Toshiba Canvio Basics 4TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0, Black - HDTB440XK3CA

The Toshiba Canvio Basics 2TB HDD is a fantastic external drive! It’s compact, lightweight, and plugs in effortlessly via USB 3.0 for fast transfers. Perfect for backing up photos, videos, and work files.

I purchased this to save my recorded programs/movies from my Dishnet Hopper 3. Worked great. I wasn't clear if it came with a usb or not, so I purchased one... DON'T.... It comes with one that works perfectly. I keep it hooked up to the hopper, so the nice short cord is useful... (about 1 ft). If you need a longer one, then perhaps you'll want to purchase one - but not necessary otherwise. It was super easy - plugged it in, a box came up on my TV that asked if I wanted to update and format - I clicked yes and that was it. It was ready for transfer of saved material. The drive itself is approx 5:x4"x 3/4". It is black and has a little flashing light when it's being used. I had things sorted on my Hopper in "files". So far, I cannot figure out how to make folders on the hard drive, so everything is just mixed on the hard drive - that means looking thru about 200 titles - Eh - but the point of the hard drive for us is to save the content if we have to replace the Hopper at some point. It is easy to move the files back and forth.. And you can play the movies from the hard drive. It did take quite a while to transfer, we had about 50% of our Hopper memory - a number of hours. But no biggee to me. So far, I am happy with my purchase, however, time will tell. Having said that, I never hesitate to update my reviews should new info seem useful.

Good item. It was easy to use and hook up to my system. The operation was seamless. I would buy this item again. Would recommend it to others.

I do a lot of gaming and one of the big problems I have with my xbox series s is storage. The game console comes with 300 gb of storage for gaming which is terribly very small. An easy work around to this is to redownload games and back up data to the cloud but the problem with that is it requires internet to be able to do that and to back up games to the cloud takes forever compared to backing them up on a drive. Backing them up on a drive has 1 gb/s where transfer speeds of my wifi router to the xbox are about 0.2 gb/s making storing them on a drive 5 times faster in terms of transfer speeds and such.This is not my first toshiba drive. I bought a 1 tb drive last year but I chose to get rid of it because 1 tb is just not enough storage for game transfer. I have already used up 2.7 tb of the 4 tb drive I bought from this seller.Pros:1. Dirt cheap drive.2. Stores what you want.3. Transfer speeds greatly out perform my wifi router making it more ideal for gaming in my opinion because the xbox series s is hugely impacted by the number of different games you can play.Cons:1. Unlike the 1 tb version I can feel the 4 tb version vibrating while in use suggesting that there is a spinning disk inside. As other people reviewing this have pointed out it is more prone to failing than a ssd drive. Just something to keep in mind. I haven't had this drive fail on me yet.Conclusion:I have repeatedly transferred back and forth repeatedly numerous terrabytes worth of data and it has not failed on me yet. Just remember to keep backups of backups always. Good day!

Great still have tons of space

So far I have been pleased with all 3 of these I have bought. I was at first scared by the negative reviews, but after carefully making sure I reformat them BEFORE using, I have had NO issues. I use these smaller 2TB models, because they are more stable for long term storage than the larger models. And it takes much longer to do maintenance on them with tools like Spinrite, or Gparted when they are in a larger size. I am a former Sysadmin, and I use these for a lot of data. I have 2 older ones that are from 2012 now, and all 5 of these are doing well so far. I use them primarily for video and audio storage/playback. I would recommend that you throw away the OEM cable, and immediately purchase a dual USB harness cable. One of the main issues with these not working right (other than making sure you reformat out of the box), is these USB 3 drives need a lot of power. If you hear them whir up and go click repeatedly, you aren't feeding them enough power. These Y cables have 2 male USB plugs, one has a smaller diameter cable. This is for the extra power, the fatter one is the data cable, don't get these mixed up. Make sure the data one is plugged into your MAIN USB chain directly from the motherboard (usually in the back of PC's), not the front, as these do not have the throughput needed to handle them. Make sure your device handles USB 3, add a card if possible if they don't. If on a laptop, make sure to use the set that has 1 side by side USB sockets, not the single, that is meant for a mouse. You can use an external batter power supply, but it will kill it rather fast. You can use a clean transformer power source (5VDC 1.5-2 Ah), just remember to plug in the drive, BEFORE connecting it to your computer or device. I have not tested these with NAS or DMP's yet, but make sure you follow the manufacturers suggestions on when to connect or how to boot. Some of the earlier Cisco DMP's will wipe the drive if you do not do it exactly as suggested. Some devices, like PS3/4, etc require it to be formatted in FAT32, and to have a specifically name folder layout for your movies and photographs, make sure you follow this. Otherwise most problems I read on here are probably user error. Not all, but most. Nothing is perfect. But so far I have had no problem with this brand and type of drive.