If you’re looking to add some serious storage capacity to your PC without breaking the bank then you should check out this Toshiba Canvio Flex Portable drive. Not only is it very affordable but it’s also rated for a pretty high workload and offers a three year warranty.
It’s a fairly plain looking drive with a matte black top and a simple Canvio logo impressed on it. 4TB HDD for Seamless Storage is also quite plain and omits the rubber feet of the Canvio Ready model in favor of a flat bottom surface.
4TB HDD for Seamless Storage: Smooth & Reliable Use
While it may not be as sleek as a Velociraptor or even a WD Black hard drive this BarraCuda is still a very handsome unit and has plenty of internal features to help keep your files safe. It has a 256MB DRAM cache for improving performance and a built in vibration compensation system to reduce the impact of jostling or internal movement on your data.
As far as read access goes the WD RE has very respectable performance as it sustained 146MB/s in AS SSD Benchmark’s sequential write test. This puts it a little faster than the WD Red 3TB and about 25% slower than the Velociraptor 1TB. The RE is also configured for RAID use which means that it limits its time to recover from errors in order to prevent overwriting your most important files. This setting can be changed by the user if desired.