There are scores of companies that are producing external hard discs these days and one of the renowned ones is Hitachi who recently rolled out the Touro Mobile Pro portable drive with USB 3.0 along with a data storage capacity of 500 GB. USB 3.0 which was once a USP has now become a must have for all devices as the interface provides quicker data transfer. This switch is also being made by the portable hard disc manufacturers as USB 3.0 is gradually becoming the norm. We have reviewed this hard drive for you and you can then decide whether the hard drive is worth owing or not.
Talking about the external features the Touro Mobile Pro has a glazed black exterior and carries the company’s name embossed on the front side and the model name, number and storage capacity on the back. The device is quite sleek and which adds to its portability. The downside is that the drive doesn’t seem to scratch resistant and it tends to get tarnished with fingerprints whenever touched. But if that doesn’t really bother you then you would be pleased to know that the model weighs close to 155 grams and can be carried around easily.
Coming to the features of the device the USB 3.0 hard drive has usable storage capacity of 465 GB. The internal drive that is present within the device runs at 7200 rpm and also has a cache memory of 15 MB. The device supports two data backup and storage formats, that is local and cloud. Cloud format provides a free storage of 3GB for registered users.
Hitachi Touro has been priced at Rs.4,408. Other than the local data storage capabilities it also provides additional 3GB of data backup on the cloud. On testing the device is surely quicker than most portable drives.
