How was your drive packed? The 5 star rating suggests things may have changed; What did you see?
62919
My hard drive was not packed well. Air bag underneath and on top but no sides so the packing had slipped to the side of it and the hard drive was touching bare box. I was very concerned when I opened the box but the drive appears to be ok.
1641222
Every drive I have ever purchased has been new - and worked great. If I got one that was old or used I would have certainly returned it - and if you are indeed buying new and got used, I would expect that you could contact Amazon for a return.
974654
Yes, I've done that and it works well. The one thing that I would say though, if you have too many directories on the drive it can be clumsy trying to get to what you are looking for, but if you don't go too crazy with that you'll be fine.
1600661
I have had the drive as my main operating system, as well as mass storage drive for almost a year, and so far, it has been reliable, fast, and quiet. However, as the previous person responded, I am using Linux, which does put less stress on the drive and the file system is a bit better at file allocation, ETC...My experience is very positive in this environment. (Using the 3TB version partitioned into three sections)
391462
I dont know what criteria this WEI is based on but many pple are complaining about the same thing on blogs, including myself; upgraded to a 180 GB SSD drive and still have a low score so go figure...
313988
Yeah, I figured as much....just like the price of gas eh? just strange that it only seems to be affecting these hard drives....not memory, smart phones or anything else!!
1224871
I'm honestly not sure, as I immediately formatted the drive when I got it. Sorry!
489053
Just to throw in my 2 cents here, the Disk Utility reformat mentioned above in Andrew's post is spot-on. The drive so far as been great to use. However, I'm running Mac 10.5.6 and it was immediately recognized when I first plugged it in: it mounted and Time Machine asked if I wanted to use it for backups...I did the reformatting anyway as the apps on board are no use to a Mac owner.BTW, the $99 price was unbelievable!Fingers crossed on reliability,Yikesboy
360188
I once had a G-Tech drive blow up...complete with smoke! They took the drive back and sent me a refurbished one.If you haven't called them, you should. I sent back the 4T I bought; I couldn't get it to turn on.
765102
I used the system profiler to check mine. I believe you can right click and select get info to see the specifics of the drive as well
955715
This was a bare drive. You may search for the rails separate or try to reuse the current rails if replacing a drive.
194749
How do you measure quality? Does it work as advertised? It does. Has it ever failed? Not yet? Have I taken it apart to evaluate its workmanship? No. But experience shows me that Toshiba can be trusted.
1089816
I can only tell you about my experience - I was in the process of transferring files to the drive. The transfer stopped about an hour in, and my system no longer recognized the drive's existence. Rebooting did not help. I also tried the drive on other computers, and they failed to recognize the drive also. The return process was fairly painless and my refund was processed very quickly.
2282183
Yeah. This is weird. This exact thing happened to us. I wrote a whole long review about it. Uh oh.
62528
I think my drive was formatted with ntfs but I can't remember for sure. I have received drives both formatted and blank. Drives I have received with back up software already installed have, for the most part, been formatted with ntfs.
694296
Driving the vehicle unloaded, I do not notice any significant change. Loaded, the vehicle does not sway as before and seems to track and hug the road better. I've asked my teenagers if they have noticed any changes while riding in the back, and they state that the ride seems to be more firm but not uncomfortable, and this seems to be the case whether the car is loaded or unloaded.
956185
can you tell me how you rinted the report that showed 640 mb?I cannot find it anywhere.....