Toshiba Canvio Basics 500GB HDD

Put peace of mind first, and make your memories last, with Toshiba's new Canvio® 3.0 portable hard drive, offering one of the simplest, most complete backup solutions in style. Designed for those who want an easy, effective way to preserve and restore their pictures, documents, music and videos—or their entire system—the Canvio® 3.0 delivers truly comprehensive, set-and-forget data protection. Offering up to 1 terabyte1 of storage, and powered by USB 3.0 technology, it lets you copy even some of the largest files off your PC and onto the drive faster than ever before, or use integrated cloud2 backup capabilities for extra protection. Thanks to a special internal shock sensor and ramp loading technology to guard against accidents and drops for greater peace of mind, it's also the perfect way to share or transport your digital content, and can be used with USB 2.0 connections, too. The 500GB1 Canvio is capable of storing up to 142,000 digital photos or 131,000 digital music files or 410 downloaded digital movies. Features: - Protects your most important and cherished digital content with cloud storage2 - Transfer your large media files at blazing fast speeds with USB 3.0 - Backward compatible with USB 2.0 - Provides file, folder, full system backup and recovery with pre-loaded software - Simple Restore – Click the Restore button to recover a file or folder - Complete System Backup – Keep a copy of everything on your computer, including the OS - Disaster Recovery – Boot to the drive and restore your entire system - Secure your backup with a password (Data Encryption up to 256-bit) - Drive Space Alert – Alerts you when running low on backup space - Internal shock sensor and ramp loading technology protects your drive and data 1 One Gigabyte (1GB) means 109 = 1,000,000,000 bytes and One Terabyte (1TB) means 1012 = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes using powers of 10. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1GB = 230 = 1,073,741,824 bytes and 1TB = 240 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes, and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system and other factors 2Includes free 30-day trial of cloud back-up.