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Pros & Cons
Pros
I am super pleased with this purchase and love how easy it is to use. Had to get this for my daughter for college. But for now, this drive is a winner.
Easy to use and lightweight. Comes with a usb-a (older style) too. 4tb. usb-c & usb 3.
Cons
Piece of garbage. Total piece of junk. Very disappointed. But not anymore.
It spins and spins and refuses to load. Then once done, it crashes/dies and bricks out within 3 days at most. The warranty process is such a nightmare.
Toshiba's ssd drive is slow and can't be used as a portable backup. It's better to buy a solid state drive and use a usb stick instead.
Tried rebooting in safe mode, uninstalling old apps, removing login items, replacing usb hub. Got message that the finder is still using the drive and i might lose data if i force eject. Was thankfully able to erase the volume and am returning this ga... Read More
Highlights
Quality
Easy set up and storage device for backing up all my files
The product works perfectly fine, the housing doesn't feel too cheap, transfers data quickly, and conveniently comes with usb-c... Read More
I had wd drives previously and they all (3 of them) failed.
In reality, it took 5 hours to copy 52 gb data off my old wd drive.
Price
At ~ $25/tb, i'm quite happy with this external hard drive.
Type-c was the buying point for this and coupled with the price, it was lovely.
You won't find anything cheaper than this.
A bit slow, but good for the price at the time.
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- This product had a total of 7,414 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 9 2024.
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I had a removable drive fail on me
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All i could access was the zipped file so i had to open each individual picture in the zipped file if i wanted to look at them
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I wanted to have the photos stored unzipped someplace
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I copied the zipped file to this new toshiba drive and then unzipped it
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It didnt take very long for all my restored directories and pictures to appear
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Only difficulty is that my laptop wants to inform me there has been no backup for many many days
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I have only had this a short time
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I got it because i had two backup drives i did not like because they were not showing up readily on my computer screen
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