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If you want cheap and lightweight portable storage, try the Toshiba HDDR500E03X 500GB USB hard drive Inside and out, this Toshiba HDDR500E03X 500GB compact external USB hard drive is billed as 100% Toshiba. And since the Japanese company is renowned...

The Toshiba is a very lightweight, functional and neatly styled external drive, but the construction is fragile to the point of being easily breakable after a few knocks. In fact on our sample, a plastic clip had snapped off inside leaving an annoying...
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expertreviews.co.uk Updated: 2011-10-04 11:20:38
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Toshiba is a long-established manufacturer of internal laptop hard disks, so its no surprise that it also makes a range of portable USB hard disks. Apart from some rubber feet on the bottom that prevent the disk from sliding around on your desk, th...
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Having lost the HD format war to Blu-ray, Toshiba believes that the future of hi-def movies will be downloads and not discs. Though weve still got some way to go before this becomes reality, theres no doubting the increasing popularity of the use of...

Robust, Small, Decent price...
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itreviews.com Updated: 2011-10-04 11:20:51
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The Toshiba 500GB drive distinguishes itself from the competition through its visual design, but aside from this theres nothing particularly special about it and, being priced at just above average for this sort of product, theres no real reason to...
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Fashion has reached even the most mundane of computer peripherals with Toshiba, amongst others launching a fashionable range of external hard disks to either transport or simply back-up your data. Interesting for a fashionable product - there doesnt s...
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Zdnet.com.au Updated: 2011-11-06 04:05:44
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Toshibas USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (HDDR320E03X) 320GB offers plenty of room for photos, music, and videos, and its convenient size lets you stow it in a jacket pocket. However, unless you really like its design, we cant recommend this dri...

Large capacity for a travel drive, Very compact and light, USB 2.0 powered, Ships with backup software, Cool and quiet...

No FireWire, Very slow write speeds...

The Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive is an attractive, weightless drive with a decent price point for a drive of this capacity. Its size makes it great for travel, but the write speeds arent up to par with other drives weve seen. We cant recomme...
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If you want cheap and lightweight portable storage, try the Toshiba HDDR500E03X 500GB USB hard driveInside and out, this Toshiba HDDR500E03X 500GB compact external USB hard drive is billed as 100% Toshiba. And since the Japanese company is renowned fo...

The Toshiba is a very lightweight, functional and neatly styled external drive, but the construction is fragile to the point of being easily breakable after a few knocks. In fact on our sample, a plastic clip had snapped off inside leaving an annoying...
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This is how one could describe the new external 2.5" hard disk from Toshiba. 465GB of usable space and a USB 2.0 port are supposed to convince for less than 120 Euros. You can read how the HDD comes off in the following review. Toshiba Portable Exte...

For currently 90-125 Euros (source Geizhals.at), the buyer gets a nifty external hard disk with sufficient storage space. The compability to Windows XP, Vista, 7, MacOS X, and Linux is assured thanks to the FAT32 format. The performance is, as expected, l...
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Drive has sleek design and fits easily in a pocket; performance a bit below average By Lucas Mearian (0) Recommended(27) Digg Via @Computerworld - Review: Toshibas 500GB USB external hard drive is compact but not a speed demonTwitter Top Stories Relat...
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If data backup is the only feature that you require of an external storage device, the plainly named Toshiba 500GB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive just may fill the bill. This $149 device does not possess lightning-fast data transfer rates or the sec...

Fast read speed, Good backup software for Windows and Mac...

Flexes under pressure, Slow write speeds...

The $149 Toshiba 500GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive boasts a best-in-class read speed and easy backup software, but it suffers from below-average write speeds and a design that doesn’t feel durable. If a feature-packed drive is more to your...
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THOUGH smaller than a paperback novel, Toshibas 250GB external hard drive is not the smallest or slimmest of external drives around.However, in function, it is pleasing.A single white LED is used to indicate power and activity. The latter changes the...

I really like the design and the bundled software. It would be a sure winner with a built-in cable...
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maclife.com Updated: 2011-10-04 11:20:54
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Toshiba is a well-known brand in the laptop hard-drive business, having been used in Macs for many years as stock drives shipped by Apple.The Toshiba 400GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive we tested is the most capacious external USB drive in Toshi...

Toshiba is a trusted name in hard drives.

Poor performance.
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by Chris Holt, Macworld.com USB is usually a safe bet, and equipping an external hard drive exclusively with USB 2.0 means that almost any modern computer can use it. But USB 2.0’s pokey performance lags behind the eSATA and FireWire. That said, USB ha...

Compact; bus powered.

USB only; power booster cable works only with a pair of USB ports.

Toshiba’s USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive is a serviceable drive with a few tradeoffs. While all portable drives have a higher price per gigabyte than desktop drives, performance-minded users will see the Toshiba’s USB-only connectivity a...
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maximumpc.com Updated: 2011-10-04 11:21:13
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Toshiba’s 320GB portable drive is so plain it doesn’t even have a real name. It’s just the Toshiba 320GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive, which doesn’t quite roll off the tongue as well as Western Digital’s My Passport Elite, the Toshiba 320’s pri...

Fast write speeds; easytouse backup software.

Slow read speeds; lacks an encryption program.
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The Toshiba HDDR320E03X ($199.99 list) is one of the new crop of 320GB 2.5-inch (notebook class) external hard drives. Its strengths include Mac- and Windows-compatible backup software, a compact exterior, and a large storage capacity. It has enough...

Compact. Capacious. NTI Shadow software on drive (no CD needed). Windows and Mac compatible software.

Short USB cable. No USB port protection. Backup software is more file-based than full-recovery-based.

Toshibas new USB drive is capacious and sleek, but aside from that it has little to differentiate it from the others in the 320GB club...
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