Toshiba MQ01ABD 1 TB 2 5 Internal Hard Drive MQ01ABD100

Was looking to upgrade my Eufy Homebase 3 storage and found this 1 TB hard drive on Amazon at a great price. Had no issues with formatting it, pretty much plug and play. This will allow me to store more camera events, will probably purchase another one just to have for a backup hard drive. Read more

This HDD works great in my MacBook Pro. While most people covet SSDs, I want the large capacity of SATA drives and this 1TB 2.5" HDD fits the bill (it's a true 1TB drive with 999.86GB of usable space AFTER formatting ... in the past I've bought 500GB drives that barely gave me 470GB of space and other 1TB drives that gave me 975GB or less of space). The process: (1) I used the cloning software SuperDuper! to make a [bootable] copy of the HDD on a Mercury Firewire Drive. That's the longest part of the operation. (2) I rebooted the Firewire as the start-up disk to make sure it was bootable - and indeed it was. (3) I shutdown the MacBook Pro, removed the bottom screws (a couple of minutes), and once the cover is off there are only two screws to remove (a retaining bar) that allows you to remove the HDD. A quick swap, screw the bottom enclosure back on, boot-up and you're good-to-go. (4) Next thing: just copy your bootable backup to this new Toshiba (much quicker, about 33% of the time, than the initial back-up). Once completed, just shutdown and reboot without the Firewire Drive connected. The actual swapping of the HDD took less than 10-minutes (don't be afraid to do it yourself - don't pay someone else over $100 to do it for you). My old HDD was about 63% full - so maybe that's the reason - but this drive operates a bit faster than the OEM 500GB that I took out of it (no, I did not benchmark it but the speed increase is obvious). In summary, this SATA works great, was an easy replacement in my MacBook Pro, and the cost-vs.-capacity makes this a great "value" purchase. Read more

Hard drive exactly as expected. Easy to install in my old MacBook Plus. If you have a 256G MacBook and the disk is more than 90% full, you might find that it starts to get very slow. You should probably not update the OS even if you can because that might make is slower. 1. make sure that you have a time machine backup on an external USB hard drive. 2. make a recovery disk on a blank USB. (Make sure you can plug both the recovery USB and the time machine backup USB in at the same time.) You might have to download "Recovery Disk Assistant" from Apple to do that. 3. test that you can boot from the recovery disk USB by restarting you MacBook and holding down the "Option" key. That shows you the available recovery options. You should see your hard disk, a recovery partition on your hard disk (which you won't be able to use because you will remove it), the recovery partition on the USB and (on more recent MacBooks only I think) you will also see the option to connect to a wi-fi network and recover from Apple. The last option is OK if you are desperate but it may be slow and you will need your Apple ID and password. Choose your USB recovery disk. You will find Disk Utilities (that you will need to reformat your new hard disk), a link to restore from Time Machine, and Safari, so you can get help from the web. 4. If you are very confident of your backups, you may want to erase your hard disk now to destroy any sensitive information because you won't be able to do it once you take it out. 5. Shut down your MacBook, replace the old hard disk with the new one. Read a guide about how to do that on the web. You will need a small phillips head screw driver and a Torx T6 screwdriver. 6. Reboot from your recovery disk. 7. Reformat the hard disk. 8. Restore from time machine backup. 9. Done. Read more

Pros: - Worked at install time. - Item received matched description. Cons: - Died after 105 days. I give it 1 star for being a working drive when received. 105 day runtime is completely unacceptable regardless of the cheap price. Drive was installed in stable environment. Not subject to excessive vibration. Operating temperatures average 40 degrees. Clean steady power from good quality UPS. No excuse for the incredibly short lifespan of this drive. Could be that I just had bad luck and got a rare bad one. I did order another of the same as a backup which is running now. Time will tell if this second one performs better. I do think it is suspect that I purchased this drive in December of 2023 and the manufacture date on the drive is January 2018. Read more

Used it to replace my old hard drive in my HP. Fit exactly, easy to install, and works good. Read more

Good price for quality hard drive. Read more

I ordered this product to replace a failed hard drive in my old HP 14t-j000 Envy laptop from like 2013. I could have just scrapped the old laptop for cash and got a new one but I wanted to fix it because it held a special place in my autistic heart and love for inanimate objects. So I bought this cheap harddrive instead because I like a good deal. So far, it's been reliable and functioning splendidly. I'm impressed with the price range as well, very affordable. So far so good! Read more

I actually bought two of these drives. One for my PS3 and one for a portable HD that I put into a Sabrient aluminum case. I am a Mac user and I formatted both drives with my Mac to 32bit to accommodate the PS3, copying the existing HD content to one and then removing that HD and installing on of the new Tosh drives. I then uploaded the backup from the one Tosh to the newly installed Tosh and everything went perfectly and really quickly. The entire process was a couple of hours because I was moving about 150mb of data around. Following the install of the one Tosh in the PS3 I partitioned the other and formatted it to use on my android devices and four Macs. It is working great and I like that I can keep my sensitive data on a portable HD and a cloud backup and nothing is residing on network connected PC's that are unattended. Read more