Toshiba USB 2.0, 500 GB Portable Hard Dive HDDR500E04XL
Toshiba’s portable hard drive has simplified computer backup. It is easy to use backup software for Mac and Windows users. This external hard drive is powered by USB 2.0, and it provides freedom of carrying your files just about anywhere. Even for your largest digital libraries you can enjoy mobile storage space with Toshiba’s portable hard drive. You can store in a single 500 GB external drive up to 142,000 digital photos, 410 downloaded digital movies or 131,000 digital music files.
There are number of external drives that are powered directly from USB but cannot spin up without a 2-1 USB cable for extra energy. Toshiba’s portable external hard drive is one of the few units that does not need two USB ports and works flawlessly. Thus, this portable external hard drive does not need external power adapter. It is very light in weight similar to a iPod and has beautiful design. While using, sometimes it causes some clicking noise and stops transferring data.
When I purchased Toshiba’s portable external hard drive about a month back to use as a backup storage for my Dell desktop running Windows XP home and a Macbook Air, it worked fine with both without any problem in getting power from USB ports. I found its portability much useful for taking it to my office and taking backups and it easily offers adequate storage space for my office computer as well as both the home computers.
This external portable hard drive is readily formatted with FAT32 and to save large backup files of around 40 GB, you need to reformat it with NTFS. A partition of this drive can be formatted with HFS if you need for Mac-book Air. You can use bundled NTI Shadow for safety while saving backup music files and pictures from digital camera. It is very easy to backup files also simple to restore if any emergency arises.
Without a speck of doubt I can say that Toshiba’s portable hard drive works beautifully and flawlessly. But sometimes its short cable that is about 8” long needs to be handled with great care while using portable drive to supplement a laptop’s storage. There is a possibility of its falling off the laptop onto the floor if you will move laptop slightly and this may render the drive dead. It would have been better if it were possible to use a longer USB cable with the drive. When I tried to use other USB cable it didn’t work and worked with only proprietary USB cable.
While considering the pros and cons of the Toshiba’s portable hard drive, despite some limitations, this drive is very useful for backup storage of your important data, files, photos and music, and after buying you will be satisfied with it. Click here to read more about this external hard drive.
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Toshiba is a nice product to use but the speed of the data transfer is very slow and can anybody tell me to solve this problem.
I have this hard drive and I am sorry I bought it. It comes a a virtual cd on it so you can install the hardware that you may or may not want. Then, the worst part is, it shuts itself off. Making my Mac display an error message about disconnecting a device without properly ejecting it. Tech support was ridiculous and boiled down to “yes, it does that and we have to try to figure out why.” I’m researching other possibilities.
sorry for the confusion, my comment was meant for the Toshiba 1tb.
Thanks Mark for your words. I bet my readers appreciate this info.
Good information about external hard drives, although they are many faster external hard drives these days than 500 gb.
Hello.
Can you help me??>>
I bought an external usb hdd “toshiba”, and I put my information in it, after a two days, the external usb hdd had locked or blocked, and I can’t enter the drive of external usb hdd of toshiba, and there is a massage appear when I click on it:
“the drive is not accessible” and
“the request cannot be performed because of an I/O Error.”
pleae please..quickly quickly…
can you give me a solution without lossing any information form my external usb hdd.
and I’ll be thankful for you….
my external usb hdd is about 320 GB
I’m waiting your solution….