Toshiba MQ01ABD 1 TB 2.5" Internal Hard Drive MQ01ABD100

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.

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!

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.

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

I had an old laptop that wasn't getting used anymore, I wanted to use it as something dedicated for my 3d printer set up. I didn't want to spend a lot of money on anything, especially since I already had an old computer. I powered it on and of course it wouldn't give me anything. I did a little troubleshooting and watched some YouTube videos and found the easy fix was a new hard drive. I ordered this, it came fast, and it was a great price, now my computer works again. Of course, it is slow, but I didn't want anything special, and this hard drive does exactly what I wanted from it. I would buy another one if needed in the future.

Do they put a timer in these things or what? I used this in a desktop (so it gets no mechanical shock, as it might in a laptop). The computer is protected by an APS surge protector. I use the computer roughly once or twice a week (not a lot of heavy use). And it died a few days after the 3 year warranty expired. Thankfully, SSD prices have come down since 2021; they seem to have bottomed out in 2023 and are up somewhat in 2024, but no more hard disks for me. BTW with the failed drive I tried tapping it (when it was off), freezing and thawing it, and tried connecting it to a different SATA port to see if the drive was Ok but the motherboard's SATA port died. No, the disk died.

Note: Dell Inspiron 22 3263 modelBefore you replace, create a recovery file. My hard drive (HD) was failing, so I was able to create a recovery file before replacing the HD. If you just replace the HD and turn it on, you'll get an error "No boot device found." You have to click on F12 as it begins to boot to have it run the reinstall from the USB, if you're using USB. If you have the windows and Dell utilities disc, then you'll select CD drive, so it begins booting from that point. I think some of the negative reviews saying the HD is faulty or junk has to do with user error in not following HD replacement instructions for their PC.