Reviews

See above... waited for 25 minutes on phone for support with Toshiba and gave up... no online support for this product. Is not compatible with both MAC and PC as advertised.

I've been doing computer work for over 21 years. I bought this drive as an alternative to hauling around my larger 3.5" format 1TB drive. Performance is good at about 77MB/s. The problem is it totally powers off after two minutes of inactivity. Once you access the drive at sleep, it takes about 10-15 seconds to come back online. My older WD 120GB drive does not do this, and I have not read anywhere else in other product reviews of this problem. Toshiba does not list this specific model at their support site. After several hours of research, I located a utility that is supposed to edit the firmware to remove the power off issue. No dice. Keep shopping elsewhere.

I had bought a Lenovo Ideapad, which is great but has a tiny screen. I wanted a monitor -- bigger, but not too huge -- to sit on my desk. The idea was that it would be a large as a desktop monitor but I could take the laptop when I need It. The 21.5 inch Toshiba was perfect, and came with all cables, which made a good price even better. I think I ordered it on line on a Monday and it arrived Wednesday. So I'm very happy.

This was easy to set up and starts working as soon as you connect. I made the mistake of including more than I wanted to the first time I backed up and it took all night. The next time I only backed up the files I needed (photos & personal files mostly) and it went fast.

This is one of the early USB 3 external drives. It works well and provides higher transfer speeds. But that is what it is designed to do. So no surprise. Is it extra special? Nope

I'm a photographer and needed something to store my photography on. I had filled my computer's hard drive up! So I got this on sale and have since transferred all my PC's photo files to it and have added and still have plenty of space. It's easy to toss into my bag so that I have it with me. I have no complaints really! It's a great portable hard drive that completely fills my needs!

This USB HDD provides a high amount of storage, with 3 GB capacity. USB 3.0 interface provides decent, if not blindingly fast, access rates. It is reasonably compact and light weight, making it a fairly convenient portable storage device for travel, and its price was very competitive. I have no misgivings about selecting it for my portable storage needs.

This Toshiba external drive was a great value and it works fast and so far reliable. I use it to backup my documents and pictures and store it in a safe.

Love it. Needs no extra power connection, just plug it into USB port and go. Could use a longer USB 3.0 cable (only 6 inches or so) but it was provided with HDD, so i did not have to buy it :-)<br />I am computer tech knowledgeable and i have used different external HDD (Western Digital, Seagate etc) and this is by far the best for an HDD i have used.

I bought this to replace and old one that didn't work after about 3 uses. And I couldn't be happier it quickly backed up my entire computer and has been great in the time I've had it. Highly recommend this product.

The laptop is great, very light, has a great performance and turns on very quickly. What i haven't found very good is Windows8, the options displayed with the right click are lost now and the apps like skype and dropbox developed for windows8 are very poor and doesn't even do the basics.

My luck with PC hard drives in portable PS's has not been great. Dell Inspiron 15 inch three hard drives in 7 years, HP 17 inch multimediap 3 hard drives in 3 years, New ASUS 15.5 so far so good.

I think this is an excellent product. I like it because I can use an sd card in it and replace the battery or carry an extra one if the other one goes dead while traveling. The battery is LONG lasting as well. Great product from Toshiba and would highly recommend! I also use it to watch movies on and it is a beautiful picture and sound.

This 500GB portable hard drive was just what I needed when I purchased it. It has sufficient capacity at the sweet spot price. And the USB 3.0 will be useful in the future.

It's compact, holds a lot. It was super easy to install and use. I can't comment on speed because I have an old PC. But for what I have and 250Gb of photos, it works just fine.

they work just fine, got a couple to back up a couple of computers. Had previously purchased a different Toshiba drive and am using the backup utlity which came with that one. These things are faster than I expected.

All I had to do was plug it in! Backed up my MMO characters and stats with ease. The best part is with both 2.0 and 3.0 USB port I can use it for my older PC and a newer one.

The storage unit was very easy to install and simple to use. I would recommend this unit to anyone that has stuff to store like pics, music, movies, etc.

Despite a lot of effort, I could not get this drive to work properly with XP, Win7, or Win8. It would not partition properly as GPT or MBR. Formatting was so slow I several times had to cancel the effort. By &quot;slow&quot; I mean it was taking hours.

This is the largest capacity portable hard drive with normal exterior dimension. Any bigger capacity (2TB) ones in the market are actually thicker. In conjunction with the price point makes it a good deal from per gigabyte perspective.