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Toshiba 1 TB USB 2.0/eSATA Desktop External Hard Dive PH3100U-1EXB | 
| Brand: Toshiba
Category: CE
List Price: $159.99
Buy New: $85.00
as of 9/10/2010 03:34 CDT details
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Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 1989
Color: Blck/Silvr
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Hard Drive Size: 1
Size: 1 TB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 6.8 x 1.3
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MPN: PH3100U-1EXB
Model: PH3100U-1EXB
UPC: 883974254644
EAN: 0102646041772
ASIN: B002HWRK66
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| Features:
| | Capable of storing up to 200,000 digital photos, or 250,000 digital music files, or 380 hours of video. | | | Full system backup and recovery (including attached internal/external drives). | | | Internal dampening system for shock protection. | | | Dual Connectivity: USB and eSATA. | | | Password protected backup encryption. |
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Product Description
Toshiba's Desktop External Hard Drive offers you both extra storage space, and a comprehensive yet easy-to-use data backup and sync solution. The Toshiba 1.0 TB Drive can handle even the largest digital libraries - it can store up to 200,000 photos, or 250,000 music files, or 380 hours of video. With just a few clicks you can create a digital safety net to help protect files on your computer or other storage devices. Our dual connectivity design lets you choose between the USB interface or the faster eSATA interface for your data transfer needs. A built-in On/Off switch allows you to power down your drive when not in use to save energy. The slim design and small footprint help save your desktop space both at work and at home. The Backup software lets you back up your entire system (including attached storage devices) or specific file types (e.g. music files) on any internal or external drive attached to your system. The powerful Restore feature allows you to quickly restore files from any point in the backup history. You can even restore files based on selected criteria, such as name, date, and file extension. Bi-directional synchronization helps keep files on two sync targets up-to-date, no matter which target has been modified. For added convenience, you can schedule your backup and sync tasks to automatically run at your desired day and time. The Drive Monitor will monitor your Toshiba drive and let you know when it is getting full. These software features are preloaded in your Toshiba drive and run directly from the drive without requiring installation on your computer.
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Nice drive with ESATA and USB September 7, 2010
xeno
I bought this drive specifically because I was looking for one with both ESATA and USB 2.0 connections for under $100. I bought it as a backup drive, and I can see that if you purchased this as a "performance" drive you would be disappointed a bit. However, it suits my purposes great, and is fast in transferring files. Some things to keep in mind:
1. Yes, as other reviewers mentioned, you need to format it to NTFS.
2. The sleep function seems to be an option that you can install via software, as described in the manual. I guess other reviewers may have installed the optional software and then not understood what was the consequences of it.
3. I couldn't find any support pages for this drive on Toshiba's site. It seems they have a newer model available now (the Canvio), with a few more bells and whistles, but it doesn't have ESATA.
This drive works well as a backup drive, if that's what you are looking for. If you are looking for a drive with great backup tools and an easy interface that will walk you through step by step, then don't buy this one. I would just leave those things on the CD.
 This drive is criminal, it has stolen hours of my life that I will never get back. August 11, 2010
M. Place
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
One star is way too high for this product. I made the mistake choosing to backup my files instead of just copying them over. They now exist on the hard drive and are completely out of reach from any of the 6 computers I use. They are.RIM files which are not recognized by any prgram other than the Backsoft garbage that came with the unit. Even it will not restore the files I attempted to save. I hate this drive so much that I am light headed as I type. It is a struggle not to use the numerous amount of swear words on the tip of my tounge while writing this. In addition, I have spoken with Toshiba 4 times and their employees could not be less familiar with this product if they tried. Worthless is a genourous overstatment regarding anyone at a Toshiba 800 number. When a previous reviewer mentioned that they are buying another hard drive as I gift, it dawned on my that it would be a great gift for someone that I hate and want to inflict mental and time wasting hell on.
destroyed my music and videos August 10, 2010
Braylon Vaughn Gurnell
Ever since I put my music on this hard drive all of my music skips and my movie files are all corrupted.
 Great-Looking Piece of Plastic / Horrible Hard Drive July 27, 2010
Gilgamesh (New Jersey)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A friend of mine purchased this drive a few days ago, and after fiddling around with the Toshiba 1 TB USB 2.0/eSATA Desktop External Hard Dive PH3100U-1EXB for far longer than I care to admit, I realized that the disk was corrupted, so it had become a useless lump of plastic. In addition, the backup software (it only made a successful backup on the first day) is too basic to be useful. How disappointing.
Toshiba makes good looking drives. That's about the only good thing I can say about it. We returned the hard dixk to the local box store and got a Seagate FreeAgent Desk 1 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive ST310005FDA2E1-RK (Silver) instead. What a difference!
The Seagate software is easy to use, yet has plenty of options for how to back up the files, and (most importantly for me) it saves the files in the same way that they appear in your computer. For some reason, Western Digital (another horrible software experience) and Toshiba (the first day that it worked) completely reorganize the files so that they are virtually inaccessible. The information is in there, but good luck finding it. I don't know why manufacturers do this, but it is very frustrating if you ever want to use the drive outside the home.
I recommend staying away from this drive. Maybe we just had a lemon. Who knows. But, so far I have had great luck with the Seagates (I have a 500 GB portable one as well).
Speedy, reliable external desktop drive with eSata July 15, 2010
Gadgester (Mother Earth)
I bought this 2TB desktop external drive to take advantage of the eSata/USB combo port on my Toshiba Satellite A665 laptop (with an i7 quad-core processor). I use this drive to back up over 500GB of files, ranging from JPEG picture files to large video files.
The first thing I did when I got the drive was to reformat it as an NTFS drive -- which I highly recommend everyone do the same. There're only two files on the drive, an autorun.inf file and an icon file for the drive. Just save them on your desktop, right-click the drive icon in Windows Explorer, and choose format. NTFS is the only format you can use under Vista or Win7. Just accept the default parameters and do a quick format. In my case, it literally took just 2 seconds! With NTFS, you'll be able to store files bigger than 4GB, something you can't do with the factory-default FAT32 file system.
The drive was otherwise super easy to set up. Because this is a desktop external drive, not a portable drive, it requires the included AC adapter. Unlike many other external drives, this one has a power button (in the back), so no need to unplug the power when you're not using the drive, as with drives from Seagate and Maxtor, among others.
The drive is super-fast over the eSata connection. Note that only a USB 2.0 cable is included; I bought my eSata cable at Best Buy. Copying a big folder of over 200GB files, a mix of big and small files, yielded an average write speed of 65MB/sec. Wow, that's really impressive, isn't it? Of course, nowhere near the 300MB/sec (3Gb/s) theoretical speed of eSata, but first, the Toshiba uses a 3.5" 5,400RPM drive, so throughput is limited by the spin speed, and second, I use it with a laptop, so I imagine there should be some speed gain if I used it on a fast desktop, speaking from experience with other external hard drives. Anyway, I'm happy with the speed, as it's 4 to 6 times what I used to get with USB 2.0 drives (on average).
Finally, I have had no problems whatsoever with my drive. It's quiet and stays cool. It also looks really stylish, and doesn't take up much physical desktop space. I own many other Toshiba drives and they've always been super-reliable under heavy use, so I imagine this drive will last me a long time, too -- even though the internal drive itself, in my case, is made in South Korea.
I highly recommend this drive to anyone needing lots of space but not needing a RAID setup.
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