The design is simple, hull black plastic looks solid and feels good to the touch. The rate seems low (34MB / s on average to a USB 3), but I have tested on a laptop so I can not say that the Toshiba is uniquely involved. One point of concern, noise "tic" probably head that seems to repeat frequently (400GB transferred at once). When it starts to get too common is that the hard drive is about to let go, I hope not. Otherwise it does not heat and is very quiet.