💾 Toshiba Canvio Advance 1TB Black USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive - HDTC910XK3AA Review

The hard drive itself works as advertised BUT the cable broke after 9 months and got me thinking that the whole hard drive is bad. I plugged in the drive and the light came on and I could feel it spinning, but it never installed on my computers (OS X, Linux, and Windows). I thought it was a defective drive and was very dismayed at the warranty issues other people were having. Luckily I had a different cable and decided to try it and it worked! If you have problems with the drive, try a…

The hard drive itself works as advertised BUT the cable broke after 9 months and I thought the whole drive was bad. I would plug in the drive and the light would come on and I could feel it spinning, but it never got installed on my computers (OS X, Linux, and Windows). I thought it was a defective drive and was very dismayed at the warranty issues other people were having. Luckily I had a different cable and decided to try it and it worked! If you have problems with the drive, try a different…

Sorry for the negative review - I prefer to give good reviews which I almost always do but this junk stopped working after 4 months. I've tried many fixes posted by extraordinary companies like Easeus; vain. This Toshiba Canvio Advance 2TB is useless and a waste of my money. Calling it "Revane's Choice" is a silly joke. Almost 5 stars? It deserves less than one star; it deserves a minus star. By the way, I use many external hard drives for storage. I use another, older Toshiba and it's ok. I…

I only bought this to backup years of photos and videos to store somewhere else in case my computer died and for those huge video files, that are too big download. I am very happy with the terabyte version which I bought for $53. Keep in mind that it is unpowered and runs solely from the USB port. On my computer with USB 3, the transfer speed is about 25 megabytes per second. It comes with that fancy USB connection used on the Samsung Galaxy S5, but I found that it can also use a standard…

There is a lot of nonsense in the reviews, so I will give the facts. Feel free to do a little research to verify what I'm saying. This is already a wall of text, so I won't go into detail. (At the end there is an update on my only problem with this particular model and a simple method to recover data while the internal drive is still good.) 1) EVERY hard drive manufacturer fails. every last one Some are DOA, others take a month or more. It depends on your usage. Moving parts break. The…