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Toshiba 500GB Canvio® Basics USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive
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5 out of 5 |
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Great little drive, seamless with OSX
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November 23, 2012
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by Oz
from Wellington, New Zealand
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| Great drive, I love the fact it's got a shock sensor and ramp loading technology. Many other big players such as WD and Seagate don't offer this on their budget drives. I love the simplicity and small size of the Canvio. It works seamlessly with OSX Snow Leopard formatted for HFS+. Many people are blaming Windows for not detecting it, I say if you buy a cheap computer with a rubbish OS don't blame the HDD, blame the operating system for not including drivers and support for a basic HDD. With the shock sensor, ramp loading system and 3 year warranty I think it's a pretty safe buy if you're concerned about reliability. As with any hard disk drive you've gotta be careful and not move it while in use otherwise it'll be toast! But so far so good. |
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TechSavvy
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Less than a week
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5 out of 5 |
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Great little drive
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March 19, 2013
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by webspider
from Iowa
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| Read reviews, do not understand the poor reviews.I own 2 of these. One for system backup on win 7, the other for files on both 2.0 and 3.0 systems. I have win7 pro 64, Quad Xeon system and XP system. Plugged it in, works. I do not install the software on the drive. See no need for it. |
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TechSavvy
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One week to a month
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5 out of 5 |
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Excellent Portable Drive!
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March 21, 2013
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by G-man
from Dayton, OH
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5 out of 5 |
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| Worked perfect straight out of the box! No software pre-installed to hog up space - very nice!! |
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Less than a week
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Not bad
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April 8, 2013
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by Ric
from Toronto
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5 out of 5 |
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| I have 2 of those. No problem after using for 2 or 3 years. |
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ProficientUser
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| How long have you been using this product?
More than a year
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4 out of 5 |
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Hardware Good / Software Bad
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March 2, 2012
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by Kemahsabe
from Houston, TX
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| Great little drive. Very portable. Blazing fast on USB 3.0. The included backup software is a different story. It not only didn't work, it caused problems. So I uninstalled it. |
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ProficientUser
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One month to a year
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4 out of 5 |
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Toshiba Is The Best
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December 8, 2012
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by I
from New Jersey
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5 out of 5 |
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| Very Nice External HD & I Love it. |
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One week to a month
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3 out of 5 |
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Average hard drive
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March 25, 2012
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by Tiger
from kanpur
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1 out of 5 |
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| I bought this hard drive for my official use. It is very expensive but performance is good but not enough with it's price. USB 3.0 is good |
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One week to a month
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3 out of 5 |
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Toshiba Canvio 500 GB
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July 13, 2012
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by piperbarney
from Myanmar
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3 out of 5 |
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| I bought the drive before coming here to Myanmar (Burma) because of my previous experience with Toshiba electronic proudcts. It has worked fine - even the auto backup which I like. But - now I want to delete some backups and can't find documentation anywhere. If you know of some - please let me know where to find it. |
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ProficientUser
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More than a year
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2 out of 5 |
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Connector intermittent
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September 4, 2012
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by jschneid
from Illinois
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3 out of 5 |
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| I've had this device for about a year. The drive worked as advertised, but the USB connector on the drive case is now intermittent. I will now find out if their warranty service is any good. |
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One month to a year
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1 out of 5 |
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Non-existent documentation
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February 22, 2012
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by Larry
from Stockbridge, GA
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| We bought this backup drive because of the Toshiba name and our experience with their other electronics which come fully documented with well written instructions. All they provided was a small booklet devoted to explaining their limited warranty. We are still trying to figure out how to extract our files. |
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One week to a month
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1 out of 5 |
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Stopped working
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January 30, 2013
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by gldn51
from Mill Valley,ca
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| Stopped workin after a couple months, plug it in it spins then turns itself off. Not recognized, Put less than 100g on it and won't work. Very dissapointed in Toshiba. |
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One month to a year
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1 out of 5 |
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Toshiba Canvio 3.0
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March 1, 2013
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by Nan
from San Jose Ca
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| Bought it, plugged it in. Nothing. No directions. Looked at the web site. Horrible reviews and same complaint. Put it back in the box and will return. Waste of time and gas. Who ever heard of a product with no information on it in the package? Strange... |
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1 out of 5 |
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Intermitent Cable
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May 17, 2013
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by Disappointed
from Michigan
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3 out of 5 |
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3 out of 5 |
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3 out of 5 |
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| The main issue I have withthe product is the connector on the HD is intermitent. I would like to see Toshiba send out a replacement cable to their customers that fixes the problem. |
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1 out of 5 |
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Hate it
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February 18, 2013
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by samar
from Bradenton, FL
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3 out of 5 |
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| Just bought it 2 hours ago and already hate it. others i have purchased were easy as one two three, plug and play and all i wanted was to use as storage. |
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1 out of 5 |
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Failed - same as others have
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January 21, 2013
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by Tech
from Okalhoma
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| after using to backup a large quantity of data, it was
not recognized by any operating systems that I tried,
and would not recover. Lasted three months, just long enough to cause me serious problems.... |
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1 out of 5 |
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toshiba canvio 3 / 2usb
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August 10, 2012
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by wishingstars
from warren mi
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1 out of 5 |
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| This is NOT mac-compatible! The packaging, etc says it is, but nope, not even having initially reformated the drive to os extended journalled. Mis use, or willy-nilly, it changes the format to DOS / Windows, and absolutely corrupts each and every document, dmg, etc. Think twice - don't buy the drive: pen & paper are much more reliable! Don't let the ads nor the price lure you iin please |
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1 out of 5 |
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No User Guide available
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August 30, 2012
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by justaguy
from Fort Collins, CO
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| I have spent hours, it seems, trying to find a user guide on the useless Toshiba support website for their Canvio 3.0 portable hard drive. If a guide exists, Toshiba is determined that I won't find it!! There are, however, warnings about harm to my computers if I try to use this to move large photo files and music files from one computer to another. |
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One week to a month
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1 out of 5 |
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July 26, 2012
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by marec
from Lima Peru
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| I have bought a Canvio 3.o. It don't have a guide of installer or how it's drive . I can't to use and the call center in Mexico , don't have solution for it . What I can about it? |
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Less than a week
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Worst HD ever
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May 19, 2012
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by Disar
from Denver, CO
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| I bought this HD to transfer all of my files of my previous HD. These storage HD drives are used very infrequently. Like maybe one every 3 months. I bought this HD in Dec 2012 and today (May19, 2012). It failed after the THIRD time using it. This product is garbage. I will never buy toshiba again. |
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One month to a year
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Save your money
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March 12, 2012
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by changes
from So Cal
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| Two bought. Two failed. |
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One month to a year
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Toshiba 500GB Canvio® Basics USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive
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2.4 out of 5 |
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2.7 out of 5 |
| 8 of 20 (40%) customers would recommend this product to a friend. |
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