Toshiba - Canvio Connect 1TB External USB 3.0/2.0 Portable Hard Drive - Silver

Really a great little hard drive. Easy to install and understand how it works. It comes with some extra files and stuff that I don't know how to use or what they're for but it doesn't seem to be a problem overall. Small enough to carry anywhere!

I bought thus during a sale at an excellent price for 1TB of USB 3.0 storage in a slim form factor. The device performs well despite negative reviews found on Amazon and Toshiba's website. I've had it for about 1 month and it hasn't died. It stays plugged in to my desktop and always powers on and shows up in my drive list in the file explorer. Transfer speeds were more than adequate with the included USB 3.0 cable. It draws power from the cable which is a huge plus. My much larger 2TB backup drive needed a bulky AC adapter. So long power cable hassle! Can I vouch for long-term? No. But it appears to be solid. Drive does include 143MB of pre-installed software, driver files, and PDF manuals. Total available space shows as 931GB. Long story short, 4 stars for the past incident-free 4 weeks of ownership.

excellent lightweight hard drive and Very good price.

I have purchased many of these USB Portable Hard Drives. They're great when you need to store and mail large files or to use as backups for your personal information.

We bought two of these little 1TB drives over two years ago, and have used them hard. One we use for movies when we go camping, and the other is used for backing up our photos when we travel. They are compact, lightweight and fast (for a mechanical hard drive). We have never had a problem with either of them. Note, we did recently buy a new Samsung 500GB external SSD drive as a second backup for our photos, and it is so much smaller, lighter and light-years faster, but it was also about four times as much! So for cheap, reliable external storage, I would still recommend these Toshiba drives.

I use portable HDs quite often, for backups or to store different type of digital archives ... 1TB+ capacity had become bulky and not very "portable". This is the second compact HD I bought. The first I had with these interface fails to connect very often ... this has been very reliable, I haven't had the opportunity to test the anti-shock sensor ... but it was one of the features that made it attractive. For 1TB the prince was unbeatable. I have not installed Pogoplug PC software, that is supposed to provide remote (Cloud) access to data. I haven't tested its Mac compatibilty (my others compact HDs are) it is advertised as compatible with both OS(s)

Great hard drive, but the back-up software included with it is poor. I backed up my computer when i got this and 4 weeks later my computer crashed causing me to eventually have to re-install the operating system. Sadly i lost almost half of it when i tried to re-install it. I have since gotten better software and i use this hard-drive for backing up my TV. It's quiet and fast thru the usb 3 connection. I'd probably buy it again but ONLY for a storage use. At 49 bucks it was a good deal. Easy setup up and running in less than 3 mnutes

I have never used an external hard drive and I needed a hard drive that would let me take files, pictures, and music from my OLD PC to my new MAC. I was worried about any extra steps or compatibility issues. This was so EASY! I didn't have to configure anything and it was FAST. I did a lot if research and the price was phenomenal! Especially considering it has more storage than I will ever need. I hope it last for years to come.