Toshiba XS700

By Desire Athow

The external drive market is divided into two camps: on one side, there are those who want the cheapest possible storage and usually opt for hard drives with a metal platter (spinning rust as some call it), while others go for solid-state drives (SSDs) that offer an optimal balance between cost, size and performance, with storage capacity taking a back seat.

With that in mind, Toshiba has introduced a new external SSD, the XS700, which has a capacity of 240GB and uses Toshiba’s 64-layer BiCS flash technology as well as a USB 3.1 Gen 2 interface. Only one model of this drive is currently available but expect bigger capacities, probably up to 2TB, to be released in the near future.

The Toshiba XS700 costs $94 (around £70) at Newegg in the US with no immediate availability in the UK and elsewhere.

Design

The drive is larger than expected at 95 x 75 x 11mm (with a weight of 90g). It has a lightweight aluminum frame with a rubber underbelly and an LED ring on the top/front surface, which lights up when it is connected to a powered-on host like a laptop.

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Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac