Toshiba E05A100PBU3XS Canvio 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive – Black/Silver $129.99 $119.99
Posted by Editor on February 13, 2012 in Computers & Accessories, Electronics, Memory Cards & External Storage |
Toshiba E05A100PBU3XS Canvio 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive – Black/Silver is on sale at TigerDirect. The price is $129.99 $119.99. You save $10.00!
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Pros: Looks good – Fairly fast
Cons: When I took the drive out of the package I hooked the thick black cable up to the drive and it came out of the drive port right away. I thought I didn’t push it in far enough so I tried again and again it came out right away. Frustrated I was about to send the drive back and then I tried another USB 3.0 cable (from a friend that bought a western digital HDD) and it worked just fine. End result is I had to order a seperate cable from Newegg in order to run my drive because the cable would not stay in its port. I usually buy western digital (Passport Essential) HDD’s and wanted to give Toshiba a try. I will probably go back to western digital next time.
Pros: Weight: excellent.Color: excellent.Efficiency: great.Speed: May post benchmarks, but the fastest external I’ve used ever (and I’ve used firewire 400/800) and this is just utilizing its usb2.0! The cord: tons of reviewers complained the cord was too short. I LOVE the short sturdy USB3.0 cord. I’m massively mobile and can’t stand long, dangly cords everywhere. With this brilliant cord design, I don’t have to worry about winding it up!Space: HUGE! 1tb!Price: Exceptional. Seriously.Cross-OS-Compatibility: Works with MacOS (macfuse for ntfs) and linux ubuntu incredibly well.Extra: Have yet to get USB3.0 system (working on that!) to test out its max speed. Connectivity: I read lots of reviews about disconnection problems. So far, have experienced zero of those and don’t foresee such problems happening.Formatting: simply and easily partitioned and formatted the drive in gparted. No odd drivers. No softwrae needed. THIS is how external hard drives should be
Cons: Straining to think of some…um…um…nothing. Even the color and the trivial things like design are great.”More Other Thoughts”:I extensively researched (at least 8 hours) ToshibaIomegaSeagate drives(I will never purchase a WD drive again due to data loss and imho, poor product). Seagate was close but I read that it has a hard-disk spin down that makes it incompatible with linux.Iomega was great in the ’90s but I trust toshiba and am glad I did. Other Thoughts: I’m a huge fan of Toshiba external Hard drives. So much, that I considered (bet went with ASUS for netbook which is great) getting an entire laptop/netbook made by toshiba. I stuck with them for external hard drives second time around (the first time was a 320gb_toshiba I got in france). I love their compact design. The 320gb one I have used very externsively (probably transferred back and forth more than 1, closer to to 2 terabytes of data (on the 320gb drive). Toshiba has never failed me for external hard drives and I’m paranoid, freaskish (and quite good) about backups!Note: I did have dropbox installed on my external 320gb toshiba for a few months and the drive kept cutting off causing a lot of problems with the dropbox software (erroneously thinking data was deleted, when it wasn’t). Dropbox isn’t designed to be used on external hard drives, and putting my dropbox data on an external in the first place wasn’t appropriate, so I put that data on internal (and can doublebac
Pros: 1- Price2- 1.5TB3- Shipping was fast
Cons: 1- Somewhat loud when running. Other Thoughts: I have only owned this drive for a week. I am hoping this drive will last me for at least 4 years.
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Pros: Very light and sleek. “Had” a good upload speed.
Cons: Ended up crashing after a month and four days. The drive took hours to save less than a GB of files. Hopefully I could get my money back.
Pros: As Per previous POST
Cons: only 1TB in size Other Thoughts: I had to contaact Toshiba repair center in Fremont, CA 510-651-6798 Hours Mon-Fri 6am – 5pm. Many customers having same issue cables came off the line defective with this drive bundle. You may need a replacement cable if this drive was purchased within the fallowing months: 3-1-11 / 5-1-11
Pros: portable and looks cool. usb 3.0 port works great on my desktop computer. 1TB is spacious for general data backup
Cons: the cable is a bad design. the 1st one I got had problems connecting at the beginning. Then in about 1month the hard drive started to lose connection once in a while during data transfer/reading. It sometimes cannot get recognized when plugged in. I returned it to toshiba b/c it was already out of the 1month warranty on newegg and got a new one back in about a week. I hope this one lasts. Other Thoughts: the toshiba warranty support was hard to reach. They highlighted in red on their website that RMA for portable HD has to be done on the phone. I called twice and always got directed to a voicemail. I left my number and no one ever called me back. So I just applied RMA online whatsoever and then actually got approved in a timely manner. The return process was okay and took about 1 week.
Pros: Super compact, lighter than the latest cellphone, incredibaly fast 3.0 and 2.0 compatable Nice backup software included but I dumped that I use much better.
Cons: only 1 TB Other Thoughts: Pairs very well with Patriot Box Office!
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