Toshiba Canvio Flex vs WD My Passport

This sturdy drive is a nice size, works both with my iPad and the Windows desktop (with a bit of file conversion here and there) to port from Apple to Windows file types when iCloud isn't the answer because no WiFi.

However, this physical size is normal for high-capacity portable drives; the 4TB Seagate Backup Plus Fast also shares similars dimensions.CNET USB 3.0 portable drive performance Seagate Expansion 125.2 127

The blue powered/activity light is freakishly bright! Like, REALLY bright, to the point where I need to cover it, or position it somewhere that the light is blocked. It is really, really distracting! Those are really just nitpicking, though. If you want a great portable drive that is fast, connects easy, csuper fast and great storage capacity, the I highly recommend this, whether you need it for extra storage or backup. The drive does come with both IuSB-A and USB-C cables, so you don’t have to go looking for cables

Okay, let's go. Today I've got here the Western Digital My Passport 2TB hard disk in black. A pretty basic unboxing. Just the bare minimums in the box...

This portable hard drive is so much smaller than my ancient one, and it's great! I love how it powers up just being connected to the computer; and doesn't need a separate electrical connection. I got the 1TB drive for my new M1 iMac. I was worried about connecting to a Mac, but I had no issues whatsoever. I've included a couple of pics to show what I had to do: choose the hard drive from the list so this one is now default, and then erase the Toshiba drive so it could be formatted to work with TimeMachine (there was nothing on it to begin with since it was brand new, so erasing was easy)

Our newer MacBook only comes with 2 USB-C ports, although we bought a "dongle" with extra ports should we ever have the need for USB-A, HDMI, etc. This new drive quickly backed up our existing MacBook content. I made small changes and backed up a couple more times for good measure (taking seconds on these subsequent backups, as opposed to minutes from the first/initial backup). We bought the 2TB size as that's all we needed and Amazon's delivery was "next day" even on a Sunday, so actual time from order to receipt was less than 24 hours:)

You don't have to use these, you can if you want to have it play around but I've got no use for them. So first of all I've got a disk info app here, s...

I have not had these issues with the two Toshiba drives. They have more than 100,000 files each and do not fail

We're not about losing any files But now let's download the WD backup, which is the only thing I'll be installing today because I really not intereste...

It arrived in one of the famous white bubble padded envelopes which bothered me for an electronic product that was going to save my data. At the time I was not aware that this external hard drive does not have the moving parts like my older WD Element and Seagate models. Otherwise I might have moved forward, kept the product and been OK. Not knowing that, I did not like the padded envelope vs

However, this encryption is always-on even if you aren't using it. So, while the disk appears plain-text to the OS the underlying sectors are all encrypted on the disk. As long as the drive is functioning normally this has no real practical implication since plain-text goes in and plain-text comes out. However, in the event you ever need to send this device for data recovery it will complicate the process, increase the cost and time necessary and honestly probably greatly increases the odds that nothing could be recovered