Disappointment - Why Toshiba changed the connector?
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- Опубліковано 14 січ 2019
- In this video, I will share with you guys my experience of opening a Toshiba Canvio Premium external portable hard drive. Be warned: it does not have a standard SATA connection.
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They changed the port because if the connector get broken, people will buy another one,,which is their profit but the buyers data loss😅
Thanks. Now i have a good reason not to buy it 😋
No right to repair. What about data recovery? Not everyone has the facilities for this kind of technical recovery.
I wouldn't recommend buying external hard drives which don't have a standard SATA connector inside because some USB 3.0 controllers can fail at random moments and if a disk has just a USB connector soldered into the logic board, you won't be able to plug it directly to a SATA port to recover your data. On a side note: I can easily guess why Toshiba changed that interface. They just wanted to make their external HDDs impossible to use as internal hard drives and to force people to buy internal drives which are often more expensive than their USB versions. It's all about making more money,as always.
This type of connector disables the posibility of an easy data recovery :(
So annoying! I was going to use it as an internal as the stupid thing keep sleeping, can't use it to play anything directly. Only useful as redundant archival storage!
What a scam. Here we pay N$1100 for an external SSD. N$2900 for internal SSD. So yeah, they changed so they can make more money..?? so stupid changing the adapters.
Same with the 2.5" WD Elements I got. Cheaper for them to skip making an adapter if there's enough volume in the portable drives.
thanks for this i was just about to buy a 4TB Toshiba Canvio Advance to do the same
its done to reduce cost.
Thanks for sharing... saved me from destroying mine. Guess I'll return it and do more research next time before I actually buy the drive. It's probably a great external drive, but I need one to go inside a SFF desktop turned portable server.
Do you know what kind of adapter I can use to connect to a sata bridge?
Hey, what should I do if my hard drive dies and has no SATA bridge?
Yeah mine started doing the click of death, so I opened it expecting to find a sata drive hoping it was just the usb converter that failed, so now I know to research any external drive before buying so I'm not stuck with crap like this again.
HI. can this cause problems in the functioning of the light and the hdd movement? Thx
Sir any converter for it to use as internal
Can the board be replaced or repaired if is not responding please?
I almost opened mine. I was looking around to see if there's an adapter for this to convert it to sata. So far no luck. Mostly stuff to make hard drives external and not the reverse.
It's a total disaster, my Toshiba hard driver connector is broken, and i can't replace it without replacing the whole board, what else can i do?
I'm currently looking between this one or ADATA HV620, planning to use it on my laptop.