Hitachi Touro Mobile Pro review: Hitachi Touro Mobile Pro

The Hitachi Touro Mobile Pro portable drive looks sexy, enough that some would buy it just because of its look. But the drive's appeal doesn't stop there. Supporting USB 3.0 and based on an internal drive that spins at 7,200rpm, the drive also offers decent performance. On top of that, Hitachi bundles 3GB of online storage with it in case you want to back up important documents online.

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Hitachi Touro Mobile Pro

The Good

The <b>Hitachi Touro Mobile Pro</b> portable drive supports USB 3.0, offers good performance, and comes in a sleek, aesthetically pleasant design. It includes 3GB of Hitachi cloud storage.

The Bad

The Hitachi Touro Mobile Pro's storage capacity is capped at only 750GB. The drive doesn't offer other peripheral connections, such as FireWire or eSATA.

The Bottom Line

The Hitachi Touro Mobile Pro portable drive is a fast and simple mobile storage option for those who want to carry around extra data.

The Touro isn't perfect, missing support for FireWire and eSATA. It also caps at just 750GB of storage, half that of some other portable drives on the market, such as the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra-portable. At a street price of just around $90 for 750GB (or $75 for the 500GB version), however, the Touro still makes a very good companion for those who need extra storage to use on the go.

For more storage and better flexibility, we also recommend the drives in Seagate's GoFlex family.