Toshiba 2TB Canvio Basics Portable External Hard Drive, USB
Toshiba 2TB Canvio Basics Portable External Hard Drive, USB 3.2. Gen 1, Black (HDTB420EK3AA)
HIGH TRANSFER SPEEDS
Powered by USB 3.2 Gen 1 technology, these portable hard drives are much faster than – but still compatible with – USB 2.0 devices, allowing for speedy transfer when organising your files.
YOUR DATA IN SAFE HANDS
With over 50 years of experience in hard drive technology and unrivalled quality standards, Toshiba portable hard drives provide a reliable and secure place for your files, wherever you go.
EASY PLUG-AND-PLAY OPERATION
Simple plug-and-play operation. Ready to use with Microsoft Windows and no software installation required. Intuitively drag and drop files to and from your PC or laptop.
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| Capacities | 4 TB | 2 TB | 1TB | 4 TB | 2 TB | 1TB | 2 TB | 1TB | 4 TB | 2 TB | 1TB |
| Casing | Elegant Silver Finish | Sleek Black Finish | Aluminium Finish | Matte Finish |
| Colour | silver | black | silver, black | black |
| Windows Compatible | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mac Compatible | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tablet Compatible | ✓ | |||
| Game console compatible | ✓ | |||
| USB-A cable | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| USB-C cable | ✓ | |||
| Auto-backup software & password protection | ✓ |
| Weight: | 149 g |
| Dimensions: | 7.8 x 10.9 x 1.4 cm; 149.01 Grams |
| Brand: | Toshiba |
| Model: | HDTB420EK3AA |
| Colour: | 2TB |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | Toshiba |
| Dimensions: | 7.8 x 10.9 x 1.4 cm; 149.01 Grams |
I bought it cuz I needed extra storage for my daughter’s Ps4, initially it didn’t recognise it. But when I restarted the console & formatted the drive it worked totally fine.
Not always recognised by windows pc, but after a bit of googling, there are adjustments which can be made to the windows system to overcome this problem. At least it was not a problem with the hdd.
As my new laptop came with a much smaller hard drive than the old one, I needed extra storage for photos and videos as I am a keen photographer/videographer. It is easy to use – just plug and play. Good value for money if you don’t want to use cloud based storage facilities.
Why would you buy a 1TB external HDD for around 50 when you can buy 2TB external drive for about the same price? Bargain price for massive storage used this extra storage for my PS4 console – could also use on other consoles too, could use for PC also. The uses are endless – recommended purchase
This is the second one i’ve bought. It really is a cracking external hdd. Judging by the first one I bought, which is still going strong it gives me peace of mind when storing files etc. It is worth every penny.
Appraisal of this product
Did it arrive on time? Yes
Was it as described by the seller? Yes
Was the packing adequate? Yes
Has it proven to be “Good to use”? Yes, very much so
Any adverse remarks? No
Overall experience? Excellent
Do I recommend this product? Yes
I love these external drives. I have been using them for years with various different capacities from 500GB to 2TB. They are low cost, but they’re not cheap: they are well engineered and I have never had a single problem with any of these drives in nearly 10 years of using them.
Using a USB 3.x socket also gives you solid transfer rates for large amounts of data.
I would highly recommend them for storing whatever data you want to hold on to, long term.
Arrived on time. Easy to use and setup. Hasn’t caused any problems so far. Second one I’ve bought, the first is still working correctly two years later.
Needed these two download photos and films of my computer worked so far had no problems
Fab! So much memory, low cost. Works brilliantly. Can get a little loud when running sometimes when the fan kicks in. But brilliant none-the-less.
A little bit on the bulky side but I wouldn’t buy any other type of HDD as others that I’ve had have been rubbish, & as I’m running out of space on my 2TB HD I’ve just bought this 4TB HD & when I’ve got some extra cash I’ll get another one as a backup you just can’t beat the reliability of TOSHIBA & as I’ve got years of digital downloads some of which you can’t get anymore so I need something that’s going to last & be reliable that’s why I’ve gone for another TOSHIBA, it’s also fast at transferring data & it doesn’t get over heated if your using it all the time when connected to your TV with my computer I use a cooling fan just to be safe EXCELLENT PRODUCT 10 OUT OF 10.
Pleased with this. So compact and it has a fast upload/ download.
Good quality, easy to sue and a great replacement for WD products, have replaced all my WD items with these now, I have now brought 5 of them!
Purchased as a backup device and would accept data at a speed which I would describe as typical had I not recently tried two alternatives which proved much, much slower.
Storage at a good price, I’ve always trusted Toshiba drives, it’s not overly noisy and is nice and compact.
The read write times are on the low spec but don’t let that put you off, it’s still fast enough for most things.
I tried several times , but couldn’t connect to my MacBook
Would have preferred USB c but when you have a limited budget you can’t have everything
A nice high capacity portable drive. It’s built fairly solid and I’ve had no issues with its performance or build quality so far.
My only gripe is that the drive will put itself to sleep after a short while if not used. This is built into the drive and cannot be turned off. It only takes a few seconds for it to spin back up, but it’s frustrating when working from the drive if you have to wait a couple of seconds for video playback to start, etc, and only serves to add more time to the already tedious process of video editing when working from the drive. It also means the drive might go to sleep and interrupt a process if left unattended whilst doing a background process like generating proxies or rendering.
MacOS already has the option to put drives to sleep when not in use, and I’m sure Windows will have a similar option too, so I’m not sure why Toshiba built this into the drive.
Still using this drive and has been reliable and a great buy from Amazon. Recently after receiving a VIP code for a PlayStation 5 I sold my PlayStation 4 and now on the latest gen. I hooked everything up the same but this time you want to plug the Toshiba hard drive to the back of the PlayStation 5 as it has x2 USB 3.0 ports. I’ve copied some games to it and it’s still been fine and have been running PlayStation 4 games on it such as Wolfenstein Alt Collection, Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1 & 2, Serious Sam etc and has worked flawlessly.
This drive will also store your PlayStation 5 games on it but won’t be able to run them as it’s not a SSD so not compatible for that but for storage and being able to run those PlayStation 4 Disc and Digital games it’s still a top gem.
At the end of the day it’s an external hard drive and like any other 3.0 with a usb they will work for Playstation or Xbox. If they have their own format tool which they do you won’t have any problems. The first thing that comes up once you’ve connected it and powered on the console a message saying “Not Compatable”. Well it actually is it’s just that it’s not formatted and more like it’s been pre formatted to NTFS which is what windows use. Once you have formatted it, it takes literally seconds that’s it.
Once you go to your system settings scroll down to Devices, USB Storage Devices, External USB 3.0 Toshiba. There it will ask you to format to an extended storage.
Please note, once you have done this the preferred drive will be the external one, I’d suggest to use the internal hard drive for main storage as it will be more cooled from the fan inside the console.
If you have say The Last Of Us which is about 50GB move that over to the external drive as there isn’t anymore updates for that game now. While on the subject keep games like Red Dead Redemption 2 on the main drive I only say as with new games your going to get a lot of updates like still Grand Theft Auto 5 and running the external drive constantly with the updates ploughing at it every day or so wouldn’t be good for it.
I haven’t tried any of the games running off it yet but from what I read online they run faster apparently.
I would recommend a 4TB hard drive as after the format with the systems own volume putting its own data on your left with about 3.5TB