Pros: Attractive enclosure and stand, fast read and write, especially via eSATA, long rugged USB cable, lots of drive space, standard power supply, plug and play, doesn't break.

Cons: 1) The drive weighs a tad on the heavy side; good for desktop, so/so for travel. 2) The included software is on a 'virtual' drive. Password protection is only for proprietary encrypted backup, not for the drive itself, therefore the claim that this drive includes password protection is misleading. An actual CD of the software is not included or available on Toshiba's site, so when the virtual drive gets corrupted your encrypted backup will essentially be rendered inaccessible. Aside from this, the drive itself or any regular files cannot be password protected by the included software.

Overall Review: When it came time to get an external I bought Toshiba because in my experience they are an excellent company. If you're smart and you use your own straight forward backup software or simply copy the files yourself, this drive is a beauty. I highly recommend picking up an eSATA card and cable to take advantage of its top speeds. I'm using a simple low profile 1X1 Rosewill 1.5GB standard PCI card through which the drive reads and writes in less than half the time of USB. You have to admire Toshiba for having the guts to provide a non-proprietary power adapter so if it breaks down the road you can replace it anywhere easily. Plus if you go overseas you can buy a proper adapter there. I'd have rated it 5 stars if they didn't bother to include the distracting 'virtual' software drive.

Pros: I have had this for some time and have used it under Ubuntu, XP, Vista, & 7 it has worked all. The shell is very appealing to the eye but does catch the fingerprints. It comes with one usb cable but no eSata. The transfer rate is normal within range of other external HDD. I transferred 40 gigs in one move and became slightly warm. Also it's not 1TB base 10 but 1TB base 2. It does come with one ~50 megabyte virtual image that can be removed but not a process the average would know.

Cons: none

Overall Review: From what I have read of the other reviewers about it not reading the drive on XP, you must have something broken on XP’s side.

Pros: 1. Decent priced 1TB External Hard Drive for only $90 shipped. 2. eSata + USB 2.0 Option 3. eSata write speeds averaging 90MB/s 4. USB 2.0 write speeds averaging 30 MB/s

Cons: 1. Only comes with a USB 2.0 cable, had to buy an eSata cable which is no problem since I found one from Newegg with free shipping. 2. As others have mentioned, the "Password protected backup encryption" ad. Thought it'd mean the whole drive has a password protection but it's onlyh for backup encryptions that get the password protection.

Overall Review: Tested a transfer speed from this External Hard Drive to an Internal Hard Drive (Western Digital WD5000AAKS) with a 25.5GB file: USB 2.0 = 14 min 30 seconds @ 30MB/s eSata = 4 min 50 seconds @ 90MB/s Test 2: Same file except in reverse order: USB 2.0 = 18 min 8 seconds @ 24MB/s eSata = 6 min 48 seconds @ 64MB/s

Pros: If it worked properly, the price and warranty was worth it.

Cons: It never worked. I tried it on both PC and laptop and the launcher.exe nor the virtual icon came up. It also didn't helped that Tech support kept passing you along to other numbers or parts of the Toshiba website, only to end up with their manual in which everything they asked to do I did, but to no avail. I was totally disappointed.

Pros: It turns on

Cons: Has an annoying CDFS partition, full of poor quality software it wants to install. It does not include software to remove it.

Overall Review: I bought this drive because the price was right for a 1 tb usb/esata drive. I now wish I had gone with a competitor. It comes with a 250 mb hidden partition full of their software. You can't simply format/repartition it away. I'm sure with enough hunting you can find a way to remove it but Toshiba should provide an utility with the disk. If I can't find a way to remove it soon I will be returning the drive. There is no shortage of drives on the market, skip past this one.

Pros: good price / USB + eSata

Cons: The item is incorrectly listed, it is NOT a 2.5" drive it is a 3.5" drive.

Overall Review: looks like a good deal and esata + USB is nice, just be sure you are not expecting a 2.5" drive

Pros: Great back up very silent good for backing up playstation3 games and memory.

Cons: None yet

Pros: nice looking, and has SATA

Cons: failed after a few months...heed what almost everyone is reporting about this drive, and do not buy it. You have better odds at winning the lottery than having this drive work for you after a while.