The hard drive is small, fast and especially quiet. It was easily the laptop (Win7), recognized on Fantec Media Player and the Samsung TV SE8090. In operation is only a slight noise to hear what is important to me personally, because I had previously the WD Elements Portable (1TB) brought that was noticeably louder and therefore also declined. The Toshiba hard drive is well made, all edges are rounded, the surface is matt and therefore no magnet for fingerprints. The blue LED is not too bright when connected to TV or Media Player will light the way white. When not in use, the hard drive goes after a few minutes of alone out (not hear more noise and the blue LED turns off), even though the PC or laptop on which it is connected, yet does not at each ext .... what. HDD is the case. Copy speeds of eg 8GB Video mkv from laptop on the Toshiba USB 3.0 was, with an average of 100MB / s. The USB cable that is has connectors only measured 44.5 cm long, many it my was too short, I personally think it's just right. From me there is a strong buy recommendation.