The Bottom Line: I do not advise buying this drive due to reliability issues. I saw others online also had problems. Who needs problems with a whole terebyte of data?

I bought the Toshiba 1TB drive because I've had good luck with other Toshiba components, and most reviews seemed positive for the drive. I have 8 other external USB drives and have had no problem, so I figured this would work well, too.

I bought it for $105 at BJ's and it installed easily. It has a status moniter program, but all it shows is the space used and available. This is no big deal and it added another icon to the toolbar.

After a day or so I found it would go offline about once a day, removing itself from my hard drive list. It would only reappear if I turned it off and on again. This occurred whether it was in use or not.

Yesterday as I was updating iTunes files on the drive it suddenly wouldn't update the files. iTunes would update fields, but the artwork wouldn't save. Finally I tried playing the songs, and iTunes reported that they couldn't be found.

I found in Windows Explorer that the drive looked like there were no files in any folder. The folder structure was there, and the hard drive reported space was occupied by files, but they couldn't be seen by the PC. Again, powering it off and on again restored the files.

This is unacceptible. I will be returning the drive.