Review: Toshiba Canvio AeroMobile

Review: Toshiba Canvio AeroMobile

By Desire Athow

Review: Toshiba Canvio AeroMobile

Introduction and performance

From time to time, a product that appears to be promising lands on your desk, but ultimately ends up being a bit of a disappointment. Toshiba’s Canvio AeroMobile wireless portable SSD, which has a 128GB capacity, may sadly fall into that category if you’re thinking of buying it purely for storage reasons.

Seagate, Samsung and Western Digital have added Wi-Fi to a hard disk drive but none have tried – to our knowledge – to swap a spinning drive for a solid state one.

Toshiba Canvio AeroMobile profile

In theory, doing so makes it lighter, much faster, more resistant to shocks and power efficient; Toshiba claims that it can stream data for up to eight hours. At £110 from John Lewis (around $168, AU$216), it comes dangerously close to the £1/GB barrier, which is about twice what I’d expect to pay for an SSD of similar capacity.

That said, this gadget combines an SSD with an SD card reader, Wi-Fi capabilities and a battery, and the combination works very well if you’re ready to cough up for it.

Design

The AeroMobile is about 5-inch in length, …read more

Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac

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