Toshiba - Canvio Connect II 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive - Black

I just opened my mailing package from BestBuy.com containing the Toshiba 1 TB drive that I ordered online. Someone in quality control or order returns needs to be fired! The drive inside the new looking package is far from new. The plastic bag containing the usb cable has been torn open. The Toshiba drive inside the clear plastic tray (that covers front and back of the drive) has visible "dust" on it (no I'm not kidding). When I took it out of the plastic tray, the top of the black drive has so many scratches on it that it was not hard to tell this was a used drive that someone returned as new. The rubber feet on the bottom are also worn down. Where is the quality control, Best Buy? I am so disappointed that you sent out a product that was obviously returned by a previous customer and it was not checked out before it was sent to a customer who paid for a "new" drive.

Bought this in preparation of upgrading to windows 10 because I wanted to remove all of my pictures and files and documents from the computer prior to installing windows 10. Works great for that, everything transferred over quickly and without issue. The pogoplug companion app that you get a "lifetime" access too that allows you to stream content on your hard drive to other devices with internet connection DID work.....it had some quirks to it but it did work. HOWEVER, after upgrading to windows 10 the pogoplug no longer recognized the fact that it was registered to my computer and would no longer allow me access. I even went into the pogoplug account settings and deactivated the original registration and reactivated it for windows 10 and it still didn't work. I tried contacting pogoplug multiple times and weeks later now and I still have not heard a reply from them!. bad customer service. I believe they refer to the service as a $49.99 value. So if you ask me, I got jipped out of $49.99!

This is my first Toshiba external drive, and have only owned it for a few months now, so it's a little to early say..good or bad. It looks and performs well, but like other people, I had problems using it on some computers (two of my newer computers); (device manager would see it, but explorer wouldn’t) Went on the Internet and discovered the solution, here it is: Problem solution: (Best solution for drive not visible or recognized) a b $ Windows 7 July 20, 2014 12:54:14 AM 1) Control panel===>administrative tools===>computer management===>Disk management 2) You'll see a list of Disks (and partition's) and DVD's (if you have any) and you'll probably see something like Disk 1 with no partition letter assigned 3) Right mouse click and choose Change drive letter and paths ===> add chose a letter from the drop down and the drive will be available. · http://support.toshiba.com/support/modelHome?freeText=1200009802

I bought this Toshiba - Canvio Connect II 1TB after my previous Toshiba portable drive crashed. It was about 7 years old and had been a trusted back-up device. After consulting with IT friends who assured me that hard drives are bound to crash sooner or later which is why you never want a single point of failure, I decided that Toshiba was still great at what it does and and bought another. Since then I managed to recover my first Toshiba and now have data backed up on both drives. So here is what mattered to me: 1. Transfer rate: Acceptable. I have a 8+ year old laptop (if you can't tell, I don't believe in replacing electronics unless they are absolutely unrecoverable) and couldn't really notice any problems. 2. Durable: Feels fine. If it's anything like my old Toshiba which survived multiple falls over 7 years, it'll work for me. 3. Dependable: No crashes so far but it's still new...

Got this for my mom as she wanted to free up some space on her iPhone, and only has an old laptop computer with barely 100gb of space. Instead of getting a 64gb usb drive for around $20-$30, I told her this would be a better investment for her use. She can save all her pictures from her old computers, iPhone, etc. It does have the Canvio Connect, but my mom wasn't too crazy about being able to access her content online (where she thinks it's too risky, "you never know"). I don't blame her, and will probably set up something for her to access the disk directly via team viewer or something. I didn't install much of their software onto the computer, just the main one to get it running (ran automatically I believe). I skipped the rest, didn't back up the whole computer or set up auto backups, but I know this device does do this. Instead we're just doing drag and drop for now :)

This does the job advertised at a good price. I've only had the drive for a month, so I can't attest to its long term durability, but I've taken it around the united states where it has been bounced around in my bag and been dropped a couple times from a couple feet off the ground to carpet. Still works fine. I was concerned that it wouldn't do HD video well, because most portable drives like this run at 5600rpms and most video editors require 7200rpms to get good video. Also a lot of portable drives use green drives that spin down when you aren't pressing play, so you might get a delay when you press play before it gets up to speed. I don't know the specs on this drive, but I didn't experience any problems using this drive to edit HD video on AVID editing software on a laptop. So... no problems so far.

This is a good drive when at a good sale price, anywhere between $50-75 is right for 1TB. The design is nice and ease of functionality is good. Here's a helpful troubleshooting tip. If your drive starts to make a metallic clicking noise, it might mean you lack power to operate it. I had mine plugged into a multi-USB hub, not directly into the computer, and the overall overtaxing of the hub with multiple devices plugged in, impacted this drive and it started to malfunction operating. Once I freed up the hub (ideally, plugging it into a direct exclusive port is best, but not always an option for some users) and minimized the overusage, the drive became silent again and operational.

I was on the look out for an external HDD to add storage for my Xbox One. After a few days of browsing deals and reviews, came across this Toshiba HDD. It's a 1TB drive with a speed of 5400 RPMs. It comes with it's own USB cable and was definitely easy to install. The console formatted the drive quickly. Only downside was because the RPMs are average when it comes to HDDs, the moving of the data from the console to the drive took about 50 mins or so. Other than that, it works great, it's compact so it won't take up space and it doesn't need an external power supply as the USB cable connection is more than serviceable.