The Toshiba Canvio Premium is a modern external hard drive, with a sleek aluminium enclosure, USB 3.1 / USB Type-C support and a full complement of bundled software. Read on for our full review. Pros. Well-built enclosure. USB-A and USB-C connectors. Useful software bundled Cons. Flash drives are faster.
Price is £20 above other 1TB drives Summary and Score The Canvio Premium lives up to its name, with a well-built enclosure, multiple connectivity options and some useful added software at a premium price. There are cheaper 1TB external hard drives on the market, but if want something more then the Canvio Premium certainly delivers.
Specifications & Design. Capacity: 1TB, 2TB, 3TB. Colours: Silver metallic, dark grey. Connectors: USB 3.0 Type A, USB 3.1 Type-C (via bundled adapter). Dimensions: 109 x 78 x 13.5mm. Weight: 165 grams.
Warranty: 3 years The Canvio Premium sets itself apart from the crowd with its shiny aluminium design, which looks good and also should provide a good measure of protection against knocks and bumps. There’s a wee light in the corner, and a bevelled edge top and bottom. Bundle The bundle provided includes the drive itself and the cables needed to connect it: a USB 3.0 Micro-B cable and a Type-C adapter which will work well on Chromebooks and the new MacBook. There’s also a soft pouch to keep the drive safe from damage while travelling, and a spread of literature including a quick start guide (physical) and a user manual (stored on the drive itself). Software NTI Backup Now EZ (PC, Mac): Automatic backups to the Canvio Premium or cloud providers. Sensibly arranged, easy to use. Toshiba Password Lock (PC, Mac): Locks the drive, disallowing access until a password is entered.
A hint can be set, and the drive erased if the password is forgotten. Dead simple but seems to work well. Note: the HDD password tool seems to have disappeared from all but Toshiba’s German site. For that reason, you can download the tool from XSReviews here if you need to unlock the drive and don’t have it on hand. Form filler software. Pogoplug (PC, Mac): Cloud storage, 10GB included with drive purchase. I prefer the features and ubiquity of Dropbox, but always nice to have free cloud storage.
Tuxera NTFS (Mac): mounts the default NTFS partition; you can also choose to reformat the drive as HFS+ to use it for Time Machine. Benchmarks The Samsung T3 will be going against some tough competition, including the value-focused Sandisk Z410 and enthusiast grade drives from Samsung and Corsair.
That includes the Samsung 850 Evo, which we’ve now tested in both M.2 and 2.5-inch forms, and is coincidentally also the drive at the heart of the T3. We’ll be testing the Samsung T3 in our new test rig, which has a Core i5 6600K processor, 16GB of Crucial DDR4 RAM and runs Windows 10. We’re plugging into the USB 3.1 Type-A SuperSpeed port in the back. Thanks to NZXT for providing the and Kraken X61 liquid cooler. Thanks to Samsung for providing the boot drive. Thanks to Zoostorm and Crucial for providing the DDR4 RAM. CrystalDiskMark CrystalDiskMark has been one of my favourite benchmarks for evaluating storage speeds for a while now, thanks to its varied incompressible workload and extremely readable results.
Here’s the 3.0.3 x64 version of the benchmark; all results are in MB/s.
Toshiba Canvio Setup Software
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