Toshiba Canvio Plus 750 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive E05A075PBU2XY (Satin Silver)

by Toshiba

Product Details

• Item Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B003HFG298
• Item model number: E05A075PBU2XY
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (119 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #385 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

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  Electronics > Computers & Accessories > Memory Cards & External Storage > External Hard Drives

• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

Capacity: 750 GB | Color: Silver

From the Manufacturer

Toshiba Canvio Portable Hard Drive

Simple Backup, Portability, and Reliable Toshiba Quality. All Rolled Into One.

Toshiba’s new Canvio Portable Hard Drives offer portable storage up to 1TB of capacity for your photos, music, videos, and more. Enjoy peace of mind with a comprehensive yet simple-to-use backup software that lets you backup and restore your entire system. Each Canvio Portable Hard Drive includes an internal shock sensor and a stylish, anti-slip design to help keep your drive safe while on the go.

Features & Benefits:

Simple-to-Use NTI Backup Now EZ Software Included On Drive:

• File & Folder Backup — Finds all movies, pictures, and music to backup
  

• Simple Restore — Click the Restore button to recover a file or folder
  

• Complete System Backup —Keeps a copy of everything on your computer, including the OS
  

• System Recovery — Boot to the drive and restore your entire system
  

• Data Encryption — Secures your backup with a password with a data encryption up to 256-bit
  

• Customized Backup — Customize your backup preference and schedule
  

• Drive Space Alert — Alerts you when running low on backup space

What's In the Box

• Toshiba Canvio Portable Hard Drive
• Preloaded Backup Software
• USB 2.0 Cable
• Quick Start Guide
• Three Year Limited Warranty

Product Description

Toshiba Canvio Portable Hard Drive. Canvio 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 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 Portable Hard Drive includes an internal shock sensor and ramp loading technology to help keep your drive safe.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

127 of 137 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Least Expensive Notebook/MacBook Pro Hard Drive Upgrade - External or Internal, June 5, 2010

By	SanjeevP "Bottom Line" (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)    (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

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This review is from: Toshiba Canvio Plus 1.0 TB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive E05A100PBU2XK (Raven Black) (Electronics)

As of June 2010, this Toshiba is the best value for money amongst 1 Tb portable hard drives. The competition includes Western Digital My Passport SE for Mac 1 TB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive WDBABW0010BSL-NESN (Silver) and Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 TB Ultra-Portable External Hard Drive STAA1000100 (Black) both of which are more expensive than Toshiba Canvio.

Out of the box, it comes as NTFS formatted drive and works only on Windows computers. It even comes with Windows backup software, which I have not used.

For just Mac use, you have to reformat the hard drive as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive Journaled). Once reformatted, it works flawlessly as an external drive or Time Machine.

Here is the formatting summary:

FOR WINDOWS ONLY USE - format as NTFS - the format it comes in.
FOR BOTH WINDOWS & MAC USE -format it as MS DOS (Fat 32) but then it does not work as a Time Machine.
TO USE AS MAC ONLY & TIME MACHINE - format as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive, Journaled) - which does not work in Windows.

It is small, sleek, light, quiet and as of June 2010 the biggest capacity portable USB drive. Over the years I have used numerous portable hard drives, most of them Western Digital & Lacie, and they all worked well; only one Fantom hard drive died. This is my first Toshiba hard drive and I have not used this Toshiba Canvio long enough to comment on its longevity but it seems to be functioning well and as of now it is the best value for money.

UPDATE (August 18, 2010): The deal gets even better. As of now, this drive is available for less than hundred bucks at Dell Home and can be taken out of the enclosure to replace the drive in unibody aluminum Macbook Pros. This is the cheapest way to upgrade MacBook Pro (or notebook) hard drive!

STEPS:
1). Format Canvio as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive, Journaled).
2). Clone your MacBook Pro drive: Insert MacOS disk in MacBook Pro and reboot while holding the C key
3). When Disk Utility opens, click the source and destination drives (Canvio) and hit Restore. You can also use SuperDuper and CarbonCopy to clone the hard drive.
4). Extract the cloned drive out of the enclosure: Pry open the top cover using a sharp knife and twisting at multiple places along the perimeter between the black squared top cover and grey rubber side (search YouTube "open Canvio"- excellent video).
5). Remove SATA & USB connector from Canvio hard drive.
6). Replace your MacBook Pro drive with the Canvio you just extracted.
7). You just got yourself a 1 Tb MacBook Pro hard drive. Plus you got yourself a 2.5 inch hard drive enclosure where you can insert the original MacBook drive you just removed. Now you are ready to fill the new drive with more junk!

If it looks difficult, search on YouTube and you will find several separate videos showing all these steps. Macinstruct webs site has detailed descriptions of hard drive cloning and YouTube, several videos.

I have not used it for Windows notebook drives, but I guess it should work for 9.5 mm and thicker 2.5 inch SATA drives. It is 5400 RPM and I am not sure 7200 RPM 1 Tb is even available in 2.5 inch drives as of now. With a little bit of ingenuity & trouble, you get least expensive 1 Tb internal drive.

75 of 81 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice, new model, May 16, 2010

By	JE (San Antonio, TX) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toshiba Canvio Plus 640 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive E05A064CAU2XG (Komodo Green) (Electronics)

I've had the previous version of the Toshiba portable hard drives, and this model makes nice improvements. The case is smaller with textured rubber all along the edges. Also, this drives gets recognized faster than the previous Toshiba models, and data transfer seems faster, though I haven't done any concrete tests. The colors are more appealing to me.

The only thing I don't like, which others may or may not agree with, is that the LED light indicating power and activity is much, much brighter than the previous model. The previous model was a small, dimly lit dot, and this model has a larger rectangular LED that's annoying. I won't detract any stars from that because it's very fixable with a small bit of electrical tape.

Overall, this is a very good purchase.

60 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Small price, large capacity, May 20, 2010

By	Amazon electronics buyer (Anchorage, AK United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toshiba Canvio Plus 1.0 TB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive E05A100PBU2XK (Raven Black) (Electronics)

931GB formatted capacity. Fairly fast for and external drive. No auto install backup software. Standard USB cable. Small size. Runs cool. What more could you ask for?

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