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Toshiba 5TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200rpm, 128MB Cache, 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive (PH3500U-1I72)

by Toshiba
211 customer reviews
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List Price: $399.99
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5TB
  • Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) Technology
  • Tunnel Magneto-Resistive (TMR) Recording Head Technology
  • Native Command Queuing (NCQ) Support
  • Read/Write cache for increased performance 128MB Cache
  • Low power consumption with adaptive power modes and Serial ATA DIPM
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Product Description

Capacity: 5TB

Intelligent Serial ATA Interface

Product Details

Capacity: 5TB
Product Warranty: For warranty information about this product, please click here [PDF]
  • Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 4 x 1 inches ; 1.6 pounds
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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  • ASIN: B00OP2PKH2
  • Item model number: PH3500U-1I72
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (211 customer reviews)
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    • Product Warranty: For warranty information about this product, please click here [PDF]
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: October 20, 2014

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From the Manufacturer

Leading Innovation

Toshiba's Desktop 3.5 inch internal hard drives provide a convenient and reliable way to upgrade every major brand of desktop computer. We combine our proven and reliable hard drive technology with a Serial ATA interface to provide increased performance, capacity and compatibility (1).


Upgrade Your PC's Potential

Grow from the inside out

Your collection of videos, movies, pictures, music, letters, and spreadsheets is growing by the minute. When you’re ready to take some of the pressure off your PC’s hard drive, consider upgrading with a new solid state drive or traditional SATA drive offered in a range of capacities. You’ll be amazed at how much better your laptop or desktop computer will perform.

Matched for Most Any Computer

If you’re wondering whether these internal storage products will work with your PC—don’t. Standard SATA drives are compatible with virtually all brands of laptop or desktop computers(1). And SSD PC upgrade kits fit with most any major brand Windows-based PC2.

(1) Compatibility may vary depending on user’s hardware configuration and operating system

Product Features

  • Works with Serial ATA enabled desktop computers
  • Read/Write cache for increased performance
  • Low power consumption with adaptive power modes
  • Internal shock sensor and ramp loading technology to help protect your drive
  • Native Command Queuing (NCQ) Support
  • Compatible with Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows 7; Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9; Linux

Legendary Toshiba Quality

Backed by more than a century of innovation, Toshiba has been a worldwide leader in PC storage design and manufacturing for over 20 years. We test all of these products in the lab to help ensure they’ll perform right—right out of the box.

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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Solid... Fast... Grande storage...
By Richard Brookes on July 31, 2013
Size: 3 TB Verified Purchase
After a lot of review reading and research into larger capacity hard drives, I settled on this Toshiba because of the size to price ratio,low power consumption, and the 7200rpm spindle speed.

There seems to be a huge reliability problem with large 1TB plus drives on the market, I had a very hard time finding consistent good reviews on ANY manufacturer. I was seriously considering a Western Digital "Green" drive, to use in my Home Theater PC, but this was going to serve as my main operating system drive as well as storage, the slowish speeds concerned me. I found this Toshiba (yes it is a re-branded Hitachi) on sale, and most of the reviews seemed favorable, so I bought it.

I've had it for about 4 months, and it is getting close to full already, let me say this; the drive is fast, seemingly reliable, and I'm very happy with it. I got the retail box for the manufacturer's warranty, to be safe, but seems like a terrific drive. My system boots fast, has no problem reading and playing high def video, and it is QUIET, and according to the specs (I have no real way to test this) power friendly, which is what I need for a Home Theater machine.

Highly recommended product.
Thank you for reading my review.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
2 TB Hard Drive worked as advertised
By Steven Curtis on February 22, 2013
Size: 2TB Verified Purchase
I installed this hard drive into my PC and had little problem setting it up in Windows 7. I am using this as a media drive for my HTPC. The drive formats to yield 1.8 TBs of usable space. For those of you who are not familiar with the bit conversion - 1 Gigabyte equals 1,024 megabytes so you will always have less usable space than what the drive advertises. I still can load thousands of movies and songs.

This is a SATA drive and it does not come with a data cable so make sure you have one. I had to order an additional data cable as I have three SATA devices and my board only came with two cables. Also, make sure your power supply (PSU) has the appropriate SATA connector or you will have purchase a molex to SATA converter.

I wish I could endorse the durability and stability of this drive but I am reviewing due to Amazon's prompting only having owned the hardware for a month. I still would recommend this hard drive as it was inexpensive for the amount of data that it can hold.
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64 of 76 people found the following review helpful
Is this really a PH3400U-1|72 drive as advertised?
By Dutch on March 13, 2015
Size: 4TB Verified Purchase
This is my second drive as I sent the first one back, but I hope Toshiba will respond as I feel I have received a drive that I didn't intend to purchase. The label on the front of this retail drive states it's a 4TB, 7200rpm, 64mb Cache (not the 128mb that was advertised). The label on the bottom of the box lists the P/N: as PH3400U-1|72 and the S/N on the sticker matches the drive, however the P/N: on the actual drive is HDETR11GEA51 along with MD04ACA400. If you google these two numbers all you get is 64mb cache drives, not 128. See my pictures below. So TOSHIBA and AMAZON what is going on here????
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Toshiba Community Support says
March 21, 2015
Thank you for the review, Dutch, and sorry for the confusing labeling regarding the cache size of this drive.

The storage products team has ensured me that this is just a labeling error on the box which has been corrected. The MD04ACA400 part number is assigned to the bare drive and is used for sales to OEMs (device manufacturers who use this hard disk as part of systems they build and sell, such as PCs.) Before Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. sells these same drives in retail packaging, those retail packages are assigned a new part number, which is PH3400U-1I72 in the case of this particular drive.

Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the confusing label error.

UPDATE: I'm appending this original post of 3/21/15 on 4/8/15 to reiterate my original response that there was an error on earlier versions of the retail packaging and to add that the same error existed in documentation for the OEM part number of MD04ACA400, which was then duplicated on many websites -- thus the Google search results that seem to "confirm" the 64MB size but are themselves also in error.

The actual cache size of 128MB has now been confirmed by multiple parties in our Storage Products Division, as reported by our corporate office. I understand the credibility problem given the multiple layers of errors, but I can also assure you that the actual cache size is irrefutably 128MB.

Sorry for the documentation errors that created the controversy and confusion.
41 of 49 people found the following review helpful
Big & Fast & Big!
By Virgil Stone on April 23, 2013
Size: 2TB Verified Purchase
I have been in the communications field as a technician, engineer and as a Director of Operations & Technology Director for over 30-years. Though now twice retired, (Military & IT Business) I still build systems for myself, my friends and my family. I am very happy with the operational characteristics of the Toshiba Hard Drive. It is very quiet, it runs cool under heavy use, it serves A/V files to my XBox 360 and to 4 other networked Multimedia computers and like all SATA drives, it was very simple to install.

For a competant durability report, and as this is a recent purchase and installation, I can only go by the stated MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) ratings from Toshiba and outside sources and also state that I own and operate several other Toshiba hard drives. All of them are 5 to 6-years old and are in heavy use systems. So-far, I have not had a Toshiba Hard Drive failure (Knock-On-Wood).

This new 2 Tera Byta Toshiba hard drive is great. I am so happy with it, that I just ordered another one just like it. (I am gradually replacing my 12-14 500 GB Hard Drives with newer, faster, and larger capasity 1 TB & 2 TB drives.) I am using Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB drives for the boot drives with a 250 -:- 750 split partition and the monster Toshiba 2 TB drives for storage & A/V drives.

I remember many years ago in the late 80's when I bought what was then a "state-of-the-art" and very expensive 40 MB external hard drive with separate enclosure and power supply (For an Apple IIE) and all my friends told me it was a waste of money, "No One could every fill up a 40 MB hard Drive!"

Today while goofing off at [...] I downloaded just over 5 GB of public domain video and short films.

From KB to MB to GB to TB storage we go.Read more ›
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Quiet and fast
By Kevin Nicholls TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on February 1, 2014
Size: 3 TB Vine Customer Review of Free Product ( What's this? )
I've been using a Thermaltake 5G 5.0Gbps USB 3.0 SATA Hard Drive Docking Station to easily rotate backup disks for a while, and added this Toshiba to my rotation. My other drives are all Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 7200 RPM 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST3000DM001.

Since they cost roughly the same, I figured I'd offer some observations between the two:
1) The Toshiba seems to be quieter, and takes less time from spin-up to usefulness.
2) Write speed on the Toshiba seems slightly better -- which is interesting, since my dock can't hit the rated max throughput of either brand.
3) Read speed on the Seagate seems slightly better -- same as #2
4) The Toshiba drive doesn't seem to get as hot as the Seagate drives do.

Really, the two are so similar, if I had to choose one, I'd go with whichever one cost less. In my book, that's pretty good for Toshiba.
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