It's not the sexiest of sleek tech, but more importantly it is tough and reliable. I have had mine for some time now and use it to back up everything from my laptop and for some extra storage if I need it. Set up and installation was easy and it appears nicely as a drive in your file/folder tree. USB connectivity and a (very bright) blue LED on the front so you know when it is on and connected successfully (turns red when on but not connected). I'm not sure if you are meant to "eject" it in windows before switching off but I never have and it seems to work fine. It has a switch on the back so you can isolate ...  Read the complete review

I bought this hard drive approximately a year ago from dabs.com it was on offer and the low price swayed me to trying it. I know of the brand Toshiba and know they're generally reliable and quite a big and well known company so i saw no problem purchasing from them even though i did not know of there hard drive manufacturing quality. First problem i encountered is that when i was plugging the hard drive in to the computer i was getting nothing, all lights were on, you could hear the hard drive whirring about inside the box but no pop up, nothing listed on the drive list on my computer. First of all I checked all cables ensuring there was no errors with them, ...  Read the complete review

I bought the Toshiba 3.5" External Hard Drive 320GB around 3 or 4 years ago when there was a deal on at PC World. I have to say that I haven't used it that much - perhaps to back up a few items, but I haven't used it for more than a couple of hundred hours in that time, occasionally plugging it in and transferring some files to and from the drive. It has recently failed on me - more on that later. ___What's in the box?___ The drive itself looks OK - it's mainly a metal finished on the outside, except at the two ends of the device where there is a black plastic and metal on top, covering it. An LED is positioned on one end - it flashes red and blue. ...  Read the complete review