You should be especially careful when storing MP3s or other compressed files on these delicate drives, as the data is denser and therefore heavier. This means that centrifugal force will cause the bits to migrate to the outer edge of the platters, causing platter sag, and in extreme cases the drive can explode, showering the inside of your PC with destructive bits.

I am an expert on the subject of Hard Disk Drives and this warning should not be taken lightly.

Genuinely one of the most retarded comments I've ever read on here, and that's saying something.

Your meant to put this inside your PC, your not meant to play frisbee with it. :wink:

Rather lose a toe, than my porn :confused:

Actual technical question: these P300 would be more adequate being used as a "write once, read many times" drive (like where you install software, games, etc), or a "write many times" drive (like your downloads, photos, videos data repository) ?

Thanks for this post, this drive is very fast, I wish I'd got 2 now! the price has gone back up btw.

Samsung has managed to put 60tb into a 2.5" drive - (don't ask how much - cos i didn't look)

​It appears not. SSD drives remain stubbornly circa 6x more expensive than spinners. Regarding power, some sources say SSDs of 1TB and above consume more leccy than spinning rust, and generate more heat in consequence (seriously - and don't shoot the messenger).

Finally, capacities are weedy (for reasonable money). SSD does not appear to scale as linearly as simple platters, and even 1TB models rely on a lot of sideband technologies which aren't used in smaller models.

No expert, no axe to grind, just reporting what I have read.

​Many years ago I dismantled a laptop drive and was surprised to find transperant platters, seemingly made out of glass or similar. The only 3" drive I ever took apart had quite thick, shiny metal platters.

Yeah, I have just dropped a laptop or 2.5 drive with glass platters and had them break. They are great though for data security and easy to despose of though.

Yes that is probably why they don't shatter. I don't drop any of my hard disks out of windows, down stairs or hit them with a hammer. I expect if I put them first in liquid nitrogen, then it would be even more likely to happen
I just use them! Then they don't shatter, EOS!

I brought the 2gb version a few months ago and so its been fine. So far its handled the denser and therefore heavier data without issue. Weight not really an issue as I find no real need to move my desktop...

How are they any more delicate than any other drive in a desktop PC which never moves? You have lots of earthquakes down there in London or something?

m.2 will not be the final form factor. intel are already using pcie 3.0 x8 lanes. The biggest problem with m.2 and u.2 is that its physically fixed to x amount of lanes u.2 can't simply go up to x8 or x16 like what you can infact do with pci-ie cards.

Its shame they didn't think of the lanes issue.

Oh dear oh dear. :confused:

Maybe we've reached peak disk? SSD's are being announced left right and centre at fantastic capacitys. And if you look at say an M.2 there's very little to it and you can get 2,4 and 60Tb drives. Is this the last gasp for consumer spinning drives?
beyond the speed increase (not always there) the ecological burden of SSD's is far less, less power, less material used more robust.
What fantastic times we live in, when you can hold your entire datas in something no larger than your

I have shattered two glass laptop disks, they use glass to decrease shock damage originally however this isn't so much an issue now in modern metal platters with all the doohickeys they have developed. So though the glass is better for minor shock or movement while in use, they can shatter, if you say drop them out the window, down thr stairs, or hit them with a hammer :stuck_out_tongue:

Not bad at all, but given I paid £55 per drive a year and a half ago for toshiba 2TBs I'm sort of disappointed. I'd expected 3TB and possibly even 4TB to have come down to that sort of price. Oh well, it won't matter until the 2TBs fail and need replacing.

3TB is very good for me

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I trust vlad, he's always on point with advice

You should be especially careful when storing MP3s or other compressed files on these delicate drives, as the data is denser and therefore heavier. This means that centrifugal force will cause the bits to migrate to the outer edge of the platters, causing platter sag, and in extreme cases the drive can explode, showering the inside of your PC with destructive bits.

I am an expert on the subject of Hard Disk Drives and this warning should not be taken lightly.

Think Sam is trying to promote the light and hardy SSD haha

I would give up. You are not doing yourself any favours.

You ​are retarded to buy desktops with these heavy yet Delicate drives.

Full size drive. Very heavy and easily damaged. Wish it was laptop drive.

I've never heard of a HD actually shattering. The heads are the delicate part. Of course if they hit the surface they will cause bad sectors, but this may not be catastrophic. Laptop drives are designed to better survive movement. I've not heard of any difference between the materials used for laptop and 3.5" drives.

actually had a huge argument with amazon due to this. So I knew this would be OEM but I just wanted to make sure that it was. Talked to amazon through the chat and they ensured me that this is the retail version, you know all packaged in its retail state. When it arrived it came in a brown padded box. Complained and they told me that it will still be covered under manufacturer warranty which isn't true considering 50% of my PC is OEM and i know what that entails. Anyway i have it on record that amazon will be handling the full 2 years warranty if toshiba fails to handle any warranty issue after the first year.

The hard drive itself is really good, pretty fast read/write speed, near to minimal noise under full load and really affordable per gb.

Rather lose a toe, than my porn :confused:

Not so good when you drop one on your toe though.

This is a bulk (oem) drive. Toshiba apparently does not offer warranties for consumers on oem drives. So the only warranty you get with one of these is the standard 12months from Amazon as the reseller. Amazon should really make this clearer.