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Only 2% of hdd has been 'sanitized. This is a poor decision by seagate and the last drive i buy from them. This drive requires you to download seagate formatting tools to use more than 2tb of it. Already has 1024 bad sectors and could not be detected ...  Read More

Toshiba needs to step up their game and ensure their products are arriving safely. Given how frail these drives are, it's likely sustained damage due to poor packaging.

The customer service guys are so dumb, all of them couldn't help me and they kept redirecting me to other numbers. Run hot, noisy and have zero reliability.

It is actually older than the drive i'm going to replace by two years. They were manufactured two days apart- in april of 2018.

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Quality


It was a perfect fit and i'm very pleased with the product.


Prompt and the product came in as expected.


I plan to replace my toshiba with the wd red in my daily driver build.

Shipping


It was exactly what i needed, it runs great and seems fast enough for my mother in law :)

Packaging/appearance


They arrived quickly, and were very carefully packaged, with individual packaging for each drives, along with bubble-wrap and a...  Read More

Competitiveness


Toshiba drives (like hitachi) seem to be a cut above most of the competition.


I have four toshiba drives running in a synology nas for 5+ years without a single issue.


The only reason why we replace it was to gain more storage by shucking a seagate 8tb external.


For $30 more, you can get a 4tb wd red.

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  • This product had a total of 1,995 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 1 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I bought this one because an ssd it is harder to recover the data when they break and they go bad just like a hard drive


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Noise honestly its not something i take into consideration


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    However i cant hear them even during heavy disk operations


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Also dont store both in the same place


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    So you can say ive done my research the hard way


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    For my money its chrysler and toshiba


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The only drives that have become paper weights are western digital and seagate


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Stay away from wd and seagate

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