Toshiba Canvio 1 TB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive for Mac E05A100ABU2XY (Radiant Silver)

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Product Description

Toshiba Canvio Portable Hard Drive. Canvio for Mac products have been designed and manufactured in accordance with Toshiba’s high quality product standards, incorporating the latest technology and user-interface, while ensuring best-in-class performance, quality and workmanship. With Toshiba’s Canvio for Mac Portable Hard Drives, you’ll enjoy portable storage space for even the largest digital libraries. Our 1 TB Drive is capable of storing up to: 285,000 digital photos, or 263,000 digital music files, or 820 downloaded digital movies. Each Canvio for Mac Portable Hard Drive includes an internal shock sensor and ramp loading technology to help keep your drive safe.

Details

• Secures your backup with a password (Data Encryption, up to 256-bit)
• Protects your drive (Internal Shock Sensor and Ramp Loading Technology)
• Gives you peace of mind (Toshiba 3-Year Limited Warranty)
• Our 1 TB Drive is capable of storing up to: 285,000 digital photos, or 263,000 digital music files, or 820 downloaded digital movies
• Computer backup made simple; Canvio Portable Hard Drives are preloaded with software to make backup simple

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

(22 customer reviews)

22 Reviews

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Great Product

by Andy (August 6, 2010)

53 of 55 people found this review helpful

12/17/10 Important edit. This works for both mac & pc out of box, you do not need to format. Not one problem with this device.

The product comes with a Dmg file within the main drive that can be deleted. It is not required to be installed as this is a plug and play drive, but the program that is included can clone the mac incase you ever need to transfer files to a new mac, back up folders and sync folders. Problem is, you need to use these options to have files encrypted and thus you cannot delete files on the mac without deleting the encrypted ones on the HD. Otherwise, all you can do is copy and paste which is what some people want in a HD

The drive's color matches that of the Macbook pro 2010 and the usb 2.0 cable that is included matches or exceeds the whiteness of Apple's magsafe cord and iPod touch recharging wire. The cord is a bit thicker, feels sturdy but looks bulky for the rather short length, which is about 8 inches.

When the Hd is in use,... Read more

Great

by Hell's Belle "Hell's Belle" (October 29, 2010)

21 of 23 people found this review helpful

I plugged it into my laptop (MacBook Pro, purchased 02/2010) and it immediately opened Time Machine and asked about backing up my laptop. It worked like a charm!

Great results so far

by David Arnstein (January 4, 2011)

12 of 12 people found this review helpful

I have two of these little drives, both 1 TB capacity. So far, they are both trouble-free. For both drives, I have done a 1 terabyte write (20 hours) followed by a 340 GByte write/read (17 hours). No problems.

The drive can be formatted for Windows or Linux if you don't use Macintosh. There is nothing Mac-specific about the hardware. There is Mac-specific software present on the disk called Shadow 5. I blew it away, since Time Machine suits my needs.

These drives use a standard mini-USB 2.0 connector. Similar products are moving to either micro-USB 2.0, or USB 3.0. From personal experience, and from reading reviews, I see that these newer connectors fail when jiggled, even gently. Bad.

I suggest stocking up now. Toshiba might have the most reliable drives of this type, but they too are moving to newer, defective connectors.

These drives are fairly slow, but extremely compact and convenient (no power cord). You have to decide for yourself. Do... Read more

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Toshiba Canvio 1 TB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive for Mac E05A100ABU2XY (Radiant Silver)