Toshiba Canvio 750 GB USB 3.0 Basics Portable Hard Drive – HDTB107XK3AA(Black)

Rating: List Price: $99.99 Sale Price: $61.43 (as of 05/06/2013 18:39 UTC - Details) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Canvio Basics 3.0 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 Basics 3.0 Portable Hard Drives, you'll enjoy portable storage space for even the largest digital libraries. Our 750GB Drive is capable of storing up to: 214,000 digital photos, or 197,000 digital music files, or 610 downloaded digital movies.Each Canvio Basics 3.0 Portable Hard Drive includes an internal shock sensor and ramp loading technology to help keep your drive safe. Storage for your computer made simple. Future proof with USB 3.0 interface and backwards compatible with USB 2.0, Toshiba's Canvio Basics 3.0 Portable Hard Drives are an ideal portable add-on storage expansion solution that makes your storage easy and simple. Extremely portable with a compact design, the sleek looking and post card sized Canvio Basics 3.0 Portable Hard Drives are an ideal travel companion. Canvio Basics 3.0 Portable Hard Drives offer plug and play ease of use that's ready to go out of the box with no software to install. Just connect it to the USB port on your computer and you are good to go. Whether for work, school, or digital entertainment, Canvio Basics 3.0 Portable Hard Drives accommodate large digital files with spacious storage capacity. You can rest assured that there is a Canvio Basics 3.0 Portable Hard Drive that meets your storage needs and your lifestyle. Toshiba Canvio Basics 3.0 Portable Drives are compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. For over 20 years Toshiba has been developing and manufacturing hard drives used by every major brand of notebook computer.
It is compatible with drag and drop but needs to be reformatted in order to be used with time machine back-up.

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Please Read if Your Drive Isn't "Recognized" Anymore. An Easy Primer and Tutorial.

by TMac (February 21, 2012)

263 of 275 people found this review helpful

Many people have complained about the Toshiba 2.5" drives (of all capacities and price points) quickly 'dying' after a very short time. This opinion is prevalent on both Amazon and other shopping sites and even Toshiba's direct site itself.

I was in the same boat. My Canvio Basics failed to be "recognized" by my PC within 1 month. My 2-star rating reflects this.

HOWEVER, this is directed toward those who believe "all [my] valuable data is lost forever". I conjecture that 99% of the time it is not, and there is a relatively very simple & inexpensive fix.

The problem is most likely not with the drive itself but rather the 'bridge' circuitry between the drive and the USB connection. There is most likely nothing wrong with the drive itself, and thus nor is there anything wrong with your data. Such was also the case with me.

These drives, regardless of manufacturer or capacity, are essentially identical in their 'guts'. The difference is often... Read more

An all-around good deal and both Mac and PC compatible...

by Charles Bittner "Disabled comedian & gamer!" (August 1, 2012)

122 of 133 people found this review helpful

At the time of writing this review this drive was $54.99 - a friend needed an external hard drive to back up her Mac (Time Machine Drive) and I wanted to get it with free prime shipping and as was the cheapest that had prime. At 320 GB that is more space than most people are ever going to need for backing up a notebook/MacBook. The drive is USB 3.0 and 2.0 compatible so get pretty decent transfer speeds as you would expect.

If you're a Mac user you will need to bring up the disk utility (found in your utilities folder in the applications folder) and format the drive to something that the Mac can read and write to (HTFS+is the file system that is default format of OS X) but once you reformatted your good to go.

And this drive is sleek looking and is really ultraportable and I'm a big fan of drives that draw their power from the USB port this means you don't have to carry around an extra wall wart (a.k.a. AC adapter). and I want to note that you could spend a... Read more

Good basic portable HDD

by No Hassle Guy "No Hassle Guy" (December 5, 2011)

53 of 58 people found this review helpful

Toshiba Canvio 1.0 TB USB 3.0 Basics Portable Hard Drive - HDTB110XK3BA (Black)
I have this drive for only one day.
This review is for people who are thinking about a portable USB 3 drive.
A few reviewers has posted problems with a different version of this drive.

I was concerned about having trouble with my computers' USB 2 ports not able to support this drive.
I found out that it has no problem with USB 2 ports on my 1 yr old desk top and 3 yr old laptop.
It came with 15 inch long USB 3 cable which works fine.
I was also able to use my old 3 feet USB 2 cable for my Logitech Harmony just fine with this drive. That saves me one cable as I hate to have too many cables on my desk. It does not accept standard mini-USB jack that I use for all other portable HDDs that I have because USB 3 jack... Read more

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Toshiba Canvio 750 GB USB 3.0 Basics Portable Hard Drive - HDTB107XK3AA(Black)