Toshiba Canvio Ready 2TB Portable Hard Drive - Black
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About this product
The Toshiba Canvio Basics gives you a generous 2TB of storage space - perfect for keeping all your photos, videos, music and important files safe in one place. Setting it up couldn't be easier - just plug in the USB cable and you're ready to go within seconds. No software to install, no complicated setup - Windows recognises it straight away, so you can start backing up your precious memories immediately. The timeless design with matt finish looks smart whether it's sitting on your desk or tucked in your bag for travel.
Powered by USB 3.2 Gen 1 technology, this portable hard drive delivers much faster transfer speeds than older USB 2.0 devices, making it quick to organise and move large files. It's still compatible with USB 2.0 hardware too, so you can connect it to older systems when needed. Compact and lightweight at around 11 x 8 x 1.4cm and under 200g, it's easy to slip into a laptop bag or backpack for when you're on the move. Toshiba backs it with a 1-year manufacturer's guarantee for added reassurance.
- Storage space 2TB.
- USB 2.0.
- USB 3.0.
- Weight 0.15kg.
- Size H1.4, W7.8, L10.9cm.
- Manufacturer's 1 year guarantee.
- EAN: 4260557511398.
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Customers Say
The Toshiba Canvio Ready 2TB Portable Hard Drive offers large capacity, fast transfer speeds, compact design, and ease of use. Reliable for backups and media storage, with good value for money but limited USB-C support.
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Great, solid, work horse.
Huge capacity, holds all games needed for my xbox 360. Very small, and the black finish makes it blend in perfectly on the shelf.
JimLad, 35 - 44
Toshiba Canvio Ready 2TB Portable Hard Drive
Impressive transfer speed from laptop to my new Toshiba portable drives. Excellent value for money, too.
PJPJ, 65 or over
Good Value Backup (for these days)
Hard pressed these days to find inexpensive backup drives. At £80 it's less expensive than most new internal drives and a fraction of the cost of equivalent 2TB NVMe drives. Compact enough to store away easily. Impossible to say how reliable it will be but if it used solely as a standalone backup and not permanently plugged in it should last years. Easily detected by Windows 11 and no faffing about with any disk utility. Good for backing up media files to free up other drives. .
DanielCfK, 55 - 64
Handy portable harddrive
Transfer speed is fast and its small and portable and I'm happy I brought it for the price that I did
Katie, 35 - 44
Good buy
A reliable product with a large capacity at a reasonable price. With constant windows updates, my granddaughter found herself runnin
Suewho, 65 or over
Quality Drive From A Mainstream Manufacturer
I bought this as a belt-and-braces backup to a smaller SSD attached to my iMac. It was specifically chosen for its smaller size as smaller rotating drives are quieter. I did experience a few couple of issues getting it to work with the Mac, but these were fairly quickly resolved by describing the issue to ChatGPT, and then working through it (nothing wrong with the drive, just my particular setup). Data transfer is perfectly adequate as a backup drive. It won't see demanding performance, being used just once a week, but being from a major manufacturer, I don't anticipate any problems. I'm a heavy user for photographs and somewhat heavy for video files, so the capacity had to be relatively high to store archived files. I only really need about 500Gb of storage, but the 2TB gives plenty of headroom.
billybongo, 55 - 64
Portable USB3 disk unit
The product was simple to understand and worked perfectly straight from the box. The capacity and transfer speed were as stated. It is a pity no small bag or similar wasn't provided as the drive is very portable and I have found a low cost case on similar products.
bob27, 65 or over
Good Price
Good price at Agros as always. It is my second toshiba portable hard drive.
Ics
Value for money
Great value from an established company easy to use right from the box
Malc999, 65 or over
Quick and Easy
Reserved online and picked up in store. Really easy to do. Hard drive working fine so far
LJ1911, 35 - 44
Hello there,
Toshiba Canvio Ready 2TB Portable Hard Drive - Black:
Yes, you can use it on your PC for games, but with some important limitations.
The Portable Hard Drive connects via USB 3.2 Gen 1 and comes formatted for Windows out of the box. It provides plenty of storage space for a large gaming library.
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Hello there,
The Toshiba Canvio Ready 2TB Portable Hard Drive - Black
No, it will not work directly, and you cannot transfer videos directly from a Panasonic DVD recorder to the Hard Drive.
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Hello Jimin,
Yes, Toshiba Canvio Ready 2TB Portable Hard Drive - Black comes with a cable.
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Hello there,
Toshiba Canvio Ready 2TB Portable Hard Drive - Black comes preformatted in NTFS, making it ready for use with Windows systems, and requires reformatting to exFAT or other file systems for macOS compatibility.
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Hi Ker01,
Toshiba Canvio Ready 2TB Portable Hard Drive - Black 324/1598
After checking with our supplier, they have advised for the Toshiba Canvio Ready 2TB Portable Hard Drive - Black: Only the model Toshiba "Canvio Flex" model works out of the box with MacOS PCs, other models need reformatting on operating systems other than Windows.
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Hello J66,
I can confirm the following for the Toshiba Canvio Ready 2TB Portable Hard Drive - Black:
Only the model Toshiba "Canvio Flex" model works out of the box with MacOS PCs, other models need reformatting on operating systems other than Windows.
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Hello there,
After checking with our supplier, they have advised for the Toshiba Canvio Ready 2TB Portable Hard Drive - Black: Only the model Toshiba "Canvio Flex" model works out of the box with MacOS PCs, other models need reformatting on operating systems other than Windows.
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Hello MCapozzola,
The supplier has advised the following for the Toshiba Canvio Ready 2TB Portable Hard Drive - Black:
"The Canvio Ready series does use an internal HDD. At the moment Toshiba does not offer any flash memory SSDs."
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Hello gary,
I can advise the following for the Toshiba Canvio Ready 2TB Portable Hard Drive - Black:
This is possible with the correct adapter.
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