TOSHIBA MQ01ABD100 1TB 5400 RPM RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Notebook Hard Drive

Pros: Quiet, cool, inexpensive, seems fast.

Cons: none yet (hopefully never)

Other Thoughts: I needed a big drive to collect all our important family videos, photos, etc . I'm using this on an old P4 Dell with a PATA (ide) to SATA adapter without a hitch.. I recommend this drive.

Pros: Installs into a PS3 flawlessly. Decent size and form-factor. RPM is on the dot, as the PS3 won't spin above 5400 RPM anyway. At the time, the price was $80, so it was totally worth it. No complaints since, and the person I replaced the PS3's HDD with has noticed increased performance.

Cons: For a laptop hard-drive, you'd expect higher RPM and Cache, especially for stock price of $130. Ouch.

Other Thoughts: Great when it's on sale. have at it.

Pros: Works.

Cons: NOT QUIET. HAS VERY LOUD CLICKING. This came as in internal drive in my Arctic MC001, which is supposed to be a completely noiseless, fanless HTPC. However, the terrible clicking that this drive gives off during normal operations can clearly be heard during quiet times from across my living room. As a result, I am having to replace it.

Other Thoughts: I'm sure there are lots of application where a clicking hard drive would not be objected to. But trying to use it in a "silent" HTPC is not one of them. Bad choice, Arctic.

Pros: SATA 3, quiet, cool.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I replaced a hybrid drive as the second drive in an I7 quad core laptop, and one is a primary drive replacing a hybrid in an I5 dual core. In random reads and writes, the analog has been copying around 5 MBs/sec faster than the hybrid. Some defrag applications seem to be more compatible as well.

As the primary drive in the I5, I am using a Class 10 SD card as Ready Boost. It is almost as fast as the hybrid. At least I am happy with the speed.

The battery life has increased with the 5400 RPM as well.

Pros: Works exactly as expected, tremendous value for the buck. Only took ten minutes to install in HP-dv-7 lap top.

Cons: The physical install was quick & easy.

Other Thoughts: TIP: POP for the Windows 8 upgrades rather than installing earlier versions. My Windows 7 systems restore w/ updates took five hours. I've done this before using an old dated system disc w/ an on line $40. Update available from the MS website & did the entire transition in less than two hours. The physical install is the easy part.

Pros: PROS.. HEL ITS 1TB ISNT THT GOOD NUF THN THE PRICE.. I THNK I PAID BOUT 70 OR 75 BUKS. NOT A BAD DEAL AT ALL AT LEAST NOW DAYS WHN EVERTHNG COST YA A ARM & LEG.LOL. WELL I SAID I WOULD LET YA NO HOW IT WORKED IN MY PS3 IVE HAD IT UP N GOING FOR A WEEK OR LIL OVER AND SO FAR I LOVE IT EVER THNG IS QUIT AS A CHURCH MOUSE IT TOOK A WHILE TO GET MY PS3 DATA ON IT BUT I HAD BOUT 100GB TO RESTORE .TOOK BOUT 3 OR 4 HOURS TO GET 100 GB ON IT FRM PS3 BUT IF U WANT A GOOD HDD WITH A TON O SPACE TO SPARE THN THIS IS FOR U . BUT U WILL HALF TO GO TO THE CROP TO DOWNLOAD THE GOUIE VERISION OF FAT32 SOFTWARE SO THE PS3 WILL REKNIZE IT N IT WILL B SO WORTH IT .LOL. THN GET URE THUMB DRIVE/FLASH DRIVE TO DOWNLOAD URE UPDATE FROM SONY FIRMWARE THN URE REDY TO START BACKING UP URE STUF O (INPORTN) IF U WANT TO TRANSFER ALL URE PS3 DATA,SAVED GAME,DLC CONTENT THN U WILL NEED A EXTRNAL DRIVE AS WELL OR U CAN DO WHT I DID WITCH WAS JUST BUY A EXTERNAL ENCLOUSHER. FROM NEWEGG. I THNK IT WAS MAYBE 12 BUKS OR SO. PARDN THE SPELLING.. IM LAZZZZZY THN JUST STICK A HDD IN IT FROM URE OLD PS3 THT RROD OR Y LOD. O THIS WILL WORK JST AS WELL WITH THE XBOX360 BUT MICROSOFT WONT TELL U THEY WANT U TO PAY130BUKS FOR THAIR 320GB HDD LIKE I DID B FOR I FOUNDTHIS LIL FACT OUT ANY QESTIONS OR PROBLMS WITH SWAPIN URE DRIVES OUT JST HALA N I WILL B GLAD TO GIVE YA MY TOO SENCE WORTH..FORFREE.LOL. BIGCHEW151 ON THE PSN ORXBOXLIVE

Cons: WELL I HAVENT FOUND ANY CONS YET .. BUT I DONT THINK I WILL ETHER .BUT WHT DO I NO IM JUST A COUNTRY BUMPKIN FROM BAK IN DA STIKS H.LL WHERE I LIVE U BOUT GOT TO PIPE THE SUNSHINE IN HERE .LOL.

Other Thoughts: THIS HDD WILL WORK IN THE X BOX360 THEY R THE EXZACT SAME THING I AM ON THE PSN AS WELL AS X BOX LIVE BUT MAINLY PSN I HATE XBOX LIVE TO MANY KIDS . IM A GROWN MAN N DONT LIKE TO DEAL WITH A BUNCH OF RICH SPOILD LIL BRATS .LOL. SORRY IF U HAVE ONE OR TO OR EVN IF U R ONE .LOL. THIS IS A REAL GOOD INVESTMENT FOR ANY REAL GAMER I PROMIS YA WILL NOT REGRET IT

Pros: Just orderd the 1tb laptop hdd to put in a ps3 havnt got it yet but im hopin tht ever thng will work jst fine ! didnt see any one say anything about upgrading thare ps3 with this so i thought id rwright about it becouse i couldnt find any to very lil info bout puting this hdd in a ps3 .. i will update this when it arives and i install it an let u no if and how it works!!

Cons: again i dont have any cons....YET any how but wewill c i rekon.

Other Thoughts: ..

Pros: Put two of these in a small raid box, and am pleased so far. Very quiet, cool, plus verified with Toshiba warranty site these have a full three-year warranty. The manufacture date was less than one month before I received these.

Cons: Didn't get them on "super-saver" - and there are no 2tb drives in 2.5" thinner than 15mm - Raid box won't hold those.

Other Thoughts: I think there is very little difference to be found among the WD, Hitachi, Toshiba, Samsung 1tb 5400 laptop drives - so for me warranty was the thing.

Pros: Good deal in terms of price per GB.

Cons: This is the "clickiest" notebook drive I've heard in a long time. Even during sequential reads/writes it frequently makes loud clicking sounds, even louder than a desktop hard drive near the end of it's life. It sounds like someone standing over your shoulder and smacking their lips. Drive seems to be working fine and passes all SMART tests, but that clicking makes me really nervous as it usually indicates a drive is about to fail.

Pros: Overall the only real improvement from the previous HDD is the increased sectors and clusters on the 1TB Diskettes, when I imaged my smaller hard drive with the C:// drive and Recovery partition worked swell (After many hours of wait) and I had my new drive with Windows 7 Home Premium all my partitions (HP tools and Microsoft Office click-to-run) as well as my files and desktop icons transferred seamlessly.

Cons: the c: drive partition was still only 328 GB so the rest of the space was unallocated, all 645 GB of it, but became a none issue when I mounted the extra space to the C: drive as a media portal on my desktop

Other Thoughts: the problems with the partitions and unallocated space was unrelated to the Hard Drive itself so there are no real cons with this device, however I noticed that the Windows boot process takes a few extra minutes, but its all good, I'm a patient man.