![]() ![]() Toshiba and others who manufacture bus-powered drives offer power booster cables or external power sources to compensate for this shortcoming. ![]() Older Mac laptop models have difficulty producing power sufficient to spin up the drive inside the Toshiba. We tested the Toshiba drive on an old 1.67GHz PowerBook and couldn’t get it to work. We threw the drive off our desk a few times and the Toshiba drive kept on humming along.īus-powered USB 2.0 drives won’t work with all computers. The Toshiba drive has anti-slip footpads on the bottom of the drive ensure it won’t slip and it also has a shock sensor and ramp loading that Toshiba says will help protect the drive’s internal head from crashing. In comparison, the Toshiba drive costs $.45 cents per gigabyte. ![]() The $549 G-Drive has a 500GB capacity, giving it a price per gigabyte of $1.10. The G-Drive Mini has a much higher cost per gigabyte than the Toshiba drive. However, the G-Drive Mini has faster connection options (FireWire 800, and FireWire 400) the G-Drive times when tested with a FireWire 800 connection, for example, finished the copy test in just 33 seconds and the duplication test in 46 seconds. G-Drive mini ( ) when tested over USB 2.0. The duplication test finished at 1 minute 26 seconds, and this score puts the Toshiba in the range of our current Top Product, G-Technology’s The Toshiba drive finished our 1GB copy test in 54 seconds, which is about average compared to competing portable external USB drives. In our benchmark tests, the Toshiba drive performed satisfactorily compared to competing drives when using the USB interface. ![]()
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