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Top positive review
Toshiba HDTB410XK3AA Canvio Basics 1TB portable external hard drive USB 3.0 Black
March 27, 2019
Well the shipping was great. The box looked nice.
But......
That's where it ended. I read the small paper that it came wit. Shut off my computer connected to a unused USB port and started my computer. Then expecting something great. Nothing. It does not work. I'm bummed. Went for Coffee and I don't even drink Coffee.
Well I will re investigate tomorrow when I get back to work.
I was really looking forward to this working but I am now very disappointed in Toshiba.
Ok update today April 2 2019.
After searching on the web on the problem I found the answer and was able to download drivers and see the hard drive. It works pretty good and I wish it had come with drivers on it but apparently not.
All I had to do was go to the control panel, Then System, Then System Protection, Then System Properties, Then under Hardware select Device Manager then identify the USB (by unplugging and plugging in to notice it) then select it and update drivers and it started working!
That's All!!! Kind of a pain and I wish the seller had known this. I'm not the only person who had this problem.
But......
That's where it ended. I read the small paper that it came wit. Shut off my computer connected to a unused USB port and started my computer. Then expecting something great. Nothing. It does not work. I'm bummed. Went for Coffee and I don't even drink Coffee.
Well I will re investigate tomorrow when I get back to work.
I was really looking forward to this working but I am now very disappointed in Toshiba.
Ok update today April 2 2019.
After searching on the web on the problem I found the answer and was able to download drivers and see the hard drive. It works pretty good and I wish it had come with drivers on it but apparently not.
All I had to do was go to the control panel, Then System, Then System Protection, Then System Properties, Then under Hardware select Device Manager then identify the USB (by unplugging and plugging in to notice it) then select it and update drivers and it started working!
That's All!!! Kind of a pain and I wish the seller had known this. I'm not the only person who had this problem.
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Top critical review
Glacially slow. Returned it.
July 4, 2018
It shouldn't take several seconds to backup a 4-megabyte photo. So I recorded how long it took to write a thousand files, each containing 100 megabytes of random numbers. For comparison, I did the same thing on the old Acorndata drive that this Canvio was bought to replace, and here are graphs showing the differences (mind the different vertical scales). Writing to the old Acorndata never took so much as 5 seconds, while writing to the Canvio took over 20 seconds about 1% of the time, and once took over 80 seconds. (The mean times were 2.8 seconds for the old Acorndata and 3.7 seconds for the new Canvio.) If you Google "why is my canvio so slow" (without the quotation marks), you'll see that other people have this same problem.
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May 25, 2019
Turned my desktop off and then plugged in to USB 3.0 …. desktop would stop booting and gave different messages on each startup attempt such as 'invalid format' 'drive contains no OS' ( why would it ? It's a new drive doing it's first bootup right out of its box ) Finally I tried a compromise. I didn't want to ignore the short install instructions but this Toshiba was not going to install if its plugged in to a turned off computer and they both start together. I check that it was shipped in ntfs format, then with the Toshiba not connected I let Windows boot only to the seashore startup page where it wanted my personal windows created pin .... thats when I plugged the Toshoba in and inserted my pin to the seashore pic screen . It booted, showed up in the 'this pc' check. I went straight to the 'Create System Image' routine and it worked fast and after checking its contents found the entire computer save was done . After seeing that the disk goes into a sleep mode I've decided to keep it plugged in until I once again need a computer turn off,turn on scenerio .... then will have to wait for the pin screen opening again before plugging the Toshiba in.
UPDATE: I'm too much a stickler for 'no surprise' electronics that I think I'm going to switch a 250 GB SSD Amazon sells … This Toshiba now add its existence into the computer device index TWICE which just bothers me to no end … I've tried everything to get rid of the phantom listing and couple- ing that error with the no startup until plugged in at a specific segment of the start up , I'm giving up and I ordered the Kootion 240 GB SSD and praying it will not be another 'adventure' of any kind ….
UPDATE: I'm too much a stickler for 'no surprise' electronics that I think I'm going to switch a 250 GB SSD Amazon sells … This Toshiba now add its existence into the computer device index TWICE which just bothers me to no end … I've tried everything to get rid of the phantom listing and couple- ing that error with the no startup until plugged in at a specific segment of the start up , I'm giving up and I ordered the Kootion 240 GB SSD and praying it will not be another 'adventure' of any kind ….
June 3, 2019
Albeit I am using a bit dated 2013 DELL Dimension XPS 5800 (Original Windows 8 prior to Windows 10 forced update) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz CPU but am getting NOWHERE near top USB 3.0 file transfer speeds. I am trying to back up video security cam video-files to this drive and am only able to get about 30 MByte/Sec file transfer rates. When moving hundreds of gigabytes of file date this can take about 1.5 hrs.
Annoying that there is not even a mention of the LED light color convention to warn if plugged into a USB 2.0 vs 3.0 port or using a slower cable (USB 2.0 in a 3.0 jack=2.0 performance). Had to go search the internet to find out that white LED on the drive means USB 3.0 connection. A blue LED on the drive means a USB 2.0 connection. It's cheap enough to be decent backup storage and "is what it is". Not a super high speed device but works. I am probably limied to a practical transfer speed between USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 due to heavy loading on my USB ports sharing the same motherboard controller chipsets (capturing live video at same time I am using the SATA hard drive and other USB devices.
Annoying that there is not even a mention of the LED light color convention to warn if plugged into a USB 2.0 vs 3.0 port or using a slower cable (USB 2.0 in a 3.0 jack=2.0 performance). Had to go search the internet to find out that white LED on the drive means USB 3.0 connection. A blue LED on the drive means a USB 2.0 connection. It's cheap enough to be decent backup storage and "is what it is". Not a super high speed device but works. I am probably limied to a practical transfer speed between USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 due to heavy loading on my USB ports sharing the same motherboard controller chipsets (capturing live video at same time I am using the SATA hard drive and other USB devices.
May 11, 2019
I had to return the first unit I purchased because it became un-accessible and would lock up windows explorer. I'm not 100% sure what happened but either it was bumped while on or the data reverted to RAW when my PC reset. I was able to finally format it by booting up in safe mode and performing a elevated prompt format. It took over 12 hours for the format to complete and then the unit worked just fine. I returned it anyway and got a new one. The second unit I received has worked just fine and has over 100gigs of pictures on it. If you plan on using this for image storage turn off indexing and you may need to change the settings in windows explorer to turn off thumbnails.
June 24, 2019
I needed a large capacity drive for backing up all my game files, but not the games themselves. My PS4 Pro insisted on formatting it for Extended memory before it would do anything else. The pop-up message was my data files could not be saved on the drive along with just about everything else if formatted for Extended memory. I canceled and disconnected the drive. Basically only games could be saved or installed. At some point I will need to move my games to an external drive, but none (including this one) is good enough. Will wait for a better mouse trap.
June 10, 2019
It is portable and in affordable price but all the Youtube reviews tell it has reliability issue and I did get error message already in only few months of using it (it worked after I unplug it and reconnected after few seconds). Definitely budget friendly product but if you have enough money go for something more reliable like SSD external drive.
February 25, 2019
I bought two of these. One is still going, but the other crapped out a month after the warranty expired.
In my experience, they work fine if you keep it in one spot. They're not really durable enough to be toted around. In other words, be very gentle with them.
In my experience, they work fine if you keep it in one spot. They're not really durable enough to be toted around. In other words, be very gentle with them.
February 3, 2019
I received this in 2 days using Prime. It is small, thank goodness. And I don't see myself filling it up. That is, unless I take lots of pictures. Unfortunately, I am not quite sure how to make it work with my iview tablet. Once I figure it out, I'll change my review.
June 23, 2019
I first copied a large number of files from my PC to the external hard drive.
I then tried to copy 2 ~60 GB files from my laptop to the external hard drive (to open on my PC). However, one file was missing and the other was corrupted (I couldn't rename or delete it).
I could solve the problem by reformatting the hard drive. However, I am now being a little more cautious (more likely to use for back-up, while original goal was expansion of hard drive to save primarily results). However, I also don't know whether this was just one fluke incident, but I am a little more concerned about saving contents there for 5+ years if I don't have them backed up somewhere else).
I then tried to copy 2 ~60 GB files from my laptop to the external hard drive (to open on my PC). However, one file was missing and the other was corrupted (I couldn't rename or delete it).
I could solve the problem by reformatting the hard drive. However, I am now being a little more cautious (more likely to use for back-up, while original goal was expansion of hard drive to save primarily results). However, I also don't know whether this was just one fluke incident, but I am a little more concerned about saving contents there for 5+ years if I don't have them backed up somewhere else).
July 17, 2019
I had a very hard time getting it formatted to use but now it seems to be working well. It doesn’t come with really any instruction and I was struggling with the tech support website before my boyfriends roommate noticed and came to my rescue. I probably would have figured it out eventually/found a helpful video on YouTube but I do wish it came with a little more written instruction than just “unwrap, plug-in, upload files.”
July 6, 2019
This is my 2nd portable hard drive from Toshiba and very happy with both drives. But the 2nd one came in a bad condition, the box looked like it was opened and the tape was not flush and sticking onto the box. I don't know if the drives quality integrity has been compromised but it looked bad right out off packaging
