Toshiba E05A100PBU2EK_C 1TB 2.5 inch External StorE Art HDD
Posted by Notcot on Oct 24, 2010 in PCs & Laptops |
Product Description
Toshiba StorE Art V3 25inch 1TB Black E05A100PBU2EKC Storage External Hard Drives
- Hard disk drive capacity: 1000 GB
- Internal: N
- Hard disk rotational speed: 5400 RPM
- Hard disk interface: USB 2.0
- Hard disk size: 6.35 cm (2.5 “)
For the price, this device is amazing. 1TB of storage for less than £100 including delivery. I bought a couple of these from Amazon, and they are both perfect. They come with some included software (on the drives) for backing up your computer, but I simply deleted this as I use the windows 7 backup facility. The drive is plug and play, Windows 7 finding the appropriate drivers quickly and installing the same. The drive requires no external power supply (it uses the power derived from the USB port), so the drive is ideal for a laptop on the move. There are no doubt faster drives, but this is fast enough (e.g. to stream HD content) and for the price is hard to match.
Rating: 5 / 5
Love this little drive, solidly built and offers good protection for mobile applications. The added benefits with these types of mobile drives is that you don’t need to mess around with external power supplies and the footprint is much smaller so the added expense is worth it.
From factory they are pre-formatted to NTFS. Two year warranty also for added peace of mind.
The only criticism is that it should be supplied with a case to minimise the top/bottom covers getting scratched etc.
I’ve been using Toshiba drives for quite sometime now and never had one fail. Much more reliable than Seagate/Western Digital in my experience.
Rating: 5 / 5
Fantastic product, does it job. Handy to carry around. Never imagine something small like that could carry so much information. Make one wonder why we have all this bulky computers when all we need is a pocket size drive.
Rating: 4 / 5
First class service as always, HDD is small in footprint and big on storage…. excellent
Rating: 5 / 5
I was worried this might be slow since it runs off the power supplied over USB alone, but it’s super fast! I’ve only used it for a week, so can’t comment on long-term robustness, but Toshiba drives have never failed me before.
Small, light, and it doesn’t look half bad either. I can’t find any faults with this product, so it’s surprising that it’s so cheap.
Rating: 5 / 5