Product Comparison: Toshiba Canvio AeroCast vs Seagate Wireless Plus

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Toshiba Canvio AeroCast Wireless Hard Drive

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Seagate Wireless Plus 1TB Portable Hard Drive with Built-in WiFi

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General Specifications

Brand

Toshiba

Seagate

Model

Canvio AeroCast

Wireless Plus

Origin

China

About the Product

Blending the benefits of high-capacity external storage with the ultimate in wireless freedom, the Canvio AeroCast Wireless Hard Drive is a fast and reliable all-in-one device that can help you manage your storage needs—completely wirelessly. It's time to store, see, share and enjoy all your files—anywhere you want—all from one place.

With Seagate Wireless Plus, you can enjoy your media and access your files without wires or the Internet. This mobile storage device broadcasts its own Wi-Fi network, so you can wirelessly stream your media.

Key Specs

Storage Drive Type

HDD

Capacity

1000 GB

2000 GB

What customers say about "Key Specs"

Toshiba Canvio AeroCast Wireless Hard Drive

I like USB 3 for faster PC transfer.
Transferring data is great, everything works perfectly!
No complaints. Compact, seemingly robust little bugger. Transfers are extremely fast. I take it everywhere with me.
Much faster than my Flash stick which is USB 3.0 as well and just as fast on Windows Machine.
It used to disconnect and reconnect sometimes, now it does it frequently enough to make one afraid to data transfer.

Seagate Wireless Plus 1TB Portable Hard Drive with Built-in WiFi

Very good looking drive, strong, capacious and well built. It's as tall as an iPhone 5S, but about 50% wider.
So far I have had no real issues with this unit. Full of space and high speed.
Massive Amount of Storage Space. Highly recommend.
One of the biggest strengths of this reasonably small portable hard drive is that it has a gargantuan amount of space.
It's a very nice looking item and serves its basic purpose as an external hard drive. It transfers files quickly and has plenty of space.

Size & Weight

Color

Gray

Height

1 in.

0.8 in.

Width

5 in.

Depth

4.8 in.

3.5 in.

Weight

0.62 lbs.

0.6 lbs.

Features

Type

Portable

OS Compatibility

Mac OS 10.6 or higher, Windows 7 or higher, Android 4.0 or higher, iOS 6.0 or higher

Windows XP or higher, Mac OS 10.6 or higher

Interfaces

Wi-Fi, USB 3.0, SD Card slot

Wi-Fi, USB 3.0

Backup Function

Yes

Extras

Built-in rechargeable battery with up to five hours of battery life, Up to 6 simultaneous users

Synchronizes with Dropbox and Google Drive, Streams up to three different HD movies to three devices at the same time, Connects throughout your home to DLNA devices

What customers say about "Features"

Toshiba Canvio AeroCast Wireless Hard Drive

Transfer time from the SD card reader to the HDD is fast enough for my purposes. It took around 20 minutes to transfer 15G of video files, which is fine for me.
After all it's it a pretty fast 3.0 HDD when u use it with the cable.
The backup speed is good and data copying has always been reliable.
SD card backup is convenient for long trips instead of carrying multiple cards.
Wi-Fi performance is too slow. SD speed is also slow. The smartphone app is hard to use.

Seagate Wireless Plus 1TB Portable Hard Drive with Built-in WiFi

Loading files is drag and drop simple. This is great for time saving.
In remote environments you can connect your tablet, phone or computer to the device directly.
You can connect the device to an existing wifi connection and have access to all of your files in the device while maintaining internet connectivity.
The idea of a drive I could use while being crammed on a plane wirelessly was ideal.
The official Seagate Media App is awful. It's a nightmare to use if you have a large media collection.

Included

Number Of Drives

Software

Mobile App

Additional Accessories

USB cable, AC adapter

Compact USB wall charger

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Toshiba Canvio AeroCast Wireless Hard Drive