This is a legacy design hard drive spinning at 4200RPMs. Used ones on Ebay go for a reasonable price and hence make a great replacement hard drive if you are trying to revive or upgrade an older laptop which uses the IDE interface. Remember, this drive will not work in recent model laptops which use a SATA type interface. Therefore, be sure to do some research to ensure you are buying the correct type of drive for your application. There are benefits to using drive like the Toshiba MK 6021GAS. Biggest one being lower power consumption. This drives consumes less power than those spinning at faster speeds like 5400 or 7200 RPMs. Another benefit is that your laptop will run relatively cool with one of these 4200RPM drives and if you have a marginal battery, than this drive will help you get a little more run-time out of your laptop. On the downside, slower drive usually means a longer start-up time when you first turn the computer on. Some people suggest putting the computer in stand-by or Hibernation mode instead of shutting it off completely. This helps you circumvent the long boot-up time. Thank you for reading and I hope this review helps you select a product which is best suited for your needs.Read full review
I bought this hard drive for my nephew's Dell laptop, which crashed with a LOT of papers on it for his college classes. It fit and performed perfectly !! Luckily I had cloned the old drive about a week before it crashed out on him. He said it "performs faster than ever now....and loves his laptop once again. HOORAH !! I have to say that his was one of the simplest HDD swaps I have ever done, great quality and easy setup. If you need a quality hard drive replacement, I would highly recommend the Toshiba Hard Drives.
Hi community: This product is from Japan. OK not China. The Japanese have learned that these products sell better when quality controls have been developed and adheared to in electonic components. I bought this hard drive with a Sony VAIO laptop computer which was used and had another gents information still on the drive. An active virus or utility was used which corrupted the hard drive so that eventually the stored data would be destroyed. Even in death the Toshiba 60GB was running efficiently and effectively. In short it is a fine product and one that I bought after refurbishing. I am still having problems uploading my operatating system on my repaired Sony laptop, I only with that product support was better for these Japanese products. Thanks
Shipping was fast and the hard frive was well packaged. Performs as it should. Perfect replacement for my Korg D16 hard drive.
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After I received it I tried it, it works very well. But I need more time to find out how long it can last.
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