Product Description

Stylish and cost-effective external hard drive solution Todays world is all about Gigabytes. Programs and data take up more and more storage space. The need for installing an extra hard drive on your PC or Mac is more present than ever. Opening your computer case and installing an internal hard drive can be a difficult job. So why not take the easy route? Freecom offers you the perfect storage upgrade for your computer: the new Freecom Hard Drive Classic, a no-nonsense external hard drive. No need to open your computer; just plug the Hard Drive into the USB (2.0 or 1.1) port of your PC or MAC and you instantly have a substantial increase in storage space. The Freecom Hard Drive Classic is pre-formatted so youre ready to use your drive seconds after connecting it to your computer. At Freecom we create storage solutions from a consumers perspective, where convenience, design and quality are key factors. Free your mind! External USB 2.0 Hard Drive Fast, low noise external USB 2.0 Hard Drive Quiet drive thanks to fanless design Including LED hard drive capacity indicator The easiest way to add extra storage capacity to your computer Hot swappable, no need to turn off your computer No device IDs or terminations to worry about High quality, sleek design, only 20 x 11,5 x 4 cm One year manufacturers warranty, free helpdesk support Ideal for home and office use Home use: Store all your digital photos, music, movies, games on one central location Take the Freecom Hard Drive Classic with you and share your files with friends Make an extra backup of all your important documents and files Office use: Store all your spreadsheets, documents, presentations on one central location Take the drive home or on the road and work on your files away from the office Make an extra backup of your valuable work files Share data between computers and networks Use the Freecom Hard Drive Classic fo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35474 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Freecom
• Model: 29492
• Released on: 2007-08-07
• Dimensions: 1.57" h x 4.53" w x 7.87" l, 1.65 pounds
• Hard Disk: 500GB

Features

• Hard Drive Classic 500GB
• Hard Drive Classic 500GB

Manufacturer's Description
Todays world is all about Gigabytes. Programs and data take up more and more storage space. The need for installing an extra hard drive on your PC or Mac is more present than ever. Opening your computer case and installing an internal hard drive can be a difficult job. So why not take the easy route? Freecom offers you the perfect storage upgrade for your computer: the new Freecom Hard Drive Classic, a no-nonsense external hard drive. No need to open your computer; just plug the Hard Drive into the USB (2.0 or 1.1) port of your PC or MAC and you instantly have a substantial increase in storage space. The Freecom Hard Drive Classic is pre-formatted so youre ready to use your drive seconds after connecting it to your computer. At Freecom we create storage solutions from a consumers perspective, where convenience, design and quality are key factors. Free your mind!

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Customer Reviews

Good value
Black case looks good and good value for money.
Compared with the more expensive 'silver' 500GB drive this has a (high quality) plastic case rather than aluminium, 1 rather than 2 years warrantee, and does not include the Freecom backup software.
The case has holes on the bottom and back to partially make up for the poorer heat dissipation of plastic than aluminium.
It does get distinctly warmer, and is fractionally noiser than the silver (I have both) but nothing to worry about.
Both (at least currently) use the excellent (i.e. cool and quiet) Samsung HD501LJ mechanism.

Very Impressed
I spent two or three days researching external HDD's, and eventually, after some protracted head-scratching, I decided to go for this one.

Essentially (or so it seems), buying any make or model of external HDD can be somewhat of a lottery, as you simply cannot legislate for the myriad of problems that these types of drives can incur. After canvassing opinion both off and online, the general consensus seemed to be that out of the three most common manufacturers (Seagate, Freecom and WD), Freecom HDD's were, generally, slightly more stable and reliable than the others. So, after spotting this 500GB model for under £80, I decided to go for it.

The drive is solid, quite weighty, and approximately the size of a VHS tape (albeit slightly thicker). The installation process is basic and only requires the connection of a power lead, and a USB chord - the help manual comes on a CD.

After the initial set-up, I checked the properties of my new HDD, and was pleased to see that the drive used in my new HDD was a Samsung HD501LJ model. It had been mentioned to me previously that Samsung drives were usually pretty reliable, and thus I felt even more pleased about my new piece of kit.

As far as daily use - so far, so good! It's on almost 24/7 and everything has worked as it should. It transfers 4GB of VOB files in about 6 minutes, runs warm to very-warm, sits in almost complete silence on my desk, and looks rather smart in jet-black, with only its small blue LED light giving any indication of activity. The only thing I've changed on the HDD is the file system, which, when it was delivered, was pre-formatted to FAT32 (apparently enabling broader compatibility with older versions of Windows). I reformatted to NTFS which took just over an hour, as this file system is more up-to date and is able to cope with meta-data on media files, which FAT32 cannot.

Highly recommended.

Great!
What a great deal and a nice design too.

Contrary to rumour - this drive has a 16mb buffer/cache as I wanted to find know before I purchased.

I actually rung Freecom and they told me what internal hard drive they use, they were very helpful.

The drive itself is everything you could want at a great price. I would recommend this drive to anyone wishing to purchase an external dstorage device