Voted hot I have one of these don't know what hard drive is inside but hd tune says it's 7200rpm. Think I might just get another. Thanks

For anybody who's interested, it's the same price on Amazon too.

I have one of these for £70 on Amazon very lucky to get one haha. I also have popped this bad boy out of the case but can't remember what it was. When I get back home I can take a look if anyone wants to know.

Ah snap, my bad I have misremembered. Turns out I has a WD 5TB. Sorry about that guys!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Elements-Desktop-Hard-Drive/dp/B00NAQG0VY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462441043&sr=8-1&keywords=wd+5tb

That is the one I have, sorry about that.

Ha ha that is the HD that I ordered last night. £70? Wow! Was hoping that I would read great things about this cheaper Toshiba alternative

I got lucky on Amazon, turns out it has an EU plug tho. Didn't matter to me as I opened it any ways haha. But that maybe why it was going so cheap, clearing stock?

I have the 4TB version also took out the drive for my desktop pc and its VERY loud but fast (7200rpms). No problems with it so far.

From one of the Amazon reviews, it seems that the drive inside is Toshiba MD04ACA500, 7200 rpm, 64MB cache, SATA III.

I am waiting for another of those 5td WD offers for around the £99 mark.

It powers down after a few mins of inactivity then takes about fifteen seconds to spin up when accessed again. Is this the problem you mean or is there something worse I dont know about?

lol, did Amazon cut their price by one pence to price match BT? Sad but funny if they did.

seems to be plus £3.50 postage, amazon includes shipping

I bought one of these this week and plan to crack it open this weekend. Bought it through flubit for £97.65 delivered.

If this is like the 3TB one, then it appears reliable, but has its own set of problems.. If not accessed for a while, it goes into sleep mode, and need to be unplugged / re-plugged in, its a right pain imo if you intend to use it for Plex and the like, if you google Toshiba hard drive sleep problem, you will see loads of comments about it, there appears to be no long term fix, I have tried amending the power settings, Crystal disk, recurring access writes', nothing works. Good deal though for general storage, just be aware that it may suffer the same problems as other Toshiba Canvio's unless they have updated the cases.

If it helps anyone, here is the hard drive I have, and was talking about: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Toshiba-HDWC130EK3J1-Canvio-External-Desktop/dp/B009HXWWP2
If you look at the most critical reviews, you will get the idea.

I got a 5TB My Book Elements of the WDC education store for £99. Its £120 now though but the prices go up and down all the time.

Everyone of these i have encounted has temp issues had to send 7 back for clients the running temps are too high.

So i got one but it keeps dropping connection, can anyone shed light on this issue?

Finally got around to opening this drive. Inside is an MD04ACA500 with FW: FP2A. I have three of these drives in my NAS already (one has FW: FP1A) with no issues with sleep so it looks like it is the USB3 interface that is the issue. I saw the sleep problem when verifying the drive (by bitlockering it). Took several days to complete and went to sleep 4 or 5 times.

The disk drive itself looks to have a 2 year warranty from Toshiba.

just typed in the serial number of the bare drive at the Toshiba warranty checker (this one is in warranty until Nov 2017)

https://myapps.taec.toshiba.com/myapps/admin/jsp/webrma/addRequest1NoLogin.jsp

Anyone know why the 2 previous deals for this drive sold by WIGGhoff Retail INT on amazon were deleted here? It's back today at £90 but i'm concerned it's dodgy.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/5tb-toshiba-external-hdd-86-74-amazon-market-sold-wigghoff-retail-int-2455423

I spotted that and thought the same as you.

HUKD tell me it's because that seller has insufficient feedback to qualify here. I don't think i'll bother with it.

Thought it seemed a bit to good to be true. Think I'll leave it as well.