Pros: Very nice drive compact no power source other than USB needed. Got it for my son. Maybe have to get one for me. I didn't run any tests on drive just opened and hooked it up to test.(See Cons)runs fine. Shipping was very fast.

Cons: Packaging was not so good. It was in the box from manufacturer. But newegg just put it in a bubble wrap folder. When I saw it laying on my porch i just a picture of the ups guy just dropping this drive on my porch from three feet up. Being a hard drive it should have been in a box with packing around it. So i took an egg off for packaging.

Overall Review: Don't usually have any problems with anything I get from Newegg. So for the many things I get almost every week from them. I guess its bound to happen once in a while..

Pros: Terrific price

Cons: This drive lasted about 2 hours from when I turned it on but since I didn't open the package until just a little over a month from when I got it NewEgg won't offer an RMA. ZERO support from them and t Toshiba support info on the NewEgg page goes to a 404 - page not found. If you search you can find the main Toshiba site but they have farmed their support to the 'acclaim' site. Try entering your serial and part number there for an RMA and it comes back with an invalid serial number. The toll-free number won't let you talk to a human, it directs you to get an RMA on the website. But the website says the serial is in valid. So I tried a support chat with a NewEgg rep and they gave me a bogus serial number to use... and then said they don't open the packages so they don't know what my serial is and then told me I have to get support from Toshiba. When I questioned 'Devin' on where did he/she get the serial number they disconnected my session. I am aghast at the lack of service from NewEgg and Toshiba. I rue the day I got this Piece Of Sh* as whenever I've had a Seagate or WD drive fail I can promptly enter the serial and get warranty status/RMA. The 3 year warranty from Toshiba is a lie since you can't get service from them. NewEgg should be ashamed that they are selling these things.

Pros: Typical solid Toshiba quality, no issues, large capacity, USB 3.0 interface, portable 2.5 form factor with no need for additional power supply.

Cons: If you read the specs and understand what it is that you are purchasing I see no cons.

Overall Review: What amazes me is people who claim "High Tech Knowledge" and yet the fail to understand that hard drive manufacturers always report the capacity using the decimal definition yet OS's use binary logic, which equates to roughly 7% less usable capacity than advertised. Nothing to gripe about since its been this way from day one and every manufacturer does it.

Pros: This drive presents a good amount of storage and fast transfer speeds. Using a PCI X1 USB 3.0 controller card, I was able to transfer to and from this drive at an average of about 65 mb/s. The LED does a good job indicating the load and traffic of the drive when it is in use. It also lights up accordingly to what type of USB port it is plugged into. 2.0 and below have the LED come up as white, while USB 3.0 have the LED show was a bright blue. Nice touch. The design is simple and straight to the point. The top is flat so you can stack other drives on top if needed. The case is also easy to take apart if you need to access the actual drive itself. The drive is also quiet. Finally, I was able to get this for a good deal from a company that had purchased them for office use but never got around to even taking them out of the box. I ended up paying $80 for the drive (including postage).

Cons: After about four hours of use, loading about 1TB of data onto the drive, and unplugging it for a few hours, it stopped being recognized as a lettered drive in my OS (though the drive still spun, led still worked, and the disk itself was noticed in disk management). Oddly, when plugging it back in, disk management showed it with two different, unlettered paritions and two portions of free space, altogether totalling about 1.8TB! I had to use a file recovery program to get my data back and after merging all of the partitions together, I was able to format and assign a drive letter. Now it is back to normal operations. Also, if the drive is not in use, the solid LED that indicates it being online will go off. This makes it hard to tell if the drive is plugged in or working if you are just checking real quick visually. The cable is also short and rigid, but it probably just needs to be broken in.

Overall Review: Windows shows this drive as being about 1.36 TB of space. Would've been a perfect score if it wasn't for that crash and the hassles that I had to go through to get my data back.

Pros: Small, quality build, reasonable price

Cons: Automatically goes to sleep by itself. Mac doesn't wake it up fast enough for Time Machine.

Overall Review: I bought this drive for Time Machine backups. If left plugged in, then the drive's internal power management puts the device to sleep. This version of sleep doesn't respond quickly enough for Time Machine. The solution for me was to allow my Mac to put the drive to sleep. That way, the OS knows to wake it up before it tries to write to the drive.

Pros: Size and price are great (especially since I got it on special). Not requiring external power is a huge plus.

Cons: The auto-sleep functionality they put on their drives is a killer. In using linux, the drive powers itself off and i get I/O errors rather than it spinning back up. If I disconnect and reconnect it will re-recognize and work until it decides to sleep again.

Pros: shipped fast

Cons: Stop working after first use (clik of death). didn't move it much between first and second use (didn't leave the house), was only a day later... Lost all data i had backup on it.

Pros: Smaller than most external drives and has been going strong for about 6 months. I've been very satisfied with this drive.

Cons: The cable is very short, and this isn't really a problem with the drive itself, but the USB 3.0 doesn't really impact transfer speeds all that much with most systems I've seen because the speed tends to be limited more by the speed of the drive rather than the USB. So even though the 3.0 is capable of much higher speeds, most of the time the transfer speed won't be much higher than 2.0 anyway.

Overall Review: I keep seeing reviews on NewEgg of people having components fail - every item I've looked at reviews for has at least one - but I've never had any problems of that nature with anything I've bought. All the stuff I've bought for the computer I built - including this external - is working great.