HGST Touro Mobile 1TB USB 3.0 Black External Hard Drive HTOLMX3NA10001ABB

Pros: Auto detected via usb port on router.
(ASUS RT-ac66u)
Mapped network drive to z:
Now all my computers have a external backup location.

Cons: bright blue led activity light

Other Thoughts: Draws power from the usb port

Pros: Does not work with with windows 8 in general and surface pro in particular. Google it to see the support forums at microsoft.

Cons: does not work

Pros: Small, Cheap, Fast, 1 TB for $70, USB 3.0

Cons: The supplied cable is rather short and very stiff. It's very hard to work with a drive when the cable is so short, especially when using a laptop with two other components at the same time. Stuff gets cluttered easy. Not a huge deal, but willing to take off an egg for it.

Other Thoughts: none

Pros: The price was good but when you consider it stopped working after very minimal use and NO abuse it wasn't worth it.

Cons: The thing stopped working after one system back up. When I went to access it again about 1 month later the drive would not work. I can hear it spinning but never actually connect to the computer. Tried several computers, which had worked prior, with the same result.

Pros: This thing flies when writing big files.

Copied 300GB worth of games onto it in around an hour.
Most of that was transferring at what W8 says was around 100MB/s.

Solid casing, looks good.

Cons: When transfering the small bits of my games the speed got all the way down to 500KB/s,

Not really a con but I was hoping for a metal casing. The pictures looked like metal to me kind of.

Other Thoughts: The pictures show "Touro" is written on the casing, this is not true, it says "Hitachi."

Pros: Small form factor
Quiet
Plug-n-Play
USB 3.0
On-Sale Price

Cons: Slightly larger than other drives

Other Thoughts: Bought 5 of these drives on sale for $70 each. $20 cheaper than Toshiba drives at Walmart (Walmart carries Toshiba 1TB drives for $89.99).

Great drives for low cost, not so if over $100.

I do forensic computer work and these external drives are fantastic for storing case image files.

Pros: Small size, high spin rate, low operating temp, big size in a little package

Cons: Proprietary USB cable may be difficult to replace if needed, provided cable is also extremely short (around 12"), so if you're trying to have it up on the desk but your PC is floor-standing you'll need a USB extension.

Other Thoughts: Overall a great little drive, I'm just worried about how to replace the proprietary cable should the one they provided fail.

Pros: USB 3.0 speeds - Relative to USB 2.0 it's MUCH faster! Getting about 80 MB/s write compared to my USB 2.0 flash drives 8 MB/s-ish write speeds.
No external power needed
Good price (when it's on sale)

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I would put this in the con section, but it really isn't. It probably could be a little smaller considering the fact that it's just a 2.5" laptop hard drive in there.

Pros: This unit offers a lot of storage in a very small package. The cable supplied with the unit is a heavy duty USB 3.0 cable. For a 5400 RPM drive, data transfer is still brisk across USB 2.0 (I don't have any USB 3.0 ports on any computers yet,and so can't evaluate that aspect.)

Cons: It's a bit early for me to tell yet, but the connector on the drive end looks as though it will be delicate.

I also would have hoped for a slipcase of some kind to keep the unit in when not in use. (I'll probably just use an old Nintendo DS travel case...)

Other Thoughts: It's really very early on yet, as I just received the unit yesterday. Break out the magnifying glass if you want to read the warranty, and there is no "instruction guide" provided, but hook-up is basically idiot-proof.

Data transfer rates across USB 2.0 in actual use (moving large video and audio files) was somewhere in the 30 - 33 mbps range, which is plenty fast enough for my intended use (data backup device).

PCLinuxOS 2012.02 saw the drive within seconds, and had no problem mounting and communicating with it.

After my warranty period expires, I'm thinking or repartitioning the back half of the drive as EXT3, just to compartmentalize some storage for Linux machines and obviate the need for defragmentation on that partition. If so, I'll jot back after a while and talke about how it went.

Pros: travelstar 5k1000 5400rpm with sata3+usb3 interface
small, silent, no heat

Cons: speed is not so fast, but is sufficient for me.
benchmark shows 120MB/s sequential read, in practical use it is around 70-80MB/s

Other Thoughts: I installed ubuntu in it and successfully boot from my laptop's usb3 port, love it.