We’d love to have seen Toshiba use a USB Type-C connector here, but every cent counts at the lower-end of the market, plus the newer interface acts as a selling point to entice users to the firm’s premium products. The Canvio Basics lacks the Toshiba Storage Security and Toshiba Storage Backup software, but you can get either for free elsewhere (visit our best free antivirus software and best free backup software roundups to find out more). To make matters even worse, you can get a 5TB external hard disk drive (the Seagate Backup Plus) for a few cents cheaper at $109.91 (around £85), with a choice of four colors, Seagate’s backup software, and a two-month free subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud. The latter comes with built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption plus WD Security software and WD Backup software for free. On the other hand, both are significantly more expensive than the Seagate Expansion 4TB model – at $90 (around £70) – or the WD My Passport which costs $95 (around £74). The Canvio Basics 4TB sells for $110 (around £85) at Amazon, only $5 less than the Canvio Advance. A 10GB file took a whole 80 seconds to be transferred, which is better than we’d expect. It scored between 145 and 158MBps on CrystalDiskMark 6.0 and Atto (read and write speeds) with slightly lower numbers recorded on AS SSD.
Even so, the performance of the drive was quite decent for a spinning hard disk.
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