Toshiba Canvio Advance 4TB External Drive Review

1. Introduction2. Toshiba Canvio Advance 4TB3. ATTO/CrystalDiskMark/AS SSD4. Backup / Restore5. Throughput6. Real Life File Transfers7. Closing Thoughts8. View All Pages

To test real life performance of a drive we use a mix of folder/file types and by using the FastCopy utility (which gives a time as well as MB/s result) we record the performance of drive reading from & writing to a 256GB Samsung SSD850 PRO.

100GB data file.
60GB iso image.
60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files.
50GB File folder – 28,523 files.
12GB Movie folder – 24 files (mix of Blu-ray and 4K files).
10GB Photo folder – 621 files (mix of .png, raw and .jpeg images).
10GB Audio folder – 1,483 files (mix of mp3 and .flac files).
5GB (1.5bn pixel) photo.
BluRay movie.

On the whole the drive performed well when it came to dealing with our real life file transfers although it struggled writing the small bity files of the 50GB file, 60GB Steam and 10GB audio folders. Read performance on the other hand was good, producing 100MB/s transfer rates for most of the other tests.

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