Great drive, just too smal
348901
EDIT EDIT EDIT Drive sleeps fine now. Not sure what changed but I think it was a firmware change. Real sleep, S3, wake with keyboard...
Definitely a five star hard drive. Does it boot fast? Hell, yes! Does it start and run programs quickly? Hell, yes! NOTICEABLE difference, The 1st hard drive in years that I can say that about. One thing that dinged off the last star. The 60GB is just too dang small! Windows 7, my regular apps, World of Warcraft, and Starcraft 2 is redlining my drive.
4390321
Put your drive in (mine was a 1 TB) plug it into USB, run "magic" software which comes with Inateck 2.5 and when you check you drive size via 'my computer'; ta da:: 37.5 MB@! They are clueless why this happens; save the grief, install it internally and treat it like a hard drive, you'll love this SDD drive; steer away from running the 'Magic" CD; unless you want an expensive thumb drive.
1959304
I needed a drive in FAT/32 format to hook up to my USB port on my receiver. holds 1/3 of my music collection and is almost invisable in my AV rack..  My only complaint is I wish it were a 3tb .  oh well, 1tb of music will still keep the house rocking
p.s.-- always have multiple back ups of your data...... always! I have a WD drive and it failed putting me in the hole for a $250 repair---- if  only i had backed it up...........
679532
Great drive, hole in the casing could much more sturdy & designed better.
510335
First off - this is a good drive. It's fast, small, quiet, allegedly Xbox compatible. Just basically a good unit.

I tested this thing by copying a -lot- of data I wanted to backup onto it. 21GB of data. Under Windows 7 I just selected a bunch of folders, drug them over, and then watched. This Touros, for me, stayed around 45 MB/s. That seemed slow for USB3.0 so I compared it to some other hardware. A USB3.0 Toshiba that I've used for a couple years was one third the speed. A very similar Toshiba drive that was USB2.0, but even older than the USB3.0 one, died during the test as in making clicking noises and mounting/unmounting itself. Anyways, the thing to take away from this is that this HGST Touro is fast and that I might need to upgrade my computer.

So, why four stars instead of five? It's that crappy drobbox wannabe software that comes on the drive. I checked some reviews from people that actually installed it and none had much good to say. I checked the Touro web site and it is long on marketing speak and thin on details. From what I could tell, it was kind of like drobbox and box were back in 2011 or so. Also, it is August 2014 and the web site's copyright notice still says 2013. What, no maintenance or upgrades? Also, just saying my data is "secure" isn't enough. They should catch up with the rest of the world and explain why I should believe it. Is it HIPAA compliant? What security standards does it meet? People are caring more and more about cloud data security.

So, minus one star for wasting my time. As I always do with these types of drive, the second thing I did (after researching the Touro SW) was scrub the drive by deleting all, creating a new one, and then doing a -long- format. This way I'm relatively confident that any preinstalled crapware won't sneak onto my computers.

In summary, this is one nice little piece of hardware but ignore the backup service thing.
2281564
Fast and perfect performance......have two. It lacks ANY directions for partitioning which if you don't understand will render the drive useless until you figure it out.
88040
I forgot the BS I needed to go through to get Windows to see the full 3TB, but that isn't the drive's fault.  I bought the 7200 RPM and 64MB cache specifically for better performance.  I am currently using about 700 GB of the 2.8 TB available so I don't expect a lot of "crunching" away.  Although my PC is a couple of years old, it's still fairly current technology (i7 cpu, 16GB DDR3 high speed RAM, ...).  The 1 TB main drive it replaced performs a bit better.  I would NOT use this for any RAID setup.  It is ideal as a backup/secondary drive.
2646081
Love the drives! The first order came packaged as expected (separate boxes, clam shell shock absorbers). The drives were easy to install and format. Start a format and find something else to do, it's going to be a looooong time.

**Beware of making one of these drives as your booter**

First off- the killer for performance is the 5400rpm. Transfer of huge amounts of data on the same drive becomes slow. The Samsung HD103UJ's that I was replacing are faster than the HD204UI's. I decided to keep a HD103 as a boot drive and the 204UI's as warehouse space. If you are doing media compression, I would suggest keeping a 103 and move your finished projects over to the slower 204's.
4873645
I used this drive to replace an aging 320 gb WD HDD in a Dell XPS 410 running Windows XP. The drive is very snappy and has changed my entire PC user experience.  I think I can go a couple of years more without replacing my PC, so the cost of the drive is reasonable compared to a new PC.

The drive cloning was not too bad.  I discarded the clumsy Norton Ghost program and used Acronis True Image to clone the drive which went smoothly.  I had to resize the hidden Dell recovery partition which grew from 4gb to 200 gb of wasted space.  I used EASEUS Partition Master, a great freeware partitioning program to recover the space for the primary partition.  You need to first shrink the hidden partition and then enlarge the primary partition.  When you do that, though, the hidden partition becomes visible and could allow someone to accidentally restore the PC to the original factory settings.  So you need to use Partition Master to hide the recovery partition again.

My major problem was that the mounting bracket was not really compatible with the plastic slide-in HDD carriages that Dell uses.  The screws provided were not long enough, and the mounting plate sits too deep in the slot to use the original right-angle SATA connector cable.  Ultimately after an hour of trying to figure out how to make the adapter adapt, I wound up mounting the drive to the Dell slide-in carriage with...you guessed it...Duct Tape.  Works fine and makes a solid if inelegant fitting.

The SSD Magician software permits firmware updates, but I am wary of using it on a "live" drive unless there is some major reason to do so.  A minor annoyance is that the Magician Software checks for updates frequently and I cannot figure out how to stop the annoying pop-up.  I suppose they learned this trick from Adobe.  I could not tell any perceptible difference after going through the Magician OS and Drive optimization and the performance tests were only slightly improved.

So, my bottom line is:  Get this drive.  Ditch the desktop adapter kit.  Buy Acronis True Image and a roll of duct tape. Don't bother with the Samsung Magician Software.
1567426
67 GB transfered in a half hour! Heck yeah...except not.

The drive looks really nice. It has all the interfaces. It has a great amount of storage space and it doesn't come preformatted (this is a BIG time saver).

The only thing is, it's unreliable/slow and I wish I would have take the reviews on here to heart.

That's half hour 67GB transfer? It's now at 2 hours and dropping...now it's at 2 hours and 45 minutes transferring at 8.5MB/s on Firewire. This is on a fresh drive with 150GB free (I did my initial backup, and am now putting more files on it). Lovely...

I think my best bet next time is to buy an external drive enclosure and buy a drive that has TYPICAL SUSTAINED TRANSFER RATES spec'd out. None of this "up to 35MB/s" garbage. My Western Digital Home edition drives (which they seemingly no longer make) sustain at around 25-30MB/s. I thought the Lacie drive would have no problem going at that rate since it says "PROFESSIONAL HARD DISK". How wrong I was.

Now it's down to 7.5MB/s transfer. This really is unacceptable. Sometimes the hard drive wouldn't even detect...the Lacie button software is a joke except for the formatting option during the initial setup. This thing may be sent back, what a pain.
313792
Huge storage capacity and excellent performance, but just slightly thicker than the WD Red 6 TB drives they replaced. They won't fit in a Buffalo DriveStation Quad without some effort.
1109975
The speed of this drive is incredible, but the stability completely negates any usability of the drive. I've tried two of these 120GB drive and two of the smaller 60GB drives as either the primary system drive, secondary drive, or Intel Rapid Storage Technology cache, and every single one of them causes the system to BSOD frequently and be completely unusable.

Some drive manufacturers offer a firmware upgrade that may fix this, however OCZ has not and it continues to be a problem. I have decided to shy away from any and all SandForce based drives and any other drives from OCZ. I have decided to go with the Crucial M4 instead which has near the same performance using a Micron controller instead.
4704197
Solid performance, and great form factor.  Really the only issue is the lack of a way to attach the drive to a lanyard or chain.  It currently just stays plugged in, but it seems likely that if it needed to be moved frequently, it would be easily lost.
4245864
Be careful with the 200GB Seagate Barracuda drives.  I got a bad one.
It works, but is very slow and makes lots of clunking sounds.
793102
Always running out of storage, like me?  2TB will last a while.  Meets expected WD quality and performance.
1015436
great capacity for backups etc but a bit bulky for carry around - I guess I am too spoiled by the Seagate Slim and Ultra Slim line
1431896
This has a lot of storage in a small and compact drive. My only concern is how hot it gets in my USB port. Why so hot?