Toshiba P300 High Performance 3TB Internal Hard Drive (Retail) 3.5 Inch SATA - HDWD130EZSTA

At the moment I have only had the Drive up and running since around mid January so it's early days. My initial impressions commenced with the fact that the Drive arrived in it's own Toshiba box properely suspended inside with polyfoam inserts complete with paperwork - I can't ever recall receiving a Drive before in it's own manufactures box - that alone was very impressive!To start with I put the drive in a remote USB 3 Caddy to check it out. Putting my ear against the caddy case to listen for any dubious sounds I was very surprised at just how fast the drive spun up albeit very quietly. Using EaseUS Free Partition Master it was very quickly partitioned into the 4 partitions it was replacing on an older drive. I couldn't be bothered with all that Data Transfer speed testing stuff so let it suffice to say that it seems plenty fast enough to me.So far Great Drive

If you want something with good storage and is reasonably fast and economical then this is a great buy. Its not going to compete with SSDs for speed but with the equivalent SSD storage costing around £259 this provides excellent storage at a fraction of the cost. I now have about 7 SSDs stored in various computers/laptops for speed and I use this for storage on a desktop. Cant fault it.Read speed 149MBs and Write speed 155MBs for those interested

Works perfectly with my OWC Mercury Elite Pro enclosure. I spent a lot of time researching what HDD to buy and settled on Toshiba after having read about their technical similiraities with Hitachi drives. People who use tons of external drives in their servers swear by Toshiba in terms of durability and quiet performance, both the things that I looked for in mine. This is a very quiet HDD and the sound that you can just about hear is far from intrusive. (No clank and rattle ever happens). Still, it's there, so if you want something totally quiet you'll have to go for a 5400rpm version. If you are looking for a HDD to use with your media player and you demand dead quiet performance don't go with this product but choose WD Red because there will be some background noise that might annoy you after a while. Otherwise, go for Toshiba it's very fast and efficient.

I love this HDD. I think I won't need a SSD because it is extremely fast. I know SSD is faster but it is not a problem for me because everything I do it takes nothing to do it. Worth the money!

I am on a budget so i went with this hard drive knowing its not exactly what i need but good enough to do the job. I will say the packaging was amazing. I was worrying how it would be delivered but pleasantly surprised when it arrived quickly and great packaging.

I'm glad amazon asks specifically about this item's thickness, it's exactly the quality I bought it for. It precisely matches the thickness of the hard drive bay in my computer case. If the thickness had been wrong it would have been loose, or tight. Or simply not fit in at all. It would have been useless. The width and length were exactly as they should be too. In all, a very satisfactory thick hard drive!

well i have had several of these drives and slowly they are all failing with only light use as storage back up drivesgets very hot and started clicking just out of warrantyseems to be the norm for these drivesso had three fail in just over 2 years with only 1 year powered on time on each drivecrystal disk info says it allwon't buy Toshiba drives ever again

Toshiba P300 3TB internal 3.5" HDDHDD arrived in its own packaging as shown in the product picture. No problems with installation and so far the drive has proved responsive and quite. Hard to say more and will update review if drive gives any problems.