Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200rpm 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive

Reviews

Marco

It was initially subjected to a burn-in period using the linux utility 'badblocks'. Seagate - the Fiat of the HDD world - 2 years and the doors fall off!

Captain Cretin

As a reference, I bought this 17 months ago for £61. In an experiment on my system, I found that >2TB drives don't even appear in the WinXP-32 Disk Management screen. If you just want something to cram all your files on, this works perfectly, especially if complemented with an SSD for your most used programs and games.

きんぐ

Screenshot is attached. T. This is something older Windows versions don't understand. Because drives and firmware sometimes change, I should specify mine.

Nik

Partitioning comments---------------------The tool I used for partioning this drive was 'gdisk'. When it was accessed, it would see continuous stress for a few hours at a time. Performance and Noise=================After 6 months of use, I recently tested this drive's performance under Linux Mint 17.

JavChz

This latest will be to replace yet another Seagate drive that is dying. In a GUI environment, 'gparted' is another way to partition the drive. Then reboot back to Windows and let it format the partition(s) that you already created.

Amazon Customer

It's not annoying, although it does take some getting used to, because at first you might think the drive is dying or something. Under Windows, note that 3TB drives (anything > 2TB) cannot be properly used with 32-bit Windows XP or older versions. Status BAD, backup and replace" - hmm. That took 48 hours of continuous stress to complete, which it did with no errors.

Harmonyzer

Those sizes will work fine. No "Intellipark"============I do not believe this drive has any auto head parking behavior. >2TB drives might work with patched versions of Vista, but I don't know.