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.

When copying a large file to the Canvio Flex 4TB via Total Commander, we can get a closer look at the real behavior of the included WD drive for such workload:

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The 4TB SKU can be found online for about 110 Euros, a good price for what is offered!

Toshiba Canvio Flex 4TB USB 3.2 Gen 1 External HDD is Recommended for:

We would like to thank again to Toshiba Corporation for making this review possible!