HDDR320E03X Toshiba 320, Beatiful but crappy
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Beatiful but crappy
IMPORTANT UPDATE: DRIVER HAS FAILED, READ THE END OF THE REVIEW BEFORE BUYING!!!!!!!!!! (Amazon doesn’t allow me to change from five to zero stars)
I purchased this external HD mainly for backups of my HP laptop and my wife’s Mackbook. The main reason for choosing this model was that it is one of the few units that can startup without a 2-1 USB cable for extra energy. Macbooks strictly follows the 500mA current limit standard for USB ports so a lot of external drives that are powered directly from the USB cannot spin up without using two USB ports. This model works flawless with only one standard USB port.
Pros:
- No external power adapter (powered by the USB port);
- Small form factor;
- Light weight (light like an iPod);
- Beautiful design;
Cons:
- None so far, worked fine since I bought it one month ago;
Update: And then, after six more months… I can’t turn it on again, just the blue led lighten and a clicking noise, no spin up, not recognized by the Windows, nothing. At least mine lasted longer, as other people reports it failing in 2 or 3 months. Toshiba? Never more, I will go back to Seagate.
Update (2/6/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen. I also found some auctions for this item here.
The featured review for this product, Toshiba 320 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive HDDR320E03X Electronics, was written by Arnie.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Posted on: April 2, 2010
Filed under: Reviews
Reviews (3)
Arnie
February 24th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Beatiful but crappy
Rated 5 stars.
Ei Fujioka
March 17th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Works with WinXP and Macbook Air
I bought this item a month ago as a backup storage for a Dell desktop running Windows XP Home and a Macbook Air. It works great for both Win and Mac. No problem getting power from the USB ports of the two machines.
I especially like such portability of this item that I can bring it to my office on weekdays and take backups. It provides enough storage for my office PC and two home computers.
It’s shipped with Fat32 and I needed to reformat it with NTFS so that large backup files, say, 40GB, can be saved. For Macbook Air, I spared a partition and formatted it with HFS. I don’t keep it connected to one of the two machines as I don’t run daily backups. Instead, I connect it to one of them once in a while, say, once in two weeks and run Windows Backup manually. As for the Air, Time Machine is smart enough to start backup automatically when the Air recognizes the drive.
For safety, I also use the bundled NTI Shadow to backup music files and pictures from my digital camera. File based backups are quite simple and convenient and easy to restore in case of emergency. This is one of the reasons I bought this item when you could choose Western Digital’s Passport. I read some reviews claiming that the software shipped with Passport doesn’t work.
NTI Shadow works fine and as I mentioned above, it’s file based backup and I’m 100% sure that the backup files can be restored as I can open them from this drive!
If you use different backup software, you could go for Western Digital’s and save a few bucks. But I also liked the design of Toshiba’s better than WD’s.
In short, I’m very satisfied with this item.
H. Yoneda
March 25th, 2010 at 2:38 am
Very disapointed.
I purchased this portable HDD expecting a good and reliable product trusting on Toshiba brand. After one month of use, basicaly at home, for my surprise, it started to make some cliking noise and stopped transfering data. I always used it carefully and even though Toshiba says it has a shock sensor, I NEVER dropped it.
But the major surprise was to find out that Toshiba site say that it does not have a warranty and that they DON’T EVEN REPLY the e-mails I sent (3) asking a procedure to have it repaired since I can’t get the RMA to fix it.
I recommend all you not to consider Toshiba. I used some Western Digital and Seagate HDD for long time and they NEVER failed (although some friends had problems, they had them repaired for free).
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