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.
Average Customer Rating:
2 out of 5(27 Reviews)
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5 of 27 (19%) customers would recommend this product to a friend.
Customer Reviews for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Review 1 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
1
out of 5
Powers on and off randomly,March 10, 2010
By Mikefrom Fort Lauderdale, FL
"I have two of these connected to computer. Sometimes they power on when the computer comes on, sometimes they don't. Sometimes after running for several hours, they just turn themselves off, even if the computer is still running, forcing me to turn them back on. I have missed many scheduled backups because of this."
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Tech Savvy
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One month to a year
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Review 2 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
5
out of 5
Awsome,March 6, 2010
By Mick
"Absolutely awsome. Great drive."
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Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
One week to a month
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Review 3 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
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1
out of 5
This product damaged my View of Toshiba,March 5, 2010
By RJP94114from San Francisco, CA
"When I first saw Toshiba selling 1 TB External Hard Drives, it was a no brainer based on my experience in the past with Toshiba that this was a good product and I bought it. I couldn't have been more wrong. This has been the most useless hard drive I've bought - shutting off after about 5 minutes of use or no use in the middle of doing things. To make matters worse, Toshiba had nothing on their site indicating they even sold the drive let alone any problem fix. This drive has sat on my shelf for 4 months now unused since I got it."
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Tech Savvy
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Review 4 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
2
out of 5
How to solve the problem with shutting down,March 3, 2010
By Bobfrom Irvine, Ca
"Hey guys I've had the same problem and thought about junking the drive. I've tried everything that is mentioned on this thread to no avail, but I think I may have stumbled into a moderate solution... Atleast for me. I download and started working with MediaMonkey for my massive library and ever since my drive doesn't shut down. It may have something to due with monitor my music folder constantly or something (not a techie), but it works for me. Kind of weird, but hope it helps. Just run MediaMonkey in the background and see if it works for you. I haven't tried the same thing with Itunes or WM, but it may work."
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Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
One month to a year
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Review 5 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
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1
out of 5
Not for a Mac,March 2, 2010
By jmfrom Fairfax, VA
"The suggested ways to get around the drive's sleep setting may work for a PC but don't work on a Mac."
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Tech Savvy
How long have you been using this product?:
One week to a month
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Review 6 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
1
out of 5
Don't,March 1, 2010
By Peterlawfrom West Chester PA
"On a MAC it locks up the system everytime it goes to sleep. It seem that it is telling the computer that it is ejecting from the system then does not complete the process. hence it locks up the system requiring a restart."
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Tech Savvy
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One week to a month
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Review 7 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
2
out of 5
TOSHIBA 1 TB EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE,February 23, 2010
By bobby televisionfrom FALLS CHURCH, VA
"I've had the drive for a little over a week now. After a shaky start, it's performing very well as the backup drive for my Operating System. The first thing I did was convert the drive from FAT32 to NTFS; that action seemed to confuse the Backup software, but since the backup doesn't use disk imaging, I wasn't planning on using that software anyway. I also experienced the "disappearing" problem mentioned in so many of the reviews. My fix was this: - Right Click the Taskbar on the bottom of the screen. - Select "Properties". - Select "Customize" in the TaskBar menu. - If the two Toshiba icons display "Hide When Inactive", change them to "Always Show". - Select "Apply" on the way out of this menu."
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Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
One week to a month
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Review 8 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
3
out of 5
SOLUTION FOR UNWANTED SHUT-OFF,February 20, 2010
By bobby televisionfrom FALLS CHURCH, VA
"I noticed many complaints about the drive shutting off after 5 minutes. I had the same problem and here's what I did to overcome it:
-Right click the task bar at the bottom of the screen. -select Properties. -find the Notification Area and select "Customize". -find the Backup Software icon, highlight it, and select "Always Show" -do the same for the Toshiba Drive Monitor icon. -select OK, then Apply.
So far this has kept the drives from shutting down or disappearing from My Computer."
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Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
Less than a week
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Review 9 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
1
out of 5
Drive Sleeps/Not Mac Friendly,February 11, 2010
By Yocraigfrom USA
"This drive goes to sleep even while Im running apps that are on it. It also comes with a partition that contains the instructions and backup apps that I can't seem to erase. I tried two of the utilities but they crash on my Mac.
I suppose it would work as a backup drive that you didnt leave connected, but as additional online storage this drive should be avoided."
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Tech Savvy
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Less than a week
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Review 10 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
1
out of 5
Hard Drive,February 11, 2010
By S Baumbachfrom Boston, MA
"Unacceptable"
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Tech Savvy
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One month to a year
0 of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Review 11 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
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1
out of 5
Can't view files,February 7, 2010
By pwrblncfrom Las Vegas, NV
"I connected the hard drive to my desk top computer using a USB port and installed software as instructed. I then did a backup which went well. I can't view the files! It instructs to go to my computer then open toshiba HDD to view. Toshiba HDD does not exist in the My Computer files. I have searched everything. If I can't view the file on that hard drive, it is useless to me. Now that I have downloaded my entire computer on the silly thing, I'm afraid I can't send it back. Ouch!! Not happy here..."
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Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
Less than a week
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Review 12 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
4
out of 5
Toshiba 1TB external Drive,January 30, 2010
By Fredfrom Bostonn, MA
"If you are looking strictly for a backup drive, this drive is fine. Just took it out of the box, reformatted to NTFS, and copied data to it. It copied at approx. 1 GB/minute (Copied 42 GB in 43 minutes on the first pass). If you are looking for more than just backup (DVR copy, etc...) then look at other products. Did not use the proprietary software, just did a Copy/Paste to back up my files. Very quiet."
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Tech Savvy
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Less than a week
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Review 13 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
1
out of 5
great exterior, bad interior,January 21, 2010
By Cyraxfrom Milpita, CA
"It looks great, but it has serious issues with "sleep". If this device will decide to sleep (e.g. you dont use it for 5 mins or you've sent your PC to sleep) then the only way to wakeup this Toshiba disk is to power cycle it.
On Toshiba's support there is a "fix" that will remove VirtualCD partition and should make the disk to be Windows power management friendly ... but it only removes VirtualCD.
Pros: - looks great! - doesnt get hot (it has a nice "green" Samsung HD103SI drive inside) - eSATA and USB - you can get it quite cheap
Cons (only for USB connection - dont know about eSATA): - cant be woke up by Windows as all other drives - you have to power cycle it - goes to sleep even if you have an open document on this drive - Windows Explorer can hang up when the drive goes to sleep - and will hang till you wakeup the drive manually - annoying VirtualCD feature with a copy of Toshiba software (still you can remove it and loose all HDD content) - just a folder on the drive is usually enough - installs "AutoTask" software on any PC you plug the drive in without asking a user - there is no tool to configure or disable drive sleep time - the most useless bundled software ever - e.g. Monitor is just a primitive version of disk's "Properties" dialog in Windows
So it can only be recommended if you are going to use the disk only occasionally, like "plug in, copy a file, unplug". Otherwise - look for alternatives."
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Tech Savvy
How long have you been using this product?:
One week to a month
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Review 14 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
1
out of 5
I wish I got this much sleep!,January 11, 2010
By CCBfrom Castle Rock, CO
"Drive goes to sleep all the time, very poor. Returned ours for a credit."
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Tech Savvy
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One week to a month
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Review 15 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
1
out of 5
HD keeps shutting off,January 10, 2010
By Buddyfrom Buffalo NY
"The Hard Drive goes to sleep and disconnects by itself -- especially when I reboot my system. This is the 4th Hard Drive of my collection of external drives on my Windows 7 system. It's the only one with this problem."
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Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
Less than a week
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Review 16 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
1
out of 5
Toshiba 1.0TB External Hard drive Problem,December 20, 2009
By Boricua1from Pensacola,FL
"This Hard- Drive keeps shutting off. I tried to use it for all my music and during some of my gigs but it keeps shutting off, and cutting off the music. A True Embarrassment for me and my business"
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Proficient User
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Less than a week
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Review 17 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
1
out of 5
Bad drive w/annoying shutdown "feature".,December 18, 2009
By thepetefrom NYC
"In all my years of owning external drives, I've never been more frustrated and perplexed by a drive's behavior. After a certain amount of time, after being accessed, the drive just shuts down--completely. Not into sleep mode, it doesn't stay mounted, it just cuts all power. This makes *NO* sense what SO ever. I am so angry because this feature has cost me DAYS of work. I can think of NO scenario where a hard drive that automatically shuts down due to disuse would be a useful thing. I challenge ANYone to come up with a justification for such a feature.
I like Toshiba as a brand, I have a 320GB portable external drive I use all the time and love (I plan to buy another), but stay away from the desktop externals!! ARG! TOSHIBA I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!
Too bad I had already put hundreds of gigs of data on this drive before I started running into trouble with it. I have no place to transfer off the data while I return this to Best Buy. What's worse is that I'm doing this project for a friend and I feel like I've let him down by choosing a lame hard drive. ARG."
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Tech Savvy
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One week to a month
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.
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Review 18 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
3
out of 5
aSATA problem fixed,November 12, 2009
By nickname
"The fix (in my case) was to cut a tiny bit of the rubber back from the connector so that it fits slightly deeper into the socket. The concave curve of the case prevents the cable from properly seating into the socket. I trimmed about 1 mm back from each end and problem solved.! Disc works well now on eSATA port."
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Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
One week to a month
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Review 19 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
1
out of 5
Sleepy Hard Drive,November 4, 2009
By DiznyOrdizfrom Oakdale, MN
"This hard drive is great as far as noise, but it shuts off after 5 minutes of idle.
To fix this create and run this batch file. Run it each time you want to keep the hard drive active.
To create the file, open notepad and save the file as keepalive.bat on your c: drive.
(NOTE: enter [these] as specified information and remove the brackets)
@echo off [Toshiba HDD drive letter]: :start mkdir DELETE choice /c yn /t 120 /d y /m "Keep this window open or your hard drive will go idle and turn off." rmdir DELETE cls goto start"
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Tech Savvy
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Less than a week
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Review 20 for Toshiba 1.0TB Desktop External Hard Drive
Overall Rating:
1
out of 5
Dead on Arrival,November 3, 2009
By Retireefrom Chicago, IL
"The unit lit up when turned on, but the drive was not recognized on a PC or a Mac. No quality control any more?
Customer service is found via Toshiba's website or toll-free number unless you use the term "Acclaim" (which did not appear on the box for this item)."
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Proficient User
How long have you been using this product?:
Less than a week
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