Review on Toshiba HDWL120XZSTA L200 2TB Internal Laptop Hard Drive - 5400 RPM SATA 6Gb/s, 128MB Cache, 2.5" 9.5mm - 2000GB Bare/OEM Drive by Hassim Rambli ᠌

I use a week. I bought it for a stationary (desktop) computer as a quiet, cold non-system drive. The computer itself is very quiet, so I wanted a quiet hard drive, but the toad presses to buy an SSD (hard drives of this volume now cost inadequate money). Therefore, the choice fell on this hard drive. The reviews write that it crackles - yes and no. If you use it in a metal box or "hard" fix it on the metal cover of the system unit, then yes, you can hear it when reading / writing. But if you use rubber dampers, then it will become inaudible at all. But on heating, everything is not so smooth. At rest, the temperature is normal, in the region of 35-37 degrees (t in the room is 26 degrees). But as soon as you start actively writing / reading something, this HDD heats up . up to 49 degrees! And this is in a desktop computer, where the cooling is better than in a laptop! After the read/write operations stop, the temperature drops to normal in about 10 minutes. In my life, I have observed such heating in a 2.5" HDD only in ST9250610NS - a server 15 mm hard drive at 7200 rpm. I can assume that the reason is SMR - technology of tiled magnetic recording . . but summarizing current experience, I can say that this drive in a laptop is suitable ONLY for "cold" storage, without any heavy tasks like torrenting. After the purchase, I immediately checked the surface with the Victoria program - everything is within the normal range (see screenshot). Let's see what happens in a year. If anything happens, I'll ate my review.