Toshiba debuts with portable 200 GB drive
We all know that small things are nice things. And it doesn’t have to mean that small things have nothing to offer: Toshiba has entered the portable hard drive (HD) market with the launch of its 200GB 2.5-inch USB 2.0 portable external hard drive. Calling it the world’s first 200 GB portable HD, the new drive, according to Toshiba, can deliver the highest capacity for any backup solution in the compact 2.5-inch hard drive class. It can store up to 57,000 digital photos; 52,000 MP3 music files; 88 DVD videos or 23 high-definition videos. The portable HD comes bundled with NTI Shadow software, a click-free, switch-free, and button-free backup solution that enables users simply connect the drive, set backup parameters, and enjoy the peace of mind of knowing critical and cherished digital information is being protected.
The hard drives also incorporate a special patent-pending shock mount system to provide extra protection against normal wear and tear. The ventilated sleek Black Aluminium housing stylishly complements other digital devices, and helps dissipate heat more efficiently than similar products on the market. The hard drives are seco-conscious, RoHS compatible, and support both Windows and Mac OS. The accompanied 4-foot USB cable enables users easily plug in the hard drive to any laptop or desktop PC, while USB Hi-Speed Certification allows for use of the drive in any USB port configuration. Toshiba’s new USB 2.0 portable external hard drives are available on the company site in four capacities 200GB, 160GB, 120GB, and 100GB – the price is little higher though: from $229.99 to $129.99 respectively, but this will drop with time without any doubts.
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Huh? I own a Toshiba 3.5″ external HDD 320 GB for quite a while now… Isn’t 3.5″ portable?
my computer doesnt have so much capacity, although I have a good WD external 40GB drive, works fine
This is 2.5″. It doesn’t require power supply.
Anyway, cool stuff and nice software packaged with it
If it supports Windows and Mac, it’ll work perfect on Linux.
In new zealand harvey norman a home applicance store opened a branch in lower hutt wellington.One of the opening specials was a seagate 250 gb drive it was reduced $100 fron 250 to 150 dollars.I got a bargain.
i’ve had a 250gb ex hd from toshiba for 6 months and the adapter lead made a popping sound and i smelt smoke obviously it was fucked,and pc world could’nt get me another and i did’nt want one if it’s anything like the funny connection adapter that i had on mine you wont find another anywhere in the end i had rip the hd st8 from it’s fort knox casing and stick it in my comp as a slave to my other 250hd so fuck pc world and fuck toshiba when i get another ex hd it wont be from either of thier akward asses.
If it works on linux, like ubuntu then it will be okay to get. Sometimes on linux the most minute thing takes minutes of installing random crap to make it work.
Looks a lot smaller than my one. Not being big headed just an improvement for convenience. I just hope they can transfer files bigger than 5 gb onto them. I’ve got a 250GB freecom external hard drive and it keeps teling me there’s not enough space to move a 7GB file (cnc3twke) into the 35 gb of available space which just isn’t right. I’ve tried compressing it, putting it into an iso file but I keep getting the same message “Not enough space try deleting 1 or more files” or something like that. Thank god they’ve printed that it can handle hi def movies onto it so it shouldn’t have the same problem as mine. 4.2/5 for the smaller memory. I’ll give them 5 out of 5 when they build an affordable terabyte model.
Dave, make sure you’re not using FAT32 on that drive, format on convert it to a filesystem that supports files bigger than 4GB (NTFS, ext2,3 reiser anything but fat)
@Dave
Not totally sure but:
You’ve probably formatted the external hard drive as FAT32, which can’t handle big files. Try formatting it as NTFS.
Dave your drive doesn’t let u copy your 7gb file, because your drive file system is FAT32.
Jurgen: 3.5″ is a standard HD disk for PCs. 2.5″ is the ones laptops and portable HDs use.
erm…. i have a 400gb portable hard drive at work?????
So correct me if I’m wrong but this new HD exceeds the 120GB limit for portable 2.5″ drives (powered by USB, so without the extra powersource)?
an actual model number would be nice in this review.
All you have to do is use WinRAR to break up the big files and then put them back together somewhere like an NTFS drive when you need it.