Toshiba Canvio Basics 1TB

2. Tests - Conclusion

Review Pages

1. Introduction - Retail package
2. Tests - Conclusion

The drive is brand new and has the latest firmware installed. Let’s start our tests. The CrystalDiskMark software offers a good indication of the drive's possible performance. Toshiba doesn't state any kind of performance figures, so we hoped for at least 120MB/sec reading/writing sequential speed, and the results are even better with around 155-160MB/sec reading/writing speeds. With normal HDDs, you cannot expect high reading/writing speeds with small-sized files.

The ATTO Disk benchmark gives us more details with different file sizes and above 16kb sized files you will get good performance:

Using real life copying, we found that copying a rather big 44GB file from NVME SSD to the external USB HDD resulted up to 145MB/sec, which is a good score.

- Conclusion

The Toshiba Canvio Basics series is mainly offered for entry-level users, who wish affordable storage and corresponding price levels. The retail box of the Toshiba Canvio Basics is nicely designed, nothing fancy, it includes a printed manual and a USB cable for connecting to full-sized USB ports. The issue here is that many laptops nowadays don't include normal USB ports but TypeC ports, so making a universal microB to TypeC/A cable would sound like a better idea.

Toshiba doesn't offer any kind of information about the expected performance levels you can get with the Canvio Basic lineup, and from our tests, you can expect at least ~150MB/sec reading/writing speeds with bigger than 64k sized files. With smaller file sizes, performance will drop as expected. You can consider this product as an external solution to back up your files, provided that you don't have very small files that will slow down eventually the overall performance.

The temperature levels were kept normal with our tests not showing above 35 Celsius, even in the summertime. Toshiba backs up the entire Canvio Basics series with 2years of warranty and is on par with other manufacturers. If we had to nag about something is that we feel it is time for storage manufacturers to move away from the microB USB port and move all their cables to Type C. Mac users will have to also format the drive to be able to use it and probably buy a microB to TypeC cable as well. Lastly, the retail price is also competitive at 52 Euro (including VAT).