Toshiba unveils portable hard drives

Toshiba has announced the latest additions to its line of portable hard drive solutions for personal storage, the Canvio Premium and the Canvio Advance, offering flexible capacity with 1TB, 2TB and 3TB options and slimmer 2TB design than previous models.

The Canvio Premium series is accompanied by USB Type-A to USB Type-C adapter that can be inserted in any orientation for easy connectivity to everything from notebooks to high-end desktop PCs. The 2TB devices in the Premium line have a 13.5mm profile, 5.5mm slimmer than the previous model. The 1TB devices also have a 13.5mm profile and the 3TB devices have a 19mm profile.

The Canvio Advance series come in four colour options - black, white, blue or red. The 2TB devices in the Advance line have a 14mm profile, 5.5mm slimmer than the previous Canvio Connect model.

"We are always striving to create more compact, high-capacity devices to handle the growing amount of digital content that today's consumers need to store," said Santosh Varghese, general manger - MEA at Toshiba Gulf. "Achieving 1TB per platter capacity is a major milestone that allowed us to create our densest storage solution yet.

Source: Khaleej Times