The Hitachi Touro Desk Pro comes in three different flavors: 1TB, 2TB or 3TB and for delivering high performance transfer speeds, the product is delivered with 7200RPM drives. Compared to the older XL3000 model, the Touro Desk Pro is no more limited by the bus speed and the necessary cable is supplied, to be able to connect it to a spare USB port.
For an added product value, Hitachi also gives us 3GB free of storage data (upgradeable to 250GB by subscription) in the cloud along with a backup application, which can make copies of the data we need on the drive, but also on our free “in the cloud” storage space.
Also, the enclosure has been redesigned and now comes with a Kensington lock, but still does not have an On/Off button. Also, it would have been better to include a longer USB 3.0, because the provided one is quite short.
The enclosure features ventilation holes on the bottom, in the back but none on the top side; the temperatures we obtain after two hours of usage are near the ones we have seen with the XL3000, so it would be good if we place the product in a well ventilated place:
As a comparison, with active cooling, the Hitachi HDS723030ALA640 drives we can find inside the 3TB versions of the product can idle at 35 degrees Celsius and in Full Load we can see temperatures between 37 and 39 degrees.
The product can be found on online shops for about 170 Euros.
Hitachi Touro Desk Pro 3TB USB 3.0 External HDD Recommended For:
I would like to thank again to Hitachi for making this review possible!