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, nothing wrong, I was stumped. After a while i thought to myself, it couldn't be that I'd been given a hard drive that needed partitioning.... Yes, it could be. So there's me expecting to be able to plug and play whereas I'm sat here having to partition an external hard drive. I decided to do a proper partition which I then had to wait a few hours to do. After this the hard drive was finally working!

Using the Drive
First of all from what i remember ( can't remember the actual number ) the hard drive was significantly lower than the 320 GB that it was advertised at, for those who don't know much about electronic devices it is common for a device to be a little bit lower than what it's advertised to have but this I did feel dissapointed with.
The data transfer rates were also horrendous, I moved a lot of my music that had originally been stored on my internal hard drive on to the external that I'd purchased it was taking so much time that I eventually just went out to pass the time.

RIP Hard Drive
Not long after the initial purchase, I think around three to four months the hard drive seemed similar to when i first got it, nothing popping up when it was plugged in, i was a bit worried at this point as i saw no reason for it to be doing this, when taking a closer look at it ( it's stored on the floor behind the PC tower, i noticed that it was clicking in an odd manor. At this point i knew that something was wrong and rang my friend who does IT he thought it may be the writer was broken and at this point I'd just had enough took it out and put it in a cupboard and that's where it still resides.

In conclusion I'd say there are much better hard drives and bigger capacities for less money.