toshiba hard drives

[montyrule]

is there anything wrong with toshiba hard drives because i was going to but a 3 tb version.

 

http://www.dabs.com/products/toshiba-3tb-sata-6gb-s-7200rpm-64mb-3-5--hard-drive-8TZL.html?q=3tb&src=16#

 

Have you had bad experiences?(like really bad) 

 

Had any good onces

 

[joelthezombie15]

fomr what ive heard, its hard to mess up a hdd and they are decent little hdd's but ive never used one myself. 

[Terminashunator]

Toshiba "Deathstars".

My dad's work had a 40% failure rate on them in typical non-IO intense workstations. 

[naca1227]

I've got a 7200rpm 1tb HDD from Toshiba and it's been fine for me. No problems. 

[TopplesS]

is there anything wrong with toshiba hard drives because i was going to but a 3 tb version.

 

http://www.dabs.com/products/toshiba-3tb-sata-6gb-s-7200rpm-64mb-3-5--hard-drive-8TZL.html?q=3tb&src=16#

 

Have you had bad experiences?(like really bad) 

 

Had any good onces

Being a Toshiba service tech I see these things die so freaking often it's not funny. Mostly on the laptops though, haven't really seen the 3.5" drives fall over.. Preferably I would go for a WD drive but if you're getting a deal on the Toshiba I would go for it. Just don't use it for anything other than data dumping and you should be fine!

[joelthezombie15]

Being a Toshiba service tech I see these things die so freaking often it's not funny. Mostly on the laptops though, haven't really seen the 3.5" drives fall over.. Preferably I would go for a WD drive but if you're getting a deal on the Toshiba I would go for it. Just don't use it for anything other than data dumping and you should be fine!

often times seagate are cheaper though. but either one you cant go wrong.

[AlwaysFSX]

I've broken the one and only Toshiba without even doing anything to it

[qwertywarrior]

i own a 2.5 1TB Toshiba HD

 

they are great !

[TopplesS]

often times seagate are cheaper though. but either one you cant go wrong.

Seagates make my jimmy's quake, not a fan

[UselessBread]

I think apple uses them. as having dealt with some macs I came across one to two broken ones.

[montyrule]

thanks guys

[TheRisingMyth]

Mine was DAO, it didn't last a fraction of what my Maxtor IDE drive was able to pull off. (almost 5 years and a whopping 666 days of uptime, incredible)

 

If you can find Seagate or Western Digital it would be much better. (and if you care enough about reliability, get a Seagate NAS, or WD Red, not great performers, but reliability hawks)

[mgsstar]

I have a 350gb (i think) Toshiba 2.5" laptop SATA II drive in a Toshiba laptop and it is pretty stable even though the laptop produces a large amount of heat.