Toshiba PA4282E-1HJ0 1TB Stor.E Partner USB 3.0 2.5 Inch External Hard Drive - Black

A good buy, I highly recommend it !!!
This is a very nice 500gb drive, perfect for all you home data needs and requirements, to give you an idea of what 500gb's of data represents you are looking at 131,000 songs or 142,000 photos or 410 video clips. For most home applications filling it would be a challenge.

The box is small but informative, giving you all the information required :
The drive is USB3.0 but also backwards compatible with USB2.0, using a fast USB3.0 connection you can get transfer speeds of up to 5.0 Gbps. The drive does come pre loaded with NERO backItUp & Burn software but I haven't tried it yet so can't vouch for its ease of use (having said that I have heard lots of good things about NERO).

Out of the box the contents are simple :
The drive is finished beautifully, feels robust and well built and a perfect complement to my Toshiba NB500 Netbook. It has a little LED light which indicates power and data transfer. It is small and compact at 12cm long, 8cm wide and 1.4cm...

Toshiba PA4282E-1HJ0 1TB Stor.E Partner USB 3.0 2.5 Inch External Hard Drive - Black

Very good as expected
This is a great little hard drive. It is very small, compact and nice to look at as opposed to some of the larger ones out there. I was backing up my data within minutes of receiving it through the post, no installation needed. I expect no issue with it as Toshiba is a good brand. Not a lot to say about a hard drive really... Very good purchase!

Toshiba PA4282E-1HJ0 1TB Stor.E Partner USB 3.0 2.5 Inch External Hard Drive - Black

Toshiba PA4272E-1HE0 Store Partner 2.5 inch 500GB Hard Disk Drive - Black
Excellent product! ;) Highest Recommendations. Light, extremely easy to use, elegant, excellent finishing, fast... Comes with the cable, you do not need separate adapter. For 500 GB you do not need anything else.

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Toshiba HDTC615EK3B1 1.5TB Stor.E Canvio USB 3.0 2.5 Inch External Hard Drive - Black

Can't fault it yet
The enclosure seems well made. The top and base are glossy plastic and round the edge is a 'hard' plastic to protect from drops. It feels pretty solid and fits in the 'Caselogic Small Hard Drive Case' (available on Amazon) nicely, it is on the small side as 1tb drives go. There is an activity light on the unit which is white. The usb 3 port seems robust, I know some portable drives have problems with these connections breaking loose but I can't foresee any problems with this one. There are four small rubber feet on the bottom of the enclosure, the supplied usb 3 cable is approx 30cm.

I don't have access to usb 3 ports to test but it was fast over usb 2, up to 30 mb/s read/write on Windows 7. The drive has an excellent power save mode, it will spin down within 3 or 4 minutes of inactivity which is useful if you are running on battery on your laptop for example. The drive does not seem to drain too much power (I have heard of some 1tb portable drives requiring the power from...

Toshiba HDTC615EK3B1 1.5TB Stor.E Canvio USB 3.0 2.5 Inch External Hard Drive - Black

Be careful with the backup software!
I recently bought two of these and I have no complaints about the way the drives themselves work. They are very quiet and also not very heavy. However I made the mistake of stopping using my previous backup software and started using the software which was preinstalled on the drives. It seemed simple and efficient and when I checked what had copied over it seemed all there. It was only a while back, when I needed to retrieve some files, that I realised that on one drive everything had been copied apart from all the Photoshop files, presumably because they did not have an extension recognized by the backup programme; on another drive, where I had copied all of the content of "My documents" from another computer, I discovered that while certain folders had been copied over, not all the subfolders they contained had been copied - this time it was certainly not an issue of extension, as all the subfolders contained very similar basic files in Word. I contacted the manufacturesr of the...

Toshiba HDTC615EK3B1 1.5TB Stor.E Canvio USB 3.0 2.5 Inch External Hard Drive - Black

Good, but not perfect
I got one of these Toshiba 1TB 2.5" USB hard drives after I filled the old Toshiba 250GB 1.8" USB drive which I bought in 2009. I've been using it for about a year now and haven't had any problems. It has a decent amount of storage at a sensible price, it's quiet, and it's reasonably small and light so it's not too much of a problem to put it in your pocket or bag when you travel. It's not super speedy but it's quick enough (I get about 30MB/s on USB2 and 50MB/s on USB3). I haven't had any issues powering it from any of the computers I have attached it to (some hard drives try to take more power than a standard USB socket can provide). I do have a few niggles, though...

1. The supplied USB cable doesn't seem to attach to the drive very securely. I have seen it disconnect from the computer when I have moved the drive. The cable is also a little bit too short (it's around a foot long) if your computer is under the desk or in a large tower case.

2. The...

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