Toshiba Unveils Canvio Gaming Portable Hard Drives, Canvio Advance, and N300 Pro NAS HDDs

Toshiba may have spun off its flash memory business into Kioxia, but the company still makes mechanical hard-drives and derivative products such as portable HDDs. Alla 2023 CES internazionale, the company showed off its Canvio Gaming line of portable HDDs. These USB 3.1 portable hard drives come in capacities of up to 4 TB, and support both Xbox and PlayStation consoles, where they can be used to store entire libraries of games that can be made ready to play faster than fetching the game from the Internet.

The Canvio Advance series targets professionals on the move providing storage of up to 4 TB, with auto-backup both to itself and the cloud (though your PC), and data-encryption. The Canvio Ready and Canvio Flex target consumer use-cases. The latter in particular has a broad device compatibility spanning PCs, Mac, tablets, and handhelds, with USB-C and type-A interfaces. Lastly there’s the N300 line of enterprise hard drives targeting NAS applications, which come in capacities of up to 18 TB, con un massimo di 7,200 RPM spindle speed, and CMR recording (no SMR). These drives are designed for 24×7 operazione, come with up to 1.2 million hours MTTF at 300 TB/year workload, and are backed by 5-year warranties.