Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive 250 GB

I purchased the Toshiba Portable Hard drive about six months ago The box was attractive and the price very competitive with other drives with similar specifications. After opening the box I was surprised to find no software that needed to be preinstalled the drive was plug and play which means all you need to do is connect the drive to the usb port and hey presto the drive is accessible I had no difficulty connecting the drive to my laptop I would like to mention the usb cable that is supplied with the device is rather short. The drive its self is of sturdy construction and would take some knocks before damage is done. This is important as many ...  Read the complete review

I bought this toshiba portable hard drive from cdiscount on offer and it was a very good price for a 250gb usb drive. The drive is probably as slim and light as you can get and although there is no obvious way of opening it I would say it probably has a standard 9.5mm 2.5" laptop hard drive in it which could be useable in a laptop? The hard drive seems very quick at reading and writing files - it to me a couple of seconds to simply transfer an mp3 file. There is also no useless software on it to slow it down. I currently have it formatted to fat32 so I can use it with a pvr machine to record tv. The usb cable provided is very short but I ...  Read the complete review