Toshiba Canvio Plus 1 TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive E05A100PBU3XS (Black)

by Toshiba

• Transfers your large media files at blazing fast speeds with USB 3.0.
• Backwards compatible with USB 2.0.
• Provides file, folder, and full system backup and recovery with pre-loaded backup software.
• Secures your backup with a password (Data Encryption, up to 256-bit).
• Protects your drive (Internal Shock Sensor and Ramp Loading Technology).

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.7 x 3.1 x 0.6 inches ; 6.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0041RS5LY
• Item model number: E05A100PBU3XS
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (260 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 5, 2010

Product Description

Capacity: 1 TB

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Product Description

Toshiba Canvio 3.0 Plus Portable Hard Drive - Canvio 3.0 Plus 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 3.0 Plus Portable Hard Drives, you’ll enjoy portable storage space for even the largest digital libraries. Our 1.0TB Drive is capable of storing up to: 285,000 digital photos, or 263,000 digital music files, or 820 downloaded digital movies. Each Canvio 3.0 Plus Portable Hard Drive includes an internal shock sensor and ramp loading technology to help keep your drive safe. Computer backup made fast and simple. Canvio 3.0 Plus Portable Hard Drives are preloaded with software to make backup fast and simple. The included NTI Backup Now EZ software scans your system and recommends the best coverage for your computer. Choose between backing up your files and folders, backing up everything saved on your computer, or choose both for the most comprehensive coverage. Click the restore button and you can recover a file or folder. Boot to your Canvio 3.0 Plus Portable Hard Drive and it will restore all the files saved on your computer. We’ve even included a utility to burn a boot CD/DVD to make the process even simpler. Secure your backup files with password-protected data encryption, (up to 256-bit), to help keep your backup safe and prevent unauthorized access. The Drive Space Alert monitor will keep an eye on your drive and let you know when it is getting full. For advanced users, we’ve added the ability to customize your backup routine. Options include the ability to select the most common file types, change how often your backup takes place (hourly, daily, weekly, etc.) and change the threshold settings on the Drive Space Alert. Toshiba Canvio 3.0 Plus Portable Drives are compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

159 of 166 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Size Good, Connector Bad October 27, 2010

By M. Tucker Bradford

Size Name:1 TB|Amazon Verified Purchase

I bought this drive because the capacity was right and Toshiba has a fairly good track record. The main problem with it so far (<8 hrs in) is that the connector continually falls out of the drive end while I'm transferring files.This is my first experience with USB-3 and it may just be a weakness of the mini-socket spec, but its making me livid. I probably won't send this back, but I wouldn't recommend a friend buy one either.

194 of 204 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars I second many other reviewers here. December 28, 2010

By Michael

Size Name:1 TB|Amazon Verified Purchase

BAD USB CABLE DESIGN

Do these people not test their own stuff or what? Anyone using these drives more than a few times will know the cable is crap and will not connect half the time and disconnects sometimes while using. It is that poorly designed... I have the old model and had no issues at all.. now they come out with a new model with a crappy cable. Doesn't matter how good/nice the drive is if you can't use it half the time.

I hope these reviews are a wake up call to the company to actually test their product before going to production.

190 of 206 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars very touchy and usb 3.0 causes issues on 2.0 ports October 17, 2010

By Christina Clement

Size Name:1 TB

a few things on this hard drive:

* we're disappointed with the usb3.0 - it works fine with a 3.0 port on our newer computer, but we can't play movies off of the hard drive through a 2.0 port on our older computer without having issues

* it's extremely touchy - moving it even a little while connected will cause the connection at the hard drive to separate and therefore interrupt your data flow.