a rip off old N300. When you run the model numbers it comes back as an n300 online if you look it up. All the surface testing I could do came back clean SMART data looks like it was a new drive 0 hours and what not but that can be reset but I'm not so sure. I thought about seeing how much cache was there because that would give it away since the original N300's had 128 and this line has 256 but couldn't find a tool to check that. I own two 6TB N300's that I got off amazon which are legit I noticed the a slight difference in packaging as there wasn't any documentation but could of been because of it being sampled? I can't find anything on the Toshiba site ether about looking it up.

X300:

Model number: TOSHIBA HDWR440UZSVB (Sometimes other software just said HDWR440U)

Serial: 22N0A02YF11J

Firmware: 0101

 

My legit N300's

Model Number: TOSHIBA HDWG460

Serial: 53K0A033FR1H

Firmware:0601

[Astrophel]

Picture of my legit N300.

[Ryker Robb]

10 hours ago, Astrophel said:

I'm having a hard time figuring out if this drive is actually an X300 or a rip off old N300. When you run the model numbers it comes back as an n300 online if you look it up.

Which model number? The serial does match up with the HDWR440UZSVB model number on the drive:

And that model number is in fact, an x300 pro: toshiba_x300pro-salessheet_english-web.pdf

[Ryker Robb]

When looking up the model number HDWR440UZSVB, make sure it's not showing results for the HDWG440UZSVA, which is a n300

[Astrophel]

10 hours ago, Ryker Robb said:

Which model number? The serial does match up with the HDWR440UZSVB model number on the drive:

And that model number is in fact, an x300 pro: toshiba_x300pro-salessheet_english-web.pdf

Ah, that makes sense now thanks! When looking up just the model number it comes back as the N300, but according to the data sheet the part number is a x300 pro so that's very confusing but I guess that's the con's of having the sample model if it really is one.