Toshiba Canvio Flex 2TB Portable External Hard Drive USB-C USB 3.0, Silver for PC, Mac, & Tablet - HDTX120XSCAA

Love the flexibility this product offers, Im able to plug it into Phone, iPad, or PC and preserve the quality of the photos. Im at a point of confusion and a bit of frustration but Id still recommend this to others as its portable, convenient and serves its main purpose. Please approach the rest of commentary with the understanding that Im very new to photo storage and upgraded from Google photos to this toshiba hard drive to preserve my raw photos. I have minimal understanding of hard drive technology and specs. My challenge is.....data transfer takes a lot longer than I anticipated/hoped. Its excruciatingly slow trying to open, view, and organize photos on my iPad. So much so that on an 11 hour flight, I wasnt able to accomplish anything. Its faster with my laptop, which makes sense to this non tech expert. That being said, its still really pretty slow and laggy when reading it. Transfer of photos from SD card to hard drive took a pretty long time, I did it in 2 phases, maybe 30 gb each time. Would love to figure out the math on what I should expect that transfer to take, maybe my expectations were too high. I dont know anything about specs, I wish I had before I bought and wish I did now. I assumed that if it can STORE 2TB of data, that it should have no problem reading 74 gb worth of items at a fair speed so I can organize them into folders. As I simply view them on my laptop, It also doesnt seem to keep them loaded as I scroll down, and it is an arduous process to group them. Maybe Im meant to transfer the photos to the computer first and look at them there, and then transfer them back? Is that how to make this work better? Ill be doing some research in my spare time. Biggest complaint - if it is such a difficult task to open up and load all the photos at once in the main folder where they default, can there be an easier way to group them into separate folders to reduce this pain point? Maybe an auto folder based on date, or all photos from 5000-6000 in one. Maybe Ill look into a software that organizes them as this is painful. I dont know if it is possible to organize the photos ahead of time from the SD card before transferring when on the go - or if I should just rethink my process all together. Other context - Ive confirmed my laptop processing capabilities are not the issue, it is the specs of the hard drive (confirmed by tech support from laptop team). HP Elitebook, new in last 5 years.

Muy bueno estoy feliz me ha sido de gran utilidad. Lo recomiendo totalmente. Gracias

Its so much faster than my WD drive which fails every 3 years or less. AND this Toshiba drive runs COOL. I dont mean its cool - which it is - I mean not hot. I LOVE IT... Its writing speeds are awesome: WD 700 mb/sec TOSHIBA just went over 1.6GB/s

After ordering & returning Seagate drive, got this Toshiba drive. Worked like a dream with both PC & Mac, copying files easily like its supposed to right out of the box.

Works great and is easy to use. Can plug into all devices.. TV, computer.... Lightweight

I use this for back up of my laptop. It’s double the 1 MG hard drive that I had before and very much smaller with double the capacity at a very reasonable price. So far, I’m very happy with it.

Muy bien producto a un precio razonable. Muy fácil y sencillo de utilizar. Solo lo conectas al equipo y ya!!. Tiene excelente almacenamiento y es muy fácil de Transportar. Justamente lo que necesitaba y esperaba recibir. Gracias!

I purchased this external hard drive to back up my Macbook Air 2000. Rather than purchase a lower-priced item that would require reformating for a Mac, I upgraded to the Canvio Flex. It worked perfectly. I didnt have to reformat and the cable fit my Mac perfectly. I logged into Macs Time Machine and it was seamless. Great product.

It’s a little bit slow but not egregious or anything. Works well for what I need and very easy to use. Also liked that it included usb and usb c cables.

The Hard Drive was easy to install and worked well from Day 1.