Toshiba Canvio Gaming 4TB Portable HDD Review

Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2021-10-01

The Canvio Gaming 4TB offers good performance for an external 2.5’’ 5400RPM drive and is silent during operation as well. The amount of storage should be plenty for a big game collection and while not getting the same access times as on an SSD model, the product can sustain high speed transfer rates for longer versus cheap-QLC based solutions.

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Packaging, A Closer Look

As you may know, games are continuing to grow on any platform as they become more realistic and compact systems/laptops do not always come with enough storage to accommodate lots of titles offline. Some devices cannot be upgraded in terms of storage and the only option is to attach additional external storage; you can go the external SSD route which is the more expensive option or opt-in for a cost-effective HDD-based solution. You must also take into account that there are on the market quite a bit of QLC-based SSD solutions, but these tend to become slow as a crawl if the pseudo-SLC cache has been filled up and the drive will need some time to recover.

 

One of the HDD-based solutions which does not break the bank to acquire is the Toshiba Canvio Gaming, with capacities ranging from 1TB and up to 4TB. These are plug-and-play, do not need extra drivers to function and come partitioned as exFAT, for compatibility on a large range of devices.

 

The drive is shipped inside a small cardboard enclosure, which comes with a photo of the product, the total capacity but also some features listed as icons in the lower area:

 

 

 

Some more info is provided on the sides as well:

 

 

 

 

Toshiba claims that we can store 25+ games per TB, but this is just an estimation:

 

 

 

After removing the top packaging layer, we will end up with a plain cardboard enclosure and some documentation:

 

 

 

The said documentation offers information regarding Safety Instructions, Regulatory Information but also how to contact the support areas:

 

 

 

Both Canvio Gaming and the USB 3.2 Gen1 cable are carefully packed inside:

 

 

 

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