The Connect’s bread and butter is that it offers advanced features for a portable consumer drive at a value price point including remote access, content sharing and scheduled backups. Additionally, Toshiba has now integrated the USB interface onto the circuit board, replacing the bridge connector and thus shortening the Canvio Connect’s length by a third. While the existing model tops off at 1.5TB, the new Connect can hit 2TB. The Canvio Connect features several enhancements over the previous generation. It replaces the existing the Canvio USB 3.0 in the series which falls in the middle by offering backups not found with the Basics model, but not the high-end automatic backups found in the company’s highest-end portable drive.

The Canvio Connect is Toshiba’s latest addition to the Canvio line of drives which are designed for everyday media and file storage applications.

The Toshiba Canvio Connect is a lifestyle portable storage device that interfaces over USB 3.0 and has capacity up to 2TB while simultaneously offering significant backup tools and remote access to digital content.

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