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Toshiba re-issued an external hard disk that might captivate your heart. Toshiba calls this an external hard disk with the name Toshiba V5 Art. The name of an external hard disk itself is not listed on the sales box or on the body of an external hard drive.Design
Measuring 5.0 x 3.2 x 0.7 inches and weighing 6.0 ounces, the Toshiba drive slides easily into a pants or jacket pocket. With attractive simple blue-on-black striped color scheme, but the drive’s plastic body feels cheap.
Toshiba’s external hard disk drive design is the image of three fruit box. In addition, there is no sharp edge on this external hard disk.
On the bottom side, there are four pieces of rubber that protects the external hard disk is so not easy to shift when an external hard drive shocking. In fact, when applied pressure to the shell, it flexed; not a good sign for a drive that’s designed to protect your most valuable data. Rubber bumpers on the bottom of the drive safeguard against shock.
USB slot can be found at the upper edge of this drive. Interface used is still uses USB 2.0. If you can see, on the side of this external hard disk there is a bandage made from rubber. The good, usually rubber material is able to withstand impact, although not necessarily able to withstand impacts when hard disk is falling. Toshiba
themselves do not indicate that the hard disk has a feature impact resistant and waterproof.
Performance
Once you connected the Toshiba drive to a notebook via a USB cable, with transfer test to transfer a 4.97GB folder of mixed media. Writing the file took 5 minutes and 22 seconds, a rate of 15.8 Mbps, which was a bit below the 17.6 Mbps pocket-drive average.
Software and Warranty
Preinstalled on the drive is NTI’s Shadow software (compatible with both Mac and PC), which we used to set up a new backup job that would work its magic whenever we made a change on our system (there’s also
an option to autobackup on specific days at scheduled times). The Shadow software’s ability to save up to 9 previous versions of a file is a technological godsend for times when you need an earlier draft of a document.
However, unlike the Fabric SimpleTech Signature Mini, Toshiba’s drive doesn’t offer online backup storage as a bonus. This drive also doesn’t include any encryption software for securing sensitive data.
Toshiba insures the drive with a three-year limited warranty.
Sales Package
This is the package sales of Toshiba V5 Art 500 GB external hard drive Inside the sales package contained the following equipments:
Testing Platform:
* Processor: Intel Core i7 920
* Motherboard: Intel X58
* Media Storage: Kingston 64 GB SSD V100
* RAM: 9 GB
* Graphics card: AMD Radeon 5550
* Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 64Bit
The Tests:
HDTune
Its performance is hampered by the bandwidth provided by USB 2.0.
However, the performance of Toshiba v5 Art still at upper limit speed USB 2.0
Crystal Disk Mark
At Crystal Disk Mark, we can see the actual performance of the hard disk that is used by Toshiba this by looking at the performance of its random. Toshiba hard disk is capable of writing random data with 512KB
file size at a speed of 27 MB / s and read at a speed of 22 MB / s.
6 GB Transfer Test
Transferring a file of 6 GB? All will be completed in less than five minutes. The speed is good enough for an external hard disk that are still using USB 2.0.
Conclusion
You can consider this Toshiba’s hard drive if you get bored with standard hard drive colors available in the market. In addition to having a little decoration on its surface, the hard disk is also surrounded by a rubber type material that can withstand a minor bump (when it collided with the rubber material of course).
Performance has to offer including the performance standards that use traditional external hard disk USB 2.0 interface. However, for everyday use, the performance has been deemed sufficient. Copying a file of 6 GB in less than five minutes will not take your time instead.
The hard drive is suitable for use in various kinds of jobs that require mobility. Moreover, when you need a complete backup for your computer, Toshiba has EZ Backup NTI software bundle on the hard disk for free. Hence also, for office workers, the hard disk is suitable for you.
Pros:
* NTI Backup Software
* Performance good
Cons:
* Cable USB 2.0 Y cable that is still not required on a specific platform Toshiba
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