As a rule, portable hard drive offers the best over all value for data storage among currently available storage media. Toshiba Canvio is my favorite for its performance, convenience, and portability. There is low noise that is still lighter than transformer of an external hard drive. Transfer speed appears to leave something for desire. My two previous purchases of Toshiba Canvio 1 and 1.5 TB come with unopened package. The recent 3rd purchase, labelled as new, came without package, used cable, and dirty warranty papers.
This hard drive works great, I use it to free up space on my laptop by moving large phot and video files to it. I shopped around and others were selling for much more. I am very satisfied with the product as well as the price. I should also mention that the speed at which files transfer to this hard drive are faster than any of the older models that I have used in the past. It takes about 3 minutes to transfer approximately 5 gig!
I purchased 8 of these recently. I've only used one so far and it's working great. But I was a little concerned when I read the package because Windows 2000 is not in the list of supported software. But I reformatted the drive, (maybe even that was not necessary) --- but it works fine. These are very nice drives. I've also purchased some of the earlier versions of these Canvio drives. I have several 500gig and two 750gig that I've owned for at least a couple of years and they are still working fine also.
Great Unit, works great, easy to use, looks good, small enough to take any where, my wife uses it with out any problems. She loves it. Stores all pics, and videos she takes with her camera.
This hard drive has quite a bit of space: even enough for backing up a fairly full computer. Being portable makes so that you don't have to plug it into a wall outlet, so it is easy to use with a laptop. Overall, it is a great hard drive for almost any situation.
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