Just a little positive feedback

Hi all!
I've sent this to Toshiba already but I could only ever find tech support submission which this doesn't really fit into. I don't know where else to post it and since I took the time to write it I figure I might as well put it here. If someone knows the proper place for this please feel free to share.
Dear Toshiba,
After purchasing my new Aspire One netbook I ran into a predicament. This unit has the colossal capacity of an 8GB SSD hard drive which lead me to the conclusion that I needed an external hard drive to supplement my new laptop. After doing some research I promptly went out and bought your 500GB Portable External Hard Drive. I then loaded up everything of value to me from my desktop computer and left for a 6 month relocation to the other side of the world (New Zealand). Sans the information held in the cloud, my entire digital life (University work, photos, videos, emails, music) is held on this small piece of technology.
Within a week of arriving in the very mountainous and beautiful land of Queenstown, New Zealand; I pulled my laptop to the side to show a friend a comical image of myself in a top-hat and this sudden movement liberated the USB cable from the unit. Not normally an issue; however at the time I was perched on a small ledge atop a 10 meter very steep slope which ended in a nice big slab of concrete. As I watched it all fall away into what I assumed was certain and complete destruction I took solace in the fact that I knew the originals were still safe and sound on my desktop computer. It didnt take long for me realize, much to my dismay, that those originals were now on the other side of the world with no viable way to retrieve the hundreds of GBs worth of data (relatively slow internet speed and 3GB monthly transfer cap from my ISP here). If that were not enough I counted the hours of work I had put into a project which was located solely on my portable HDD.
I decided to find my way down and survey the damage but I had very little hope for resurrecting my handy dandy repository of digital info. Much to my surprise, after a quick brush-off and reinsertion of aforementioned USB cable, I found the entirety of the information to be intact and working at full capacity.
So Im writing simply to say how incredibly pleased I am that your product tumbled, slid, and eventually smashed its way to seemingly certain death and yet lived to talk about it. When I soon decide to upgrade from this laptop I will be going with a Toshiba as I know if your laptops are even half as durable as your external hard drives, it will probably outlive me.
Thanks for reading,
Nathan Rooke

Thank you Nathan for this interesting story. :)

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