Customer Ratings & Reviews

Used to be a Seagate fan for their 5 yrs warranty on Hard rives but Seagate reduced warranty to 1 years on their hard drives. Started using Toshiba Hard drives since last 2 years and did not turn back. So far no problem with any of Toshiba Hard drives I have. The Price is lower if not lowest than other brands. This is my 1st 3TB drive came in retail pack which is very important for me. For an anticipated preexisting drop injury to a hard drive, retail packaging lowers the risk of failing. I do not like green drives which turn off or spin down and when accessed they take time to comeback to speed. I use this large capacity drive for Movies and it is almost instantaneous when accessing data from this drive. I am very happy with Toshiba hard drives.

Used to be a Seagate fan for their 5 yrs warranty on Hard rives but started searching for other brands after Seagate reduced warranty to 1 and 2 years on general use hard drives. Started using Toshiba Hard drives since last 2 years and did not turn back. So far no problem with any of Toshiba Hard drives I have. Price is always lower if not lowest than other brands. This is my 2nd 3TB drive in 4 months, came in retail pack which is very important for me. For an anticipated preexisting drop injury to a hard drive, retail packaging lowers the risk of failing. This is not a green drive, it is designed for 24/7/365 use. I do not like green drives which turn off or spin down and when accessed they take time to comeback to speed. I use this large capacity drive for data and it is almost instantaneous when accessing data from this drive. Only negative is some clicking when accessed but it has not harmed me and I care about reliability more than these minor unimportant factors. I am very happy with Toshiba hard drives.

Very enough for storing big files, and the speed is very fast.

Works as expected. Using 2 in raid 1. Silent, fast, and reasonable cool.

Preformed as expected! And at a wonderful price! My dell drive died, needed a new one quick, Best Buy had best price and fastest turn around!

Could not configure these drives for any level of RAID on my DNS 343. Had to use them as only single drives.

I chose this one based on price. I've had other Toshiba drives in the past, and their return policy is odd, but it worked out OK. This drive runs hotter than the 2TB Seagate that it replaced, so you should be aware there will be about a 5 degree Celsius difference in heat output. This drive is also louder than the Seagate. The drive arrived as expected. It functions well. There were no cables nor screws included, so this is bare bones.

I installed this as a back to my PC's SSD. Fast and quiet!

Great Fast 7200RPM HDD. The best one that Best Buy offers right now. Make sure to price match.

it was exactly as described ando also a good price

there is some ups and downs as installing it physically was easy enough and it showed up in bios but not windows 7 disk mgmt. but with a little knowledge, it was a simple fix - again for the price - buy it

I ordered 2 of them to build a computer and one worked flawlessly while the other failed.

Fantastic product. The sata cables fit perfectly in the new computer and i was able to set it to work right away. Hassle free.

This memory card is for my Sony Alpha, digital SLR,and is speedy, and extremely capacious

My husband installed it and computer couldn't find it and when he did get to it, the drive kept ejecting on him. Took it back and got and got a 5TB external hard drive. So much better.

Replaced another hard drive! And really easy to use

Installed in an enclosure, hooked up to my iMac works great as a Time Machine drive.

Purchased for my security cameras and is very quiet and works very well with the cameras. Good buy.

It's hard to do a perfect review on a hard drive, because one of the most important things is how well they store your data over time. You can't magically peek into the future and see whether these things will or won't die or give you problems along the way, so I'll try to keep it down to what I do know. This 3TB Toshiba drive replaced a 2TB Seagate that started having I/O errors when reading a small bit of data. Not wanting to risk waiting to see if that small error would become a bigger problem, I ordered this drive and had it shipped to me, which was processed and delivered faster than expected. Props to Best Buy and UPS for that. As for the drive itself, it has a three year warranty, but being larger than 2TB you'll have to format it using GPT rather than the old MBR standard, otherwise you won't be getting the full amount of space on the drive. Formatting will take a few hours, so after installing the drive don't expect to have it raring to go immediately. Speaking of installing, this is a bare-bones, no frills hard drive despite being in a retail box -- inside the cardboard you'll find a lot of foam padding to keep the drive protected, the drive itself within a protective bag, and a little warranty paper, but NOTHING ELSE. No screws, no cables, no instructions. Since I had extra parts and was familiar with the installation process, this was not a problem for me, but this drive is not a great choice for novices who have never poked around a computer's insides before. All said and done though, this Toshiba drive is doing its job, and seems to be a little faster and snappier than the old one it replaced. I can't really complain, and it has chugged along pretty much 24/7 in the several days its been since I got it. I did install a separate heatsink/fan to the bottom of the unit as well, just to help make sure that it wouldn't overheat, especially in this sweltering summer heat. So far though, it's been smooth sailing.

Read/Write heads failed 3.5 years after purchase. >$500 quote to recover data. And of course it’s not like it warns you of the pending failure.