Toshiba 2TB External HD £49 on Amazon

biebiebie

Very good value IMHO, cheapest according to camel camel.

Ordered already, going to use it for the xbox one.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00KWHJVCY/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1446765834&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX110_SY165&keywords=HDTB320EK3AA

run_Forrest_run

very good value considering I paid about €40 for a 1Tb Internal drive only last week on Amazon.

Etnies

Feck ye.. ordered

pm1977x

Will this work as extra storage for an Xbox 360?

wiz569

Ordered this myself earlier, chose free delivery as per normal, but estimated delivery date showing as 24th-26th November, anybody else get the same?

peckerhead

19 November for me. And it's GBP 50.22 with Irish VAT. Still pretty good for €72 or so, compared to €58.99 I paid for a 1TB Seagate in Argos last week...

wiz569

peckerhead wrote: »

19 November for me. And it's GBP 50.22 with Irish VAT. Still pretty good for €72 or so, compared to €58.99 I paid for a 1TB Seagate in Argos last week...

I went on live chat with them about it as it should not take that long, at least it never did till the last few orders for me, the agent admitted there was an ongoing problem with the "free delivery" option and offered priority delivery for Tues at a cost of 2.50 GBP ,anyway sorry for dragging the thread off topic OP

padyjoe

peckerhead wrote: »

€58.99 I paid for a 1TB Seagate in Argos last week...

Got your €5 voucher with it?

The Gardener

Thanks biebiebie, just ordered one, €72.90 including free delivery between the 20th & 21st of November.

simdan

Not a great drive. Toshiba is not the most reliable manufacturer. Spend the extra and buy a western digital. Much lower failure rates.

kingtut

simdan wrote: »

Not a great drive. Toshiba is not the most reliable manufacturer. Spend the extra and buy a western digital. Much lower failure rates.

Have to agree, Toshiba has a poor track record.

biebiebie

simdan wrote: »

Not a great drive. Toshiba is not the most reliable manufacturer. Spend the extra and buy a western digital. Much lower failure rates.

Hmm. This is my personal take on the Tosh vs the WD Elements 2TB for £68.

You can take this with a pinch of salt, it's not exactly scientific, but in my opinion a good comparison of real world first hand experience with these drives.

What I normally do for a quick comparison is to look at the percentage of 1 star reviews v. 5 star reviews.

For the Toshiba, there are...
813 x 5 star and 34 × 1 star .
That relates to
96% 5 star reviews
4% 1 star reviews

Next for the WD drive.
823 x 5 star and 29 x 1 star.
So we have
96.6% 5 star reviews
3.4% 1 star reviews

So for an additional 0.6% of 5 star reviews, you're forking out an additional £19 / €27

So with that analysis in mind, I'm happy enough with the Tosh and an extra €27 in my wallet to spend on another bargain!

☺

yoshimitsu

Ordered for the Xbox One... buying lot more games as digital downloads compared to before.
Must agree with quality comments and if this was for precious PC backups I would've spent the extra penny for a WD high end but given it's for games it should do.
By the way, my first order using the new Parcel Wizard + Amazon Prime combination. Let's see how long it takes...
Thanks OP

slave1

ALL drives will fail regardless of brand, best approach is multiple brands so you don't get stuck with bad batch, I'm storage hungry and have 18 drives, never had a Toshiba or Samsung failure, two Western Digital failures though...

Etnies

yoshimitsu wrote: »

Ordered for the Xbox One... buying lot more games as digital downloads compared to before.
Must agree with quality comments and if this was for precious PC backups I would've spent the extra penny for a WD high end but given it's for games it should do.
By the way, my first order using the new Parcel Wizard + Amazon Prime combination. Let's see how long it takes...
Thanks OP

Was free super saver delivery though?

salamanca22

slave1 wrote: »

ALL drives will fail regardless of brand, best approach is multiple brands so you don't get stuck with bad batch, I'm storage hungry and have 18 drives, never had a Toshiba or Samsung failure, two Western Digital failures though...

Had 3 Toshibas and 1 samsung die on me. 0 WD deaths and more than I can count on both hands seagate failures. This is in the past 3 years.

ofcourse each brand has different grades of hard drives, the cheapest being the least reliable.

Thargor

If anyone sees a decent 1 TB portable, the kind that will power and data off one USB please post it, looking for a cheap but good one urgently thanks.

ronanc1000

Thargor wrote: »

If anyone sees a decent 1 TB portable, the kind that will power and data off one USB please post it, looking for a cheap but good one urgently thanks.

Id recommend the 2tb above. Excellent value.

Etnies

salamanca22 wrote: »

Had 3 Toshibas and 1 samsung die on me. 0 WD deaths and more than I can count on both hands seagate failures. This is in the past 3 years.

ofcourse each brand has different grades of hard drives, the cheapest being the least reliable.

By sounds of it, its the way the drives are being treated that's the problem to have that amount of failures.

Edit : NVM found it.

salamanca22

Etnies wrote: »

By sounds of it, its the way the drives are being treated that's the problem to have that amount of failures.

Edit : NVM found it.

You would be wrong. I take care of my hard drives as they are my business. I have over 50 hard drives right now spinning and about 5tb in SSD storage.

Chimichangas

Will it work well to record/ function as a TV USB?

jpb1974

an ongoing problem with the "free delivery" option

Apologies in advance, but does anyone know exactly what the problem is with free deliveries?

I've had several problems with Amazon deliveries in recent months (deliveries supposedly disappearing) and was curious to know if there's something specific going on behind the scenes that Amazon are aware of.

wiz569

jpb1974 wrote: »

Apologies in advance, but does anyone know exactly what the problem is with free deliveries?

I've had several problems with Amazon deliveries in recent months (deliveries supposedly disappearing) and was curious to know if there's something specific going on behind the scenes that Amazon are aware of.

Same here m8, I'm not sure what the problem is but there is definitely something up, any time I ordered from Amazon using the free delivery option I would always get a delivery estimate of approx 7-10 days, but the past three times it has been at least a 3-4 weeks, and one of those never arrived,

IMHO, I think they've changed delivery method, as the last time there was a couriers name on the dispatch email which I never noticed before

Fiskar

Chimichangas wrote: »

Will it work well to record/ function as a TV USB?

Yes, should do, bought a 2 TB Seagate for 60 Gbp for my Sony Smart TV and it works well, have a 500 GB on my Pan for last years and no issues. The new HDD is recording well and i have watched recordings despite Sony not providing instructions on how to watch recordings!

gline

Are the estimated delivery times accurate for free shipping?

biebiebie

gline wrote: »

Are the estimated delivery times accurate for free shipping?

I'd imagine they are. From my own personal experience Amazon usually deliver before the estimated date. Perhaps they over estimate the delivery dates and then customers aren't wasting their time chasing up "late" deliveries.

wiz569

gline wrote: »

Are the estimated delivery times accurate for free shipping?

Yes they usually are spot on tbh

gline

Cool, thanks for the replies. I Just ordered one today, the difference between free and standard shipping was 2 days for an extra 10eur, so I chose the free option.

Xcellor

Of topic a bit but i find those usb 3 connectors very easy to bend causing bad contact and leading to drives powering up powering off... Maybe contribute to drives failing sooner than expected.

Ill prob buy this but will not move it.

Panrich

Bought one. Thanks OP.

5star02707

was about to post this but then thread was already created. Ya delivery should only be between 3-5 days but somehow it is 7-10days for me? Can only test when the drive arrives as how reliable it is. Hoping for this drive to be good!

ozozo

bought one of this early summer around €100 on amazon.es. had no issues with it (yet), so purchased another one

ozozo

bought one of this early summer around €100 on amazon.es. had no issues with it (yet), so purchased another one

ordered on Friday 6th, delivery details:

Your estimated delivery date is:
Friday, November 20, 2015 -
Saturday, November 21, 2015

getoffthepot

Ordered, thanks

5star02707

Xcellor wrote: »

Of topic a bit but i find those usb 3 connectors very easy to bend causing bad contact and leading to drives powering up powering off... Maybe contribute to drives failing sooner than expected.

Ill prob buy this but will not move it.

Any idea does micro usb still work? (ie the cable android phones have)

Like would it be allowed to transfer files? cheers

murphyebass

Ordered this today. Thanks for the heads up. Was thinking of buying one for the last while.

5star02707

anyone got theirs delivered yet? it's going to be a week where the status is preparing to dispatch? how long does this status normally changed?

ozozo

5star02707 wrote: »

anyone got theirs delivered yet? it's going to be a week where the status is preparing to dispatch? how long does this status normally changed?

I just received mail saying that the item is dispatched and estimated delivery is Nov 16th.
(ordered on Friday 6th)

5star02707

ozozo wrote: »

I just received mail saying that the item is dispatched and estimated delivery is Nov 16th.
(ordered on Friday 6th)

if you go to amazon uk what does your order status say?

still no email for me, ordered the same day as you 6th Nov

ozozo

5star02707 wrote: »

if you go to amazon uk what does your order status say?

still no email for me, ordered the same day as you 6th Nov

It says Dispatched and Arriving Monday.

marcbrophy

Ordered. Thanks OP!

Gonna pop mine out of it's shell and use with PS4

gline

Ordered saturday. Says il recieve it tomorrow

styron

marcbrophy wrote: »

Ordered. Thanks OP!

Gonna pop mine out of it's shell and use with PS4

No SATA

biebiebie

That a pity for PS4 owners.
Will still be perfect for the Xbox One though, so if you bought it for that reason then you're on the pigs back.

Mine's also on the way. Should help speed up game loading times somewhat

Agent Smith

5star02707 wrote: »

Any idea does micro usb still work? (ie the cable android phones have)

Like would it be allowed to transfer files? cheers

Micro USB will work, but it wont be at usb 3.0 speeds

5star02707

Agent Smith wrote: »

Micro USB will work, but it wont be at usb 3.0 speeds

thanks yah was hoping for that even at 2.0 speed is fine as long as i can transfer file with micro usb cable Cheers!

gline

I actually got mine today, very impressed with shipping time. Product looks great, cant wait to try it.

5star02707

gline wrote: »

I actually got mine today, very impressed with shipping time. Product looks great, cant wait to try it.

let us hear how you got on once tested. still have to wait till next week for mine.

biebiebie

@gline
You got it before the OP so! Haha!
Have you got Amazon Prime, or was it just standard delivery?

gline

biebiebie wrote: »

@gline
You got it before the OP so! Haha!
Have you got Amazon Prime, or was it just standard delivery?

It was just free shipping I opted for, and I dont even know what Amazon Prime is haha, I havent used Amazon in years.

Happy with this drive, its really small and silent. Ran for 20 minutes continuous writing and it didnt heat up at all. I was running the copy over a network, so I havent tested the top speed of it yet, but speed wasnt the reason for buying. One bad thing is, the usb cable supplied is really short, like 0.3-0.5m, so I had to order a longer one.

gline

Top speed 80-100mb/s over usb 3,copying from a raid0 system. Well worth the price. Thanks OP