Voted Hot.Best price for the Drive I could find. I've ordered one. I've seen Toshiba drives in laptops for years, generally been very reliable from experience. First 3.5" drive I am purchasing that's branded Toshiba. Hope it's OK.

Perfect timing. Good replacement for my WD which is about to fail. Looks like Stablebit Scanner has just paid for itself :smiley:

Toshiba drives are the old IBM Deathstar drives aren't they? In which case I would not trust this drive at any price.

CCL Are okay no problems there.

You can get a external drive for this price what's so charming about the price?? Take HDD out of external case and can get a case for free

you don't want your hard drive spinning up and then going back to sleep too often, it can cause premature ageing - you can change the idle timer on western digital green drives to avoid cycling them too often, not sure about other makes.

thanks for sharing.heat from me

lol 2100rpm it would be slower than a pen drive

Servers run 15,000 rpm sas drives constantly, people always say the same nonsense about anything faster than 5400rpm, they will run really hot and noisy, no they wont I have 5400rpm drives that are hotter and louder than these, more power yeah man your really gunna notice that extra 3 watts on your electric bill

If you run a game or application of a drive and cant use a ssd you should absolutley buy a 7200rpm drive

Yep, same here as the poster above. Used for many years, very reliable, never had a single problem with them

Been using them for many, many years. They're great.

Good price. Anyone know what CCL are like? I've not heard of them before.

Thanks god not eveyone is stupid here. All these arguments which are in favor of slower rpm is just ludicrous.

Couldn't you argue it the other way? A slower disk is going to be running constantly and use more power and get more worn. A faster disk is gonna spin up and get the data faster and then your SATA controller should put it to sleep, reducing power used and wear on the drive.

Couldn't agree more. I don't see much of a need for high RPM mechanical drives for most people anymore. For speed you have SSD for bulk storage (mostly media files) a low RPM is most definitely better. Give me low-noise, low-heat, low-power every time over a higher RPM that doesn't even matter.

They may have some use for large steam libraries if people don't want to (or can't) use SSD caching, and I'm sure there are some other niche cases as well that I can't think of. Frankly I just want to see *really* slow RPM drives starting to show up, like 3600RPM or 2100RPM, something like that. If I'm going to stick 4 or 5 into a microserver that's *exactly* what I want.

For media I prefer slower spinning drives - random access isn't a big issue, sequential rates are way above what I need, the drive runs cooler and uses less power. And yes, it might be more reliable as a result too. My first though seeing this was 'damn wish it was a slower RPM drive' lol

I very much doubt for a home user (with a family) you will have to wait or even notice you are waiting, we are 2016 and disks pump out typically 40MB/s average or 130MB/s+ sequential such as video. You will definitely wait if you had a one quarter million customer names database and doing SQL queries on it or doing big data analytics or pumping out multi-streaming videos to various TVs at home concurrently.

cant remember where i read, they said that the slower the hard drive, the longer you will wait.
Not sure what is more important, wait or if my harddrive would last bilion hours instead quadrillion.. Hmmm.

The funny thing about this is, you're probably a Windows user :laughing:

But to be honest if you're using this as a storage drive say for various media items it shouldn't really matter in regards to speed as you won't be running an OS or programs from a 5400RPM drive. So unless you are incredibly impatient i'd favour drive life over a marginal speed increase. But again I guess it's personal preference.

It's often on offer at Scan for pretty much the same price - as long as you have free delivery.

I've got this model as my main storage drive. Two years old without issue. I'm starting to like Toshiba from experience at work too

Based on my reading reviews and forums I also thought Toshibas were more reliable than WD, Seagate, Hitachi etc. Nevertheless this is 2016 and shouldn't be a problem for the average consumer. But I read an article online (can't remember the URL) which stated that slower the rpm longer the life of a mechanical hard driver would be i.e. 5400rpm > 7200rpm.

others will, we all got our favorites and reasons for it, I currently have 24+ drives, and through experience WD are my most previously failed drives, followed by seagate, toshibas have only come into my collection a few years ago but have had 0 problems so far, ''touch wood''

good price, just got a 3tb seagate drive from amazon for £69 and would rather that than the toshiba but others may have a different opinion