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TOSHIBA disagrees with itself about the generation

Two TOSHIBA drives

A four-terabyte portable hard drive and a ten-terabyte 3.5-inch drive.

Capacity, and a rate in gigabits

The portable drive publishes a link ceiling of up to 5 Gbps and names the shock sensors inside it. The desktop drive puts ten terabytes in a single bay at 7200 rpm with a 256 MB cache, which is a great deal of capacity per socket in an ordinary machine.

The two lines that do not hold

The portable listing gives its USB generation as 3.2 in the title and 3.0 in the bullets, and both cannot be true. The desktop drive names SATA with no generation and no rate, and its single bullet reprints the title while leaving the cache figure out of it. Neither page states a warranty, a connector or a duty figure.

Every TOSHIBA unit reviewed here

External hard drives

TOSHIBA Canvio Partner 4 TB, whose generation is printed two ways

4 TB · 2.5-inch portable · USB 3.2 in the title and USB 3.0 in the bullets · up to 5 Gbps · shock sensors named · no cable, no connector, no warranty

A four-terabyte portable drive that publishes a link rate of five gigabits per second and gives its USB generation as 3.2 in the title and 3.0 in the bullets.

Best for: A laptop that travels and needs four terabytes beside it, where a stated transfer ceiling matters and the socket question can be settled with the seller.

≈ $233 / £137 / 161 €

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Internal hard drives

TOSHIBA MG06ACA10TEY 10 TB, the largest drive of the batch, on a bare SATA line

10 TB · 3.5-inch · 7200 rpm · 256 MB cache in the title only · SATA with no rate · one bullet that drops the cache figure

A ten-terabyte enterprise-capacity drive whose single bullet reprints the title and leaves out the cache, and whose interface is named as SATA without a generation or a rate.

Best for: A machine that needs the most capacity per bay available here, where the buyer will confirm the interface generation and the duty figures from the datasheet.

≈ 300 €

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