Hitachi Touro Desk Pro 4TB USB 3.0 External HDD Review

Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2012-12-10

The refreshed Touro Desk Pro from Hitachi comes with a new high capacity 4TB drive, which succeeds to deliver better transfer speeds than the previous, 3TB model. The temperatures of the drives are close to the ones we have seen with the Touro Desk Pro 3TB and the enclosure has the same design lines.

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Test Setup and Extra Info

The test bench was composed from the following hardware:

 

CPU: Intel I7 3770K @ stock

Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Fatal1ty Professional

RAM: 4x8GB GeIL Leggera 2133MHz

Video: AMD Radeon HD 7970

Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11

SSD: Patriot Pyro 120GB

Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64


 

The drives comes formatted, with only one NTFS partition:

 

With AIDA64 Ultimate software tool, we can extract more information regarding the internal drive:

 

 

Preloaded on the HDD we can also find the Hitachi Backup application, for both Mac and Windows:

 

 

 

The program can be installed by following the written instructions:

 

 

 

The drive will request to update itself, right after the installation:

 

 

The Hitachi Backup application has two separate functions: “local” and “online” and both of them can be configured from the same user interface:

 

 

 

In the advanced settings of the “local” backup we can specify which folders from our internal HDD should be saved, set the schedules and also specify how many versions of the files should be kept:

 

 

 

The “online” backup settings also let us specify the folders we need to be saved, the schedule, number of file revisions, file size limits and bandwidth priority. Hitachi offers only 3GB and for larger capacities we must pay an additional fee. We feel that it would be great to see the free capacity increased to 5GB, considering that there are already some services like IDRIVE, Google Drive, SkyDrive offering 5GB or more:

 

 

 

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