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Toshiba Canvio Flex 4TB USB 3.2 Gen 1 External HDD Review

Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2024-10-05

The Canvio Flex 4TB drive from Toshiba does perform as expected for a 4TB 2.5’’ drive, MQ04UBB400 relying less on caching versus the drives found with Silicon Power external drives, which usually use Western Digital internals. Unlike models from WD, the internal board of the drive does offer a Micro-B 3.0 connector directly and not SATA, so no daughterboards are required here and the overall length of the total assembly is shorter.

Test Setup and Extra Info

The test system did incorporate a AMD Ryzen 5 7900X 12-core CPU, an ANACOMDA Eryx Tataricus RGB 2x16GB DDR5 6000MHz memory kit, but also a Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus NVMe 4.0 2TB SSD; all these were connected to the BIOSTAR X670E VALKYRIE AM5 motherboard. As a power supply we have chosen a Cooler Master 850W non-modular and the system was running the latest Windows 11 OS build as well.

When powered on for the first time, we noted that the drive was already formatted exFAT:

We then proceeded with a NTFS format, to match all previously tested drives:

With the help of AIDA64, we will be able to extract some more information about the drive, which is a Toshiba MQ04UBB400, with a platter rotation speed of 5400RPM and is mainly found as an OEM drive:

On the drive we will find the manual in electronic PDF format, but also some safety instructions:

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