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    Toshiba Canvio Advance 1TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0, Blue (HDTC910XL3AA)

    • And yet they can't bother to even send a good program with their hard drive
    • Excellent drive
    • It's very small, compared to my other external hard drives, with the same amount of space!
    • I went through three recovery programs to find that it is not a file issue rather the drive itself has stopped working
    • Very reliable quick hard drive
    • Also, this drive is super FAST.
    • I feel much better now that my data is safely backed-up, and would recommend this external and portable hard drive to anyone.
    • Excellent hard drive
    • Great USB3 drive that works on USB1.1 and USB 2.0
    • This external hard drive did the job!
    • These Toshiba Canvio external hard drives are the best
    • I HIGHLY recommend this hard drive
    • Simple, portable external hard drive perfect for saving files/pictures/movies in a separate, but convenient location.
    • Solid hard drive.
    • If you simple want a one partition hard drive, this would technically still work for you with Apple.
    • This is a fantastic external hard drive.
    • It's a hard drive
    • Wonderful external hard drive
    • Toshiba Canvio 3TB External Hard drive is compact and easy to install and use.
    • When I called tech support they told me there was a different phone number of hard drives (Which was not listed on their website)
    • Toshiba portable drives are just flawless, perfect hard drives and come on a great size and nice materials
    • I don't really think more needs to be said about a functing external hard drive.
    • It's not the best, so unless you don't care much for this feature of portable hard drives or like over simplistic buttons and navigation, check out other options and come back to this one.
    • Very nice little hard drive
    • If I get any help from them after this I will leave an update, but based on other (I now know ACCURATE) reviews, my expectations for service are lower than the quality of this hard drive.
    • Functions just like your computers hard drive
    • I lost my entire hard drive info.
    • Toshiba is now my favorite external hard drives over WD or Seagate... super fast and sleek
    • Great hard drive.
    • The hard drive is fine
    • Great hard drive with great storage
    • Nice external hard drive
    • I love this drive.
    • This product was working fine until one week ago where as I can no longer access the portable hard drive files.
    • I would highly recommend this external hard drive for anyone who is looking for a small footprint external hard driver that operates at a very reasonable temperature.
    • Excellent external drive
    • Like if the hard drive is failing and about to die) period
    • These are very nice external hard drives
    • If I had to recommend as a computer technician whether to buy laptop or desktop-sized external hard drives, I'd go with the former
    • I have used hard drive to produce 2 full length movies (as seen on
    • i wish there was a way to password protect the drive
    • It won't even work as USB drive
    • I needed it as a backup drive and it worked as expected right out of the box.
    • The hard drive arrived 2 days earlier than expected, which is great!It is small and handy and has a nice glossy surface and pretty color (I ordered the red
    • Sadly, this drive died just 29 months after purchase, which of course is outside of the 2 year warranty.
    • Nice external hard drive.
    • The drive has worked very well.
    • It came with an extremely short USB 3.0 cable which I did not like because it is too short for my needs as I am using this external hard drive to backup my desktop computer
    • So far I love everything about this hard drive.
    • But I have 1.7TB of files on this hard drive and its pretty much done for
    • This external hard drive has made it perfectly fine through several drops and tumbles, where my last one died after one small tumble
    • If you are having problems you may need to hook it up to a powered USB hub, but it is a good drive
    • This hard drive is remarkably small but has a TON of storage!!
    • A nice portable hard drive to store your photos with an easy to see indicator LED on top.
    • This is a great portable hard drive
    • I checked out the Canvio BASIC Hard Drive compatibility from another retailers website, and it shows to be compatible with Win 8, Win 7, Win Vista, and Win XP
    • The drive is fast with USB as a network share and it's easy to create the shares off the R6400.
    • I would suggest to go with Seagate plus portable external hard drive, they provide a massive 200 GB free online storage
    • super easy to use works perfectly for a x box hard drive.
    • New Macs have a USB C port and the cable to this hard drive is USB A.
    • On my second failed Toshiba hard drive
    • I love this little hard drive.
    • Having trouble trying to download from the internet onto the Toshiba portable hard drive, never getting the chance to change drives and the C drive on my notebook is full.
    • I seem to have better luck with this brand of hard drive
    • I use this for all my storage needs since my PC onlyhas a 240GB hard drive
    • On my Mac, you can easily drag/drop files from your internal hard drive or another external drive to the other
    • I got one of these for back up for my '09 iMac after installing some solid state hard drive chips two years ago
    • If i want it the version 5 update of the software for my hard drive, I can now PAY another $19.99!!
    • These are perfect for modern netbooks and laptops that don’t have big hard drives.
    • Love this drive
    • I'll never be caught with my ' stupid' exposed again thanks to this little hard drive.
    • Nice external drive for saving your photos and videos
    • This is my first external hard drive
    • How much can you love a hard drive?
    • The external surface of the hard drive does get scratched easily so I’d get some type of protective carrying bag if you plan to use it portably.
    • Great Portable Hard Drive!
    • Solid external drive
    • Small portable drive, 2 TB space.
    • I'm so relieved that I finally broke down and bought a portable hard drive
    • I must say it works as well as my MacBooks internal drive
    • When you disassemble a Seagate portable drive, what you see inside is a Samsung brand regular laptop drive connected to a board that provides the USB port; you just slide the drive from the board and you end up with a regular laptop drive
    • The hard drive itself looks really nice and the light on the corner is cool
    • I just ordered a new 2T Portable Hard-drive from Seagate.
    • This drive crashed on me within two months of buying
    • Was running out of space on my pc, and this portable hard drive does the trick!!
    • I needed hard drive space, so i bought two more, thinking i mishandled the first one
    • Barely used in the first three months and hard drive failed
    • Fast hard drive!
    • Toshiba hard drives are used in many other devices that you enjoy!
    • Love this hard drive
    • I love the Toshiba external hard drives
    • Great reliable drive
    • I can move between my computers and store my important data on this portable drive.
    • I have been using this hard drive for about a year now.
    • The hard drive does what it's supposed to
    • This external hard drive was very easy to use (really all I had to do was plug it in to my laptop) and it’s saved so much space on my laptop hard drive
    • Good external hard drive
    • Unlike other people who have reviewed this product I had no problem plugging it in and having Windows 10 recognize it immediately allowing me simply to drag files onto this little hard drive.
    • I also like the fact that it does not heat up when you are transferring data between the Hard Drive and your laptop or computer
    • = the software does NOT come preinstalled nor on a disc; you MUST download the security software from the Internet5th = this drive is MUCH slower than my other Toshiba external portable hard drives (WHY???)I am hoping this drive holds up and can be reliable; but this is NOT a good start
    • I emailed product support and was told to first try running "chkdsk" on my Dell to correct any issues with the hard drive.
    • It is crazy to realize how small a physical hard drive, that is capable of holding 2 TB of data, can actually be
    • I use this item expand the space of my X-Box One X compare to other portable hard drives there is not much extra software included by Toshiba which I enjoy greatly.
    • I lost my other hard drive with years of photos on it, so this was a welcomed surprise
    • I so much wish I would have saved the extra money I paid for this drive, and bought the Toshiba drive free of their junk software, so I could have used the money to buy a quality backup program... if I was going to buy a Toshiba drive at all
    • I highly doubt that, even though I only had the hard drive one year
    • The best hard drive
    • This external hard drive works very well, and holds a lot of storage, and easily connects from one laptop to the other.
    • Very nice ext hard drive
    • The one think I don't like (putting it mildly) is the plug to the hard drive keeps falling out
    • I ordered this external hard drive on a Saturday and got it on Monday and only paid regular shipping
    • External hard drive used as a data back up to several laptops and desktop computers
    • I've been very happy with the 1TB and 5TB hard drives they make, but this 3TB version is very flawed.
    • The Toshiba Canvio Connect II series is a great portable hard drive
    • This drive is fantastic for the price.
    • And NO, they are not going to GIVE it to me, even though I still have this Toshiba hard drive that I paid extra to gain the software, and that I've only been using for a year, and is still under warranty
    • This drive worked perfectly
    • I have a stay at home external hard drive as well!
    • quiet and does everything you need a portable hard drive to do, store movies
    • If you lose everything because your hard drive crashes, that's your fault.
    • Its works perfectly with the ps4 better than any other hard drive I have tried.
    • I recommend this drive and seller.
    • Great hard drive and did exactly what I needed it to
    • Great hard drive
    • Spent considerable time loading photos on to this hard drive only to have it fail within 5 months.
    • Fantastic little drive, it is working out great for me, it is nice and compact and does not run hot.
    • Fantastic little drive, it is working out great for me, it is nice and compact and does not run hot.
    • Both Canvios come preloaded with a program to backup and sync your files, but if you used this, Toshiba recommends that you do not set-up the password feature, as any glitch in either the computer or hard drive will prevent the password sign in from coming up, and there is no back door recovery.
    • I took an old, over 8 years old, 1 TB USB 2.0 external hard drive and copied it over to this new hard drive; it handled it just perfectly
    • The Toshiba external hard drive Works fantastic haven't had any problems with
    • After removing it from the Amazon box, there was little packaging, no tape holding anything together, and smear marks/streaks on the hard drive
    • My first external hard drive
    • Toshiba HDTC910XW3AA Canvio Advance 1TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0
    • My dad needed extra storage space on his computer because he takes a lot of pictures, and this portable hard drive was great for him!
    • Ive read that the connection in the hard drive is week, and it is
    • I purchased this external hard drive for use in my home office.
    • I have had this hard drive for only 2 months and the hard drive has failed.
    • So I still need a portable hard drive, but will never buy Toshiba again
    • This drive died 68 days after delivery
    • No fuss external drive, just what I need
    • software could be better but nice drives
    • I worry about not using the cords shipped with a product, especially with hard drives because with one misstep you can risk losing everything
    • Most likely it's a bad connection on the micro-B to the hard drive
    • Toshiba Canvio Connect II 2TB Portable Hard Drive, Black(HDTC820XK3C1)I absolutely love this EHD
    • I'm surprised by how many components this hard drive isn't compatible with, but it works at it's base function as a storage device for my music and movies
    • Good 3TB external drive for back-ups, good value + very small, compact
    • good, stable hard drive.
    • I bought this Canvio Advance Hard Drive mainly for the Toshiba name, but also I wanted the 'back-up' capabilities the 'Advanced' one has over the Basic Model
    • I don't know if I'm misreading the text in regard to the technical meaning of "reformatting" but this drive should not come up in a search for "Mac compatible external hard drives"
    • This morning, the noise is there again and i cannot see this hard drive in finder
    • Trying to simply delete items on the hard drive.
    • this is my second toshiba portable hard drive
    • I am very satisfied with this Toshiba portable hard drive.
    • So my old external hard drive is still going strong and i liked it so much that i bought this one
    • I purchased two of these external hard drives for my Mac
    • Nice little hard drive that works as extra storage for my PS4.Took one star away as this thing is a dust magnet and although it is a very pretty looking little storage device, it doesn't take much dust at all to make it look off
    • pretty nice hard drive haven't really ever had any problems out of Toshiba.
    • Great hard drive for the price
    • This big hard drive has operated perfectly
    • The hard drive is fine as long as you don't touch it while it's connected to the computer
    • Like the other Toshiba portable drive I bought, this disconnects at the drop of a hat
    • I also have a larger Toshiba hard drive
    • Purchased 6 months ago because the hard drive on my laptop was nearly full of photos (I'm an amateur/student photographer)
    • Great hard drive... not much to say about, works exactly like it is supposed to.
    • I had never had problems with external hard drive until now
    • It replaced a Seagate hard drive I bought at Costco that didn't last.
    • This external hard drive has exceeded my expectations in many ways
    • Getting a reliable external hard drive like this one will save you the stress and sorrow!
    • Find another external hard drive this one STINKS!!
    • This hard drive does exactly what it is supposed to
    • Awesome external drive
    • My previous hard drive made it a chore to transfer files.
    • The item worked very well and toshiba makes hard drives for other comp companies so you can't go wrong very fast shipping .
    • and like i said all the hard drives i bought from adata could not be opened
    • With the techs help, it was determined that the hard drive was defective and I should return it directly to Toshiba rather than through Amazon for a gift card refund, since I was past the 30 day return window.
    • but what is the point of having a external drive drive if it is going to break within 6-7 months of normal usage?He has not abused this drive
    • It is their area of product offering and expertise--- a hard drive and software to make good use of it
    • This is my sixth purchase of this hard drive
    • Getting a reliable external hard drive like this one will save you the stress and sorrow!
    • Unfortunately the final result was I couldn't get my personal information off of the device and the only way to get a gift card at the value of the hard drive, was to return it
    • This external hard drive has exceeded my expectations in many ways
    • Great hard drive... not much to say about, works exactly like it is supposed to.
    • Me, being used to reviews of tech and other things that mostly work being reviewed by people who have limited knowledge of technology, thought that Toshiba was a great company and as long as I am gentle with it the hard drive it should be totally fine
    • When I received an item for this buyer I was confused as I opened up the package to see a pair of sunglasses instead of the hard drive
    • I like the drive
    • The hard drive is fine as long as you don't touch it while it's connected to the computer
    • Great hard drive for the price
    • Nice little hard drive that works as extra storage for my PS4.Took one star away as this thing is a dust magnet and although it is a very pretty looking little storage device, it doesn't take much dust at all to make it look off
    • pretty nice hard drive haven't really ever had any problems out of Toshiba.
    • So my old external hard drive is still going strong and i liked it so much that i bought this one
    • this is my second toshiba portable hard drive
    • I am very satisfied with this Toshiba portable hard drive.
    • I don't know if I'm misreading the text in regard to the technical meaning of "reformatting" but this drive should not come up in a search for "Mac compatible external hard drives"
    • good, stable hard drive.
    • and I didn't buy your hard drive knowing that you have this free Software included
    • I'm surprised by how many components this hard drive isn't compatible with, but it works at it's base function as a storage device for my music and movies
    • I have plenty of hard drives and know not to pull the cord without ejecting from my Mac first
    • I have a 2T drive, backing up a 465G hard drive, and the backup now has over 1T on it, after just a few weeks
    • Toshiba Canvio Connect II 2TB Portable Hard Drive, Black(HDTC820XK3C1)I absolutely love this EHD
    • I use this to hold photos rather than filling up my computer's hard drive.
    • So I still need a portable hard drive, but will never buy Toshiba again
    • Although I can't download photos directly to it I can take it with me, download photos to a borrowed computer and then transfer them to the hard drive.
    • My dad needed extra storage space on his computer because he takes a lot of pictures, and this portable hard drive was great for him!
    • The hard drive is a lovely compact size, almost palm-sized, and it sits in its case (purchased separately) on my desk awaiting more downloads as I expand my collection of designs.
    • Like Toshiba hard drives UpdateStopped working good thing I didn't have anything to important stored on it
    • Toshiba HDTC910XW3AA Canvio Advance 1TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0
    • Toshiba external hard drive I have purchased
    • I own two other external hard drives which are slow, difficult to use, and quite a bit larger physically though much smaller in capacity.
    • The Toshiba external hard drive Works fantastic haven't had any problems with
    • Definitely the best hard-drive I've owned
    • So much easier to use than the last hard drive I purchased.
    • I ditched the included backup software and simply used it as a drag and drop hard drive
    • This hard drive also will spin down in a timely fashion both saving energy and increasing the life of the hard drive itself
    • Great hard drive
    • Great hard drive and did exactly what I needed it to
    • I am normally very happy with Toshiba Products, including the external hard drives
    • To their credit, they replace the hard drive for
    • quiet and does everything you need a portable hard drive to do, store movies
    • I used to have one of the old heavy duty toshiba external hard drive (one that had to be plugged into a power outlet & into the computer) for years til it finally gave up on me
    • so it's not the fastest drive on the market but the USB3 interface makes for fast data transfer.
    • The Toshiba Canvio Connect II series is a great portable hard drive
    • My PC displayed a message that folders of pictures and documents could not be copied onto this hard drive
    • but the drive is fine.
    • I was getting ready to have my laptop re-imaged for work and needed an external hard drive to back up some personal files.
    • Very nice ext hard drive
    • I had the external hard drive for awhile and it is working well.
    • This external hard drive works very well, and holds a lot of storage, and easily connects from one laptop to the other.
    • This external hard drive works very well, and holds a lot of storage, and easily connects from one laptop to the other.
    • Great portable drive at a great price
    • Hard drive took very long time to update and format
    • I use this item expand the space of my X-Box One X compare to other portable hard drives there is not much extra software included by Toshiba which I enjoy greatly.
    • So far the hard drive is performing exactly as specified
    • When I received it, all I had to do was connect the USB cable to the hard drive, plug it into my computer, and I was good to go
    • I am extremely satisfied with the external hard drive, it's incredibly easy to install, just plug and play.
    • = the software does NOT come preinstalled nor on a disc; you MUST download the security software from the Internet5th = this drive is MUCH slower than my other Toshiba external portable hard drives (WHY???)I am hoping this drive holds up and can be reliable; but this is NOT a good start
    • and she is very pleased with this hard drive.
    • Good external hard drive
    • This external hard drive was very easy to use (really all I had to do was plug it in to my laptop) and it’s saved so much space on my laptop hard drive
    • Maybe I just got a defective one or the hard drive is not built for everyday use
    • 2 months after I bought it a was going to make a Backup and it wasn't even identified as a hard drive
    • Very good drive at a good price
    • I'm using it as an external hard drive for my Blue Ray Films (70 Films actually) and Computer BackUp
    • It did take about 8 hours the first time (on my previous hard drive, I think it took 14 hours the first time, so this was an improvement)
    • Love this hard drive
    • I love the Toshiba external hard drives
    • Fast hard drive!
    • I have had another 3 hard drives with no problems at all.
    • Was running out of space on my pc, and this portable hard drive does the trick!!
    • Tested it a few days after backing up my hard drive and everything was there and intact.
    • I just ordered a new 2T Portable Hard-drive from Seagate.
    • We bought this as an extra hard drive for PlayStation 4
    • Unfortunately I had already handled the hard drive so in a low panic I rushed to wash my hands
    • This drive works perfectly on my HP laptop.
    • When working with some files I had a few issues with the files bringing in shortcuts with them (which made a bit of a mess on the drive) but I'm not certain that it was an issue with the hard drive itself; that was more likely user error
    • I just copied my files and pasted them on this hard drive.
    • The hard drive itself looks really nice and the light on the corner is cool
    • With light use, this drive failed completey within 4 months of purchase
    • I'm so relieved that I finally broke down and bought a portable hard drive
    • Great Portable Hard Drive!
    • How much can you love a hard drive?
    • With any compact drive, it pays to be gentle with this socket
    • I'm unable to run Time Machine and there seems to be no way around it so this otherwise very compact and nice-seeming drive is probably going to have to be returned
    • So far this hard drive has been a magnificent tool
    • I got one of these for back up for my '09 iMac after installing some solid state hard drive chips two years ago
    • Bought this to replace another hard drive that died after six years.
    • This drive is working flawlessly as a backup for my Mac
    • Having trouble trying to download from the internet onto the Toshiba portable hard drive, never getting the chance to change drives and the C drive on my notebook is full.
    • This exterior compact 2TB hard drive is excellent as a working unit, and for a backup unit.
    • I love this little hard drive.
    • This is my 3rd Toshiba external hard drive, and I never had a problem with the other 2 older Toshiba drives that I used before this one.
    • Fantastic drive
    • This drive is fast and lightweight
    • I would suggest to go with Seagate plus portable external hard drive, they provide a massive 200 GB free online storage
    • This is a great portable hard drive
    • A nice portable hard drive to store your photos with an easy to see indicator LED on top.
    • This external hard drive has made it perfectly fine through several drops and tumbles, where my last one died after one small tumble
    • We purchased this to replace a failed backup drive
    • It is a great drive
    • I downloaded first to a mac book then to this hard drive.
    • This drive is very slow to back up computer files
    • Toshiba drives are finicky sometimes
    • Nice external hard drive.
    • second Toshiba hard drive that I purchased and I love them both.
    • This hard-drive died after a year and three months of me owning it
    • I have recently purchased a hard drive repair kit, and maybe, just maybe, i'll get some of that info back when that repair kit gets here
    • Our first computer had a 1 gig hard drive
    • My son was angry that as of today, his external hard drive stopped working and was making clicking noises
    • I ordered this hard drive as a gift for my granddaughter and she is very pleased with it
    • This hard drive is about 3/4's the size of my old one but has twice the storage
    • Great drive, attractive and huge capacity!
    • So I got another hard drive that I had and hooked that up instead of the Toshiba
    • Like if the hard drive is failing and about to die) period
    • These are very nice external hard drives
    • Good drive, works well and small and light
    • Using it to run automatic back up of desktop hard drive.
    • This product was working fine until one week ago where as I can no longer access the portable hard drive files.
    • I would highly recommend this external hard drive for anyone who is looking for a small footprint external hard driver that operates at a very reasonable temperature.
    • The games save right to this hard drive
    • Nice external hard drive
    • Great hard drive with great storage
    • The hard drive is fine
    • Great hard drive.
    • This hard drive comes with NTI Backup Now EZ 4 which allows you to create a complete system backup as well as a file and folders backup jobs
    • Toshiba is now my favorite external hard drives over WD or Seagate... super fast and sleek
    • Very nice little hard drive
    • Not bulky as some of the portable drives can be
    • It's not the best, so unless you don't care much for this feature of portable hard drives or like over simplistic buttons and navigation, check out other options and come back to this one.
    • Toshiba portable drives are just flawless, perfect hard drives and come on a great size and nice materials
    • The hard drive itself is slightly larger than a deck of cards, and comes with one cord which connects to a USB port on your computer or device.
    • used it to backup my Mac BookPro and it destroyed my hard drive and i lost everything not buying toshiba ever again since this is the third one i have bought
    • Really calls into question the use of cheap external drives for backup of important files
    • I downloaded many critical files on this hard drive during those two days and now it does not function.
    • Toshiba Canvio 3TB External Hard drive is compact and easy to install and use.
    • When I tried to connect it with my computer, it has some working sound inside the hard drive but there is nothing appearing on my computer screen.
    • Really slow, crappy hard drive
    • Wonderful external hard drive
    • I bought this hard drive at the end of December to hold my GoPro video files since I have over 3 years worth and they take up way too much space to be stored on my computer- over 500gb of files
    • I called Toshiba tech help for assistance on reformatting this hard drive for a Mac.
    • This is a fantastic external hard drive.
    • Simple, portable external hard drive perfect for saving files/pictures/movies in a separate, but convenient location.
    • Solid hard drive.
    • I have two other external hard drives -- both Western Digital My Passport Ultra, and both are running fine after years
    • I HIGHLY recommend this hard drive
    • These Toshiba Canvio external hard drives are the best
    • This hard drive is way smaller than the other external hard drive that I was using before this one which is what I wanted
    • None of the other portable drives I've used (Silicon Power, WD, Seagate) have been this alarmingly, embarrassingly pokey
    • This new drive was unable to “talk” to my MacBook Pro.
    • Excellent hard drive
    • I feel much better now that my data is safely backed-up, and would recommend this external and portable hard drive to anyone.
    • The other drive on my iMac has worked fine through the whole time I was screwing around with this one, so I'm giving it a two-star review for that reason.
    • Very reliable quick hard drive
    • The drive itself is fine, but the included software is TERRIBLE.
    • Copying 850GB of data to the Toshiba Canvio from a reasonably fast internal drive took (drumroll please) more than FIFTEEN HOURS
    • I think this hard drive worked for me for less than a month before it started making clicking noises and shutting down, and eventually it stopped working
    • Great drive lots of capacity at 3TB and fast via usb 3, plug it
    • It works well with Xbox One and it turns on when the Xbox turns on (some other hard drives don't do that.
    • I will never buy a Toshiba hard drive again
    • Unlike my last external hard drive this one still works perfectly after my clumsy butt has dropped it a bunch of times!
    • The hard drive arrived very fast, however, the box and plastic was smashed
    • I use this drive partly for games and it works without issue
    • It is also a little thicker than I expected, almost twice the thickness of my 1TB drive, but it is still a very portable drive.
    • Would recommend looking else where for a brand new portable hard drive
    • This is a great portable hard drive with tons of storage capacity
    • The hard drive itself works fine but the main reason I purchased this particular product was the misleading product description
    • Not much to say about it since it's just a hard drive
    • Great compact drive, quick and easy for back up
    • I ordered this portable hard drive because it said it was Mac compatible.
    • My hard drive was backed up, but I do not know how to update the backup
    • very Good hard Drive
    • This on my second external Hard Drive Toshiba, the previous 1TB 4 years ago and I have not had any inconvenience or loss of data, so I recommend the toshiba brand
    • I've backed up my laptop hard drive and phone including over 8,000 photos
    • the best external hard drive in the world, reliable, fast, good looking
    • After reading the bad reviews, I decided to replace it with a WD hard drive
    • I use this hard drive to provide backup storage for my very large and valuable collection of machine embroidery designs.
    • USB powered hard drive
    • I didn't feel comfortable sending back a hard drive that had all my information on it to some random company even if they stated they would destroy the device
    • I haven't noticed this hard drive doing that
    • The hard drive on my hard-working Toshiba Satellite laptop is 500gb
    • nice Hard drive and it works with all my computers
    • Then I have to transfer my files on another hard drive and format their toshiba to make it usable only on pc
    • I wouldnt recommend this drive for any users who owns a mac
    • I have used several brands of external hard drives and I currently own several Toshiba external hard drives
    • This hard drive is working great
    • I was worried I would kill the drive immediately
    • This tiny external drive works great
    • I needed a portable hard-drive to save tons of files from different devices, and overall this is pretty easy to use
    • Handy compact external hard drive with good softwares.
    • This hard drive is wonderful,, works great !!!!!
    • This hard drive is wonderful,, works great !!!!!
    • It's a very good hard drive, very fast and efficient
    • Hard drive makes a clicking sound and cannot be read by any computer.
    • I needed the extra storage after filling up the hard drive on my laptop.
    • Even if you don't provide the software, your hard drive is still the best
    • Other external drives are easy to use
    • This is my preferred brand of external hard drive
    • The drive got warm, but not hot
    • The fix involved downloading a driver program and also changing the file structure on the hard drive.
    • It's also very important to save all files on your computer onto an external hard drive
    • This hard drive works perfectly
    • These are the best hard drives ever
    • I can watch movies wireless from my computer to my TV from this Hard Drive when attached to my PC.
    • Great portable drive
    • I bought an external hard drive case to protect it but it still broke after a week
    • This hard drive worked for two days and then would not work.
    • I purchased this portable hard drive to replace an old desktop external hard drive which used an external power supply which I wanted to get rid of
    • Will update if/when I can get the hard drive working again.
    • So when I got the hard drive on the Mac replaced at the Apple store and started with default settings, I was able to upload all of my stuff back on the mac just like "it never happened."
    • Worked great as a backup drive for my Mac.
    • Excellent back up hard drive unit.
    • Portable External Hard Drive -
    • I contacted Toshiba and Geek Squad to confirm that they were incompatible, so the third time purchased Western Digital 1TB My Passport Ultra USB 3.0 Secure Portable External Hard Drive, Blue (WDBGPU0010BBL-NESN) and that one works like a charm with our Toshiba LapTop.
    • It also seems like it isn't the easiest to open/find what I'm looking for on the hard drive itself.
    • This drive works great!
    • I will be purchasing a second of these Toshiba Canvio Connect II hard drives in just a little while so I can keep my data stored in a safe deposit box as well as here at home.
    • Works every time but not as fast as my Seagate 750GB Internal 2.5" hard drive plugged into my INATECK Internal hard drive adaptor to USB 3.0.
    • so it takes high marks for the shortest lived hard drive I've ever owned.
    • I haven't had much luck with portable hard drives lately.
    • Bought as a external hard drive for my PS4
    • so I could start editing all the footage I shot two weekends ago at a music festival, and I was dismayed to discover that the hard drive had corrupted.3 years of footage
    • This is a great drive for atoaging files
    • This is a great backup drive -- love the color -- and it has been working like a work horse since I got it.
    • I think an external hard drive should last longer than that.
    • Good 3TB external drive for back-ups, good value + very small, compact
    • It works but the hdmi cord is constantly falling out of the hard drive so slightly that I don’t even notice it until i look on my desktop and the hard drive
    • This Canvio Connect 3TB Portable Hard Drive serves that purpose marvelously, with loads of additional space on it far beyond my current needs so it should serve me for many years to come.
    • Great backup drive
    • Great little hard drive.
    • Amazing such a tiny little hard drive can hold so much data.
    • She was able to download all her files from her outdated laptop to the new external hard drive in less than 15 minutes
    • That is why I ordered this external, portable hard drive
    • I had a 1TB hard drive from the Jurassic period
    • Didn't have the drive long enough to see if it was any good as hardware - but if you buy one, IMMEDIATELY FORMAT IT.
    • You may not need password protection, but it's a nice feature, and most hard drives include it now.2
    • Both drives have been flawless
    • Toshiba used to make good drives and I have had good success with them in the past but the QA must be slipping
    • Excellent quick and durable external hard drive
    • So although the description claims this thing is completely compatible with Mac without reformatting, I'm running OS Sierra 10.12 and Amazon customer service (which did a great job, very polite and listened well) looked on the Toshiba site which only states this drive is compatible up to like 10.11 or something, some version before what I have
    • COPY MY HARD DRIVE and get-too much crud to deal with.
    • Works exactly like a hard drive is supposed.
    • This was okay hard drive
    • happy to say that toshiba external hard drive is GREAT.
    • Best Portable Hard Drive excellent quality, heavy duty, reliable,easy-to-use made foreverExtremely easy to set-up
    • Great case for my portable hard drive.
    • Best Portable Hard Drive excellent quality, heavy duty, reliable,easy-to-use made foreverExtremely easy to set-up
    • This portable hard drive is outstanding
    • I ordered the case and they work great together!Drive Logic DL-64-RED Portable EVA Hard Drive...
    • I had an older portable hard drive that slowed down my computer whenever it was working
    • Then, just use it as an additional hard drive.
    • No hard drive lasts forever; that should be the mantra of everyone that sells these things
    • Fast and lightweight great portable hard drive!
    • I am not sending this hard drive to Toshiba for a return with personal files stored on it.
    • This external hard drive is slim enough to be used just about anywhere
    • Find a great cord and you can use this hard drive with all its might.
    • The hard drive seems fine, but the backup software is crap
    • This portable hard drive was inexpensive and more than enough space to back up my computer
    • Excellent little hard drive with a nice size capacity.
    • I was expecting a bulky drive....so compact and light
    • I've had other hard drives from Western Digital and theirs weren't as fast (to upload/download) as this one
    • I love this hard drive, saving photos is very easy
    • This compact 2TB hard drive is quite portable
    • I love this Toshiba 1TB connect II portable external Hard Drive
    • It is a great drive and very fast!
    • I have a hard drive with almost 800 GB of space that I can not even use now, other than to take things off of, which is not what I bought it for
    • This compact 2TB hard drive is quite portable
    • I love this Toshiba 1TB connect II portable external Hard Drive
    • The unit comes with the address for the software that is made for this hard drive that is simple and complete.
    • I don’t recommend this hard drive.
    • I love this hard drive, saving photos is very easy
    • When I came back and woke my laptop again, the hard drive wouldn't connect and after a few reboots I was able to get it to connect
    • This portable hard drive was inexpensive and more than enough space to back up my computer
    • Excellent little hard drive with a nice size capacity.
    • Love this little compact 1TB drive, fits in my bag and leaves a minimal footprint anywhere.
    • This drive works with a pc computer/laptop OR a Mac
    • The hard drive seems fine, but the backup software is crap
    • Thank heaven for this little external hard drive
    • Well Monday came and the hard drive arrived
    • This has alot of memory for the price, works like a regular hard drive
    • Recently I had a lot of issues with adata hard drives which i could not open anymore with my bluray player
    • you have an enemy you can buy him/her toshiba hard drive
    • the speed of my other external hard drives
    • Fast and lightweight great portable hard drive!
    • I had an older portable hard drive that slowed down my computer whenever it was working
    • I ordered the case and they work great together!Drive Logic DL-64-RED Portable EVA Hard Drive...
    • This portable hard drive is outstanding
    • Great case for my portable hard drive.
    • happy to say that toshiba external hard drive is GREAT.
    • Best Portable Hard Drive excellent quality, heavy duty, reliable,easy-to-use made foreverExtremely easy to set-up
    • Works exactly like a hard drive is supposed.
    • Very fast drive!Was using a 2 TB passport and it was 1/2 the speed of this one.
    • It does have a special cord that comes with it, the sort I've got on some other hard drives,
    • Excellent quick and durable external hard drive
    • This is the first external hard drive that I have purchased, and this one has been flawless.
    • but you can't, the usb 3.0 comes inside the hard drive literally attached
    • Always eject the hard drive before unplugging unless your computer is powered off
    • That is why I ordered this external, portable hard drive
    • Great little hard drive.
    • Amazing such a tiny little hard drive can hold so much data.
    • I just went to update everything again, and the hard drive has crapped out already!
    • Great drive
    • This Canvio Connect 3TB Portable Hard Drive serves that purpose marvelously, with loads of additional space on it far beyond my current needs so it should serve me for many years to come.
    • Unfortunately TOSHIBA very disappointingThe Hard Drive has some scratches like if it has been opened before or somethingAll four corners have very annoying appearance
    • This hard drive is not a simple thing to use
    • The drive has failed after only being used as a backup drive
    • Sometimes, when connecting the hard drive, the security software won't start automatically
    • It started working fine, but then after time passed it randomly switched my hard drive from mac os (journaled) to rtfs and ruined all my files (ALMOST 200GB OF VIDEO AND PICTURES) and now it won't even open anymore or let me reformat it
    • you can't register hard drives on the Toshiba site, I wonder how they are going to contact me if/when an update is made available
    • The drive is Perfect.
    • This drive, in and of itself, is excellent.
    • I chose TOSHIBA because their drives are the best, but this one is not the same quality as their internal HDDs
    • Reliable and competitively priced portable drive.
    • New laptops don't normally have huge hard drives in them for file storage, so this fits the bill nicely.
    • I haven't had much luck with portable hard drives lately.
    • I only bought this one, because my last Toshiba external hard drive is about 7 years old and would hate for it to kick the bucket (after my laptop did)
    • I use NTFS on my Mac and the Toshiba hard drive can connect with my computer at first.
    • I contacted Toshiba and Geek Squad to confirm that they were incompatible, so the third time purchased Western Digital 1TB My Passport Ultra USB 3.0 Secure Portable External Hard Drive, Blue (WDBGPU0010BBL-NESN) and that one works like a charm with our Toshiba LapTop.
    • A large-capacity drive and a good value for a USB-3 powered portable drive.
    • Just saying that there are faster drives on the market but you will pay for it.
    • Portable External Hard Drive -
    • This Toshiba hard drive works just fine with its rapid usb 3.0 connection
    • I purchased this portable hard drive to replace an old desktop external hard drive which used an external power supply which I wanted to get rid of
    • I really hope Toshiba is capable of retrieving my files off of this piece of junk hard drive because when I'm not having an anxiety attack about it, I'm near tears in despair.
    • This hard drive works perfectly
    • Make sure you google how to safely and securely transfer files to the hard drive
    • I ordered a new hard drive
    • This is a super hard drive
    • This was far more affordable than a solid state drive, and I haven’t had any issues with speed or with the hardware
    • Even if you don't provide the software, your hard drive is still the best
    • (I bought a case for it for extra protection, so in practice the drive is a little bulkier than its direct measurements).
    • Solid little drive
    • I am switching to Passport external hard drive after this experience.
    • i liked the hard drive its very good , and so is the amazon services
    • This is exactly what my wife needed her iPhone was totally clogged up with pictures and notes after doing some research I was made aware of this hard drive by a coworker who has one when I was made aware of the capabilities of this device I ended up buying three of them one for my son one for my wife I want for myself
    • It's a very good hard drive, very fast and efficient
    • These external drives are very handy
    • Would recommend looking else where for a brand new portable hard drive
    • and that's when the hard drive is recognized which is practically never
    • This hard drive is wonderful,, works great !!!!!
    • Handy compact external hard drive with good softwares.
    • I needed a portable hard-drive to save tons of files from different devices, and overall this is pretty easy to use
    • This hard drive is working great
    • This external drive is awesome
    • After I got fed up with all the error messages I would receive using Windows 7 Backup and a 150gb Iomega portable drive, I thought I would see how much a new outboard drive would cost me.
    • nice Hard drive and it works with all my computers
    • Finally, I can do a full backup of my internal hard drive!
    • After searching on the web for an explanation, I found this -" A hard drive described as being a terrabyte is actually 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, the operating system reads in 1024KB
    • Best deal for 2TB hard drive.
    • The blue light lights up on the external hard drive but my computer does not know it is connected
    • BUY TOSHIBA HARD DRIVE
    • the best external hard drive in the world, reliable, fast, good looking
    • This is a nice little portable drive
    • "Unboxing & Usage of Toshiba Canvio Connect II & Amazonbasics external hard drive case".Thanks!1DoctorGenius
    • very Good hard Drive
    • The slightest movement will disconnect and eject the hard drive
    • I ordered this portable hard drive because it said it was Mac compatible.
    • The hard drive itself works fine but the main reason I purchased this particular product was the misleading product description
    • A true terrabyte hard drive should be 1099511627776 bytes (1024^4), but no such hard drive exists
    • Excellent drive so far
    • This is a great portable hard drive with tons of storage capacity
    • But I was informed by Toshiba tech support that it won't back up any attached hard drives or flash drives, which defeats the entire reason I bought this hard drive, as my main hard drive on my computer is pretty small
    • I still can't believe how inexpensive 2 terabyte drives are nowadays