Toshiba 1 TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive PH3100U-1E3S (Black/Silver)
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- USB 3.0 & USB 2.0 Compatible
- Quickly add storage to your computer
- Simple Plug&Play operation
- No software to install
- Drag & drop to save files
- 3-year limited warranty included
- Ready to use right out of the box
- Simple Plug & Play operation
Toshiba USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drives offer blazing fast interface transfer rates. The built-In USB 3.0 Interface significantly improves file transfer performance for large media files and dramatically minimizes the wait time for backup. Plus, they are backwards compatible with USB 2.0 devices. This drive is ideal for expanding your storage needs and offers Plug&Play simplicity – ready to use right out of the box with no software to install. Just connect the drive to the USB port on your computer, plug in the power adapter and you are good to go. It’s storage at its simplest! You’ll enjoy ample storage space for even the largest digital libraries. Our 1.0TB Drive is capable of storing up to: 285,000 digital photos, or; 263,000 digital music files, or; 820 downloaded digital movies. This Toshiba drive is designed to be versatile on your desktop – supporting both horizontal and vertical placements. Plus, its fan-less design makes drive operation whisper quiet while efficiently
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Toshiba 1 TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive PH3100U-1E3S (Black/Silver)
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I’ve tested several external 2-3TB, USB 3.0 hard drives over the past month, and for various reasons (VCD, USB 3.0 issues, etc) have set aside all but this one. Testing was performed on a Dell 7400 workstation running XP SP3.
This drive worked immediately out of the box, no intrusive VCD, no formatting problems, and partitioned easily into two approximately equal logical drives. USB 3.0 Transfers from the internal hard drive to this drive indicated write speeds of 39-51 MB/sec for single 1GB and 4GB video files. Multiple files (1800 files totaling 1GB) were understandably slower at about 26MBsec. Read speeds back to the computer were slower. The only nit-picking quibble I might have is the very bright(!) activity indicator on the front panel, but this minor point does not detract from the functionality of the product.
Reliability is the next issue, and this review will be updated if anything untoward occurs within the next few months.
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|Easy to use, needs reformatting to us with a Mac,
This hard drive was very easy to use with my mac after I reformatted it to my operating system. It was slightly frustrating as the packaging says it is possible but gives no instructions on how to do it, and neither does the online product help page. By googling “how to reformat an external hard drive for mac” I was able to find a message board that discussed this topic. It took the third of the suggested options to reformat, but after this (which only took about 10 minutes) the hard drive was drag and drop ready. Files transfer quickly and are easily indexed. A great value for the money!
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|no unnecessary software,
I am so used to receiving external hard drives with unnecessary software, drives and programs that i was completely shocked when i plugged it in and it was ready to use within 5 seconds. This is exactly what an external hard drive should be, the only thing preloaded on the drive is two .pdf documents that can be deleted anytime you want. I have just received the drive, but so far backups have worked flawlessly and i cannot recommend this drive enough.
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