With over 50 years of experience in hard drive technology and unrivaled quality standards, Toshiba portable hard drives provide a reliable and secure place for your files, wherever you go. Intuitively drag and drop files to and from your PC or laptop. Ready to use with Microsoft Windows and no software installation required. Powered by USB 3.0 technology, these portable hard drives are much faster than - but still compatible with - USB 2.0 devices, allowing for speedy transfer when organising your files. These devices are USB-powered and can be used with a single USB cable connected to a PC or laptop. item 5 Toshiba (HDTB420XK3AA) Canvio Basics 2TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0, B 5 - Toshiba (HDTB420XK3AA) Canvio Basics 2TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0, B 70. *), Canvio Basics hard drives are perfect for storing data, music, movies and pictures. High capacity storage in a conveniently compact, matt black casing.

What’s more, the hard drive also allows you to connect to older hardware, with USB 2.0 compatibility. Whether at your desk, or on the go, its timeless design with the matt finish means it’ll always look good. These devices are ready to use with Microsoft Windows and require no software installation, so it couldn’t be easier to start storing all of your favourite files. Put simply, Toshiba's 2TB Canvio USB 3.0 drive cannot be beaten (except by Toshiba's own Basics range) when it comes to affordability in terms of TB (Terabyte) per unit volume.Quickly transfer files with SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and store up to 2 TB of data on Canvio Basics external hard drives. Since it is USB-powered, you won't need a power connector to make it work, either. There's nothing headline-grabbing about its design and performance, but it will allow you to transfer oodles of bytes cheaply and quickly. This drive is great value for money if you want something small, with ample storage, that can slip in your back pocket, and has some interesting added features (Pogoplug, free online storage, backup application). As a side note, not surprisingly, Toshiba's bare drive costs about 25% more than its external version. That compares poorly with the Samsung SpinPoint M9T drive, released this year that has a higher platter density (three 667GB platters), four times the cache size (32MB) and is way thinner (9.5mm versus 15mm). The drive that Toshiba used is likely to be the MQ01ABB200 which was launched in 2013 it is a 15mm model that has four 500GB platters, a 5,400RPM rotational speed, 8MB buffer and an average seek time of 12ms/22ms in read/write. The Toshiba 2TB Canvio USB 3.0 drive performs more sluggishly than recent hard disk drives of similar capacities ( Seagate Wireless 2TB, LaCie Fuel 2TB) but not by a big margin (less than 10% in the PCMark 8 storage benchmark). Crystal Benchmark Writes: 118.3Mbps/306.92 IOPS.

Crystal Benchmark Reads: 119.5Mbps/142.85 IOPS.

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