The Toshiba hard drives – Canvio Plus 750 GB Series: A cost effective solution

If you are looking for a medium sized external storage device with an decent cost to quality ratio, than you need to look no further than the Toshiba Hard Drives Canvio Plus 750 Gigabytes series, which can be acquired for around 79 dollars. While Toshiba is not actually the leading brand when it comes to creating storage devices and this drive does not employ a groundbreaking technology in itself, you can expect the same high quality standards this manufacturer has provided its customers for many years. The quality physical and software features ensure that the transfer is done quickly, smoothly and without any risk to the data you have stored. But let us look at what customers are getting with the purchase of the Toshiba Hard Drives Canvio Plus 750 GB.

First of all, you have the 750 gigabytes of memory space, which should be enough in terms for storage requirements for most people. To put it simple, you can store approximately 210.000 high quality digital photos, 197.000 music files or 610 HD movies. In addition, it is worth mentioning that each and every one of these files is safely backed up on a constant basis and can be restored at the push of a button. Therefore, you do not only have a large storing space, you have a safe large storing space. Moreover, the backup process is easy to personalize according to the needs of each customer.

In terms of physical characteristics, although the Toshiba Hard Drives Canvio Plus 750 GB are small (3.1 inches in width, 4.7 inches in length and 0.6 inches in depth, while weighting approximately 0.6 pounds) it is extremely resistant. The shock proof technology employed by Toshiba for these drives has proven to be highly effective. Moreover, the Canvio series come with an imbedded shock sensor and it has a slip-proof design in order to ensure the safety of your stored data even more.

The transfer to and from the original Canvio Series is done via an USB 2.0, but the newer models also come equipped with the USB 3.0 for a significantly improved data transfer speed. Benchmarking the device has revealed that its data read speed is 21.1 megabytes per second while its data write speed is 10 megabytes per second. This performance can also be accounted for by the dual memory channel it uses.

It is worth noting that the Toshiba Hard Drives Canvio Plus 750 GB is originally designed for Windows users, hence it comes pre-formatted using the NTFS file system. However, this does not go to say that Mac users should not purchase it, even though they will not gain the full benefits of the windows-based file backup system. In fact, it is quite easy to format using the FAT32 or Mac OS Extended. However, the bigger the Canvio hard drive, the slower it will perform for Mac users. The largest version of the Canvio is 1 terabyte, but the only storage capacity version that does not create absolutely any performance issue seems to be the 320 gigabyte version so I reckon it will be safe to go with this choice.


In the realm of internal hard drives, it is a known fact that Toshiba hard drives are a force to be reckoned with. Have you got yours today?