Toshiba 4TB Canvio Basics Portable External Hard Drive,USB 3.2. Gen 1, Black (HDTB440EK3AA)

A great product with a good memory.

UPDATE: Still using this drive and has been reliable and a great buy from Amazon. Recently after receiving a VIP code for a PlayStation 5 I sold my PlayStation 4 and now on the latest gen. I hooked everything up the same but this time you want to plug the Toshiba hard drive to the back of the PlayStation 5 as it has x2 USB 3.0 ports. I’ve copied some games to it and it’s still been fine and have been running PlayStation 4 games on it such as Wolfenstein Alt Collection, Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1 & 2, Serious Sam etc and has worked flawlessly. This drive will also store your PlayStation 5 games on it but won’t be able to run them as it’s not a SSD so not compatible for that but for storage and being able to run those PlayStation 4 Disc and Digital games it’s still a top gem. At the end of the day it’s an external hard drive and like any other 3.0 with a usb they will work for Playstation or Xbox. If they have their own format tool which they do you won’t have any problems. The first thing that comes up once you’ve connected it and powered on the console a message saying “Not Compatable”. Well it actually is it’s just that it’s not formatted and more like it’s been pre formatted to NTFS which is what windows use. Once you have formatted it, it takes literally seconds that’s it. Once you go to your system settings scroll down to Devices, USB Storage Devices, External USB 3.0 Toshiba. There it will ask you to format to an extended storage. Please note, once you have done this the preferred drive will be the external one, I’d suggest to use the internal hard drive for main storage as it will be more cooled from the fan inside the console. If you have say The Last Of Us which is about 50GB move that over to the external drive as there isn’t anymore updates for that game now. While on the subject keep games like Red Dead Redemption 2 on the main drive I only say as with new games your going to get a lot of updates like still Grand Theft Auto 5 and running the external drive constantly with the updates ploughing at it every day or so wouldn’t be good for it. I haven’t tried any of the games running off it yet but from what I read online they run faster apparently. I would recommend a 4TB hard drive as after the format with the systems own volume putting its own data on your left with about 3.5TB

This drive is now attached to an Apple AirPort Extreme Router and handles all my Mac backups automatically and reliably. This hard drive has a USB-A connector instead of the more modern USB-C which is useless if you try to plug it into a USB-A device! Something to look out for. It works with no problems, power comes from the router so just one cable. The router only supports two TB partitions, so you need to partition the drive into 2 x 2TB before you can use it for this purpose. The price is below 2 pence per Gigabyte, so no complaints at all.

A nice high capacity portable drive. It’s built fairly solid and I’ve had no issues with its performance or build quality so far. My only gripe is that the drive will put itself to sleep after a short while if not used. This is built into the drive and cannot be turned off. It only takes a few seconds for it to spin back up, but it’s frustrating when working from the drive if you have to wait a couple of seconds for video playback to start, etc, and only serves to add more time to the already tedious process of video editing when working from the drive. It also means the drive might go to sleep and interrupt a process if left unattended whilst doing a background process like generating proxies or rendering. MacOS already has the option to put drives to sleep when not in use, and I’m sure Windows will have a similar option too, so I’m not sure why Toshiba built this into the drive.

I have got a number of these hard drives. I have never had a problem with any of them. I have never lost data and the transfer rate is very good

The Best of the Best I was looking for really big space as my laptop has been having a lot of issues lately and i wanted to back-up everything in one place (especially my university work). I wanted something durable that could last me for years. I've found it! and i don't have to look any further! This is a really nice External Hard Drive, it's really sturdy and nice, and surprising how light this thing is considering how much space it holds (I bought the 4TB)! It's really easy to use, you just plug it in, and you can drag and drop or copy and paste your things over! I highly recommend purchasing this! Plus, 4TB is going to last me a very long time, i don't see myself using that much space anytime soon, so it's definitely getting its money worth out of it. It came packaged really well! I've added an image to this review to show that and it also comes with its own 3.0 USB cable. It is indeed quite short, but this isn't a problem for me as I need it at home more than out and about, it's perfect length for being stationary/having it next to your computer/whatever you're using it on. I haven't taken it out anywhere yet (portable wise), but it's quite small so no doubt it could fit in a small bag/deep pockets! The delivery was extremely speedy as well - it arrived 4-5 days earlier than it was meant to! It looks exactly like the pictures shown and has a lovely blue light when connected to your device, it flashes when things are being transferred, which i think is great. Overall, I am extremely happy with my purchase and I definitely recommend buying. Thank you Toshiba for such a wonderful product!

After scouring the internet for a good price on a 4tb Hard drive, I found this seller through Amazon which was the cheapest at the time. The hard drive itself is for pc games and does the job perfectly. I would definitely use this seller again due to cheap prices and good products.

I have bought four of these Toshiba drives of varying capacities, this latest one being 4TB. I have one that has failed, I used it as a TV backup and it functioned perfectly but I hardly use it so I disconnected it to use as as PC backup instead but Windows or iOS doesn't recognise it. My guess is that the TV formatted it as an Android device and Windows doesn't recognise the Android formatting, it doesn't appear in Explorer so I can't reformat it as FAT or NTFS so that's my fault not the disc. I am puzzled by some of the scathing poor reviews of this and other brands like Western Digital and Seagate which have always been good brand names? It leads me to suspect they may be 'fake' reviews for whatever purpose maybe to steer people to other products? All I can say is that the Toshiba ones are first class.