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| Brand: | Freecom |
| Item Height : | 22 millimetres |
| Item Width: | 8.3 centimetres |
| Hard Drive | |
| Hard Drive Interface: | USB 2.0 |
Product Specifications
Technical Details
- External 2.5” Hard Drive
- Fast, low noise external mobile USB-2 hard drive
- Buspowered, no AC adapter needed*
- Excellent value for money
- No cooling fan, ensures quiet operation
- The easiest way to add and manage extra storage capacity to your notebook or desktop computer
- Hot swappable, no need to turn off your computer
- No device ID’s or terminations to worry about
- High quality, sleek design, only 13.9 x 8.3 x 2 cm, easy to take with you
- One years manufacturers warranty, free helpdesk support
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Compact storage on the go! Whether you are a professional or home user, these days it is essential to be able to carry your valuable data anywhere with you. Ultra compact, easy-to-use and secure, this USB 2.0 powered portable hard drive makes transporting and sharing data easier than ever. Simply plug it into any computer's USB port and take your spreadsheets, documents, movies, photo's or music anywhere you go. The perfect travel companion!
Need to expand your notebook, PC or Mac with a high capacity drive? No problem, the Freecom Mobile Drive Classic is available in 120, 160 & 250GB.
Don't want annoying noises while working? No problem, The Freecom Mobile Drive Classic has no cooling fan, which ensures quiet operation at all times.
Need a hard drive but want to be trendy as well? The Freecom Mobile Drive Classic has a stylish design. It will look perfect next to your notebook
The new Mobile Drive Classic has it all. A safe feeling, provided by Freecom. Free your mind!
Need to expand your notebook, PC or Mac with a high capacity drive? No problem, the Freecom Mobile Drive Classic is available in 120, 160 & 250GB.
Don't want annoying noises while working? No problem, The Freecom Mobile Drive Classic has no cooling fan, which ensures quiet operation at all times.
Need a hard drive but want to be trendy as well? The Freecom Mobile Drive Classic has a stylish design. It will look perfect next to your notebook
The new Mobile Drive Classic has it all. A safe feeling, provided by Freecom. Free your mind!
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Well over all this product looks really great and compared to some cheap looking 2.5" drives this one does look great. However functionality wise, well I can't comment because when I came to attaching this thing to my powerbook G4, it turns out the usb port doesn't provide enough power!! After some research I found that this is a common problem and the only way to power it would be to connect the drive to 2 usb ports...however you'll know if you have a powerbook G4 that there are only 2 usb's and they are on either side of the laptop!!! Damn! So although you can pick-up USB y cables to power the thing, at the end of the day it's probably not worth it if you wanna use anything else at the same time.
My advise if your using a PC laptop, then it's a real bargin! If your using a MAC, consider getting a IOMEGA 2.5" drive that has firewire and usb, which means you'll power the thing, but have the flexibility of USB.... :)
My advise if your using a PC laptop, then it's a real bargin! If your using a MAC, consider getting a IOMEGA 2.5" drive that has firewire and usb, which means you'll power the thing, but have the flexibility of USB.... :)
45 of 47 people found the following review helpful
There are loads of different hard drives on the market all pretty similar, this is the entry level offering from Freecom the only real difference being that this one comes in a plastic enclosure and the better one is aluminium. All the other brands Western Digital, Seagate, LACIE......all have plastic enclosures as well.
Freecom use the latest Hitachi hard drives and after an hour near silent use it gave off very little heat.
This drive is the best value per GB I could find it looks good it was delivered next day and from what I have read on the web Freecom customer services / support are very helpful and quick to respond.
Last thing to mention it is hot swappable so you don't need to turn off your computer you can just plug it in and start using. No need for a mains plug either its bus powered - pulls power through the USB cable.
There is now a 320GB version of this drive available (£74.99 on Amazon, search for 30722)
Freecom use the latest Hitachi hard drives and after an hour near silent use it gave off very little heat.
This drive is the best value per GB I could find it looks good it was delivered next day and from what I have read on the web Freecom customer services / support are very helpful and quick to respond.
Last thing to mention it is hot swappable so you don't need to turn off your computer you can just plug it in and start using. No need for a mains plug either its bus powered - pulls power through the USB cable.
There is now a 320GB version of this drive available (£74.99 on Amazon, search for 30722)
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
I bough this product a week ago. I am using it on Mac.
Installation was quick and painless as there wasn't any. I simply plugged in the USB and it worked. I re-formatted the drive in Mac OS Extended format and am using it as a back-up drive. Mac Time Machine took maybe an hour to back-up 50GB of data, very impressive speed.
The only downside so far: the drive is a bit noisy. To be clear: this is not the read/write noise, but it simply the noise of either the drive spinning or there may be a fan inside the casing. Either way, I can hear the drive quite clearly when it sits on my desk.
I have had a smaller Freecom drive before that didn't make any noise whatsoever.
Overall rating: 4 out of 5.
Installation was quick and painless as there wasn't any. I simply plugged in the USB and it worked. I re-formatted the drive in Mac OS Extended format and am using it as a back-up drive. Mac Time Machine took maybe an hour to back-up 50GB of data, very impressive speed.
The only downside so far: the drive is a bit noisy. To be clear: this is not the read/write noise, but it simply the noise of either the drive spinning or there may be a fan inside the casing. Either way, I can hear the drive quite clearly when it sits on my desk.
I have had a smaller Freecom drive before that didn't make any noise whatsoever.
Overall rating: 4 out of 5.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Easy to use but stopped working quickly
Bought this a few weeks ago from Amazon, delivery was prompt. No problems getting it to work on either my laptop (running Vista) or my desktop (running XP) - just plugged it in and... Read more
Published on 9 Mar 2009 by Alycya Jane
No problems at all - great back up solution
Bought this to create back ups. Perfect for this purpose. Easily installed and to date problem free.
Published on 2 Mar 2009 by C. Quinn
Freecom Mobile Hard Drive Classic 250GB (2.5-inch, USB2)
Excellent product, easy to use (drag and drop files). Will stack, I have three of these for photos, work and music collections.
Published on 4 Feb 2009 by COOP
The perfect backup solution
This was purchased mainly to back-up a laptop. It does exactly what it says on the tin..... The first time you plug it in just takes a minute or two whilst device drivers load up. Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2009 by IceBear
Ideal for backup or mobile media
This product now holds all my music/photos/TV shows and sits connected to my PS3. This means i can keep the PS3 capacity free for Play TV recordings. Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2009 by Mark Carter
If your running Vista
Don't bother buying this hard drive. although it is advertised at Vista compatible, it is NOT. I spent several hours trying to find a patch so Vista would recognise it but there... Read more
Published on 20 Jan 2009 by C. Noon
Ease of use , slinky good looks and price make this hard drive well...
Deciding not before time , that it was probably a good idea to back up all the precious music, photo,s etc on my PC, lest it explode in a shower of sparks and little shiny bits i... Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2009 by russell clarke
Great little drive but use a decent USB port!
Great a little drive this but found that when I was trying to originally format the partitions as NTFS it kept hanging and Vista was saying it wasn't responding/recognised. Read more
Published on 6 Jan 2009 by D. Stokes
Freecom or Samsung?
Very quick delivery, as other reviewers have commented, appears to have a quality feel about it. Had to laugh at the manufactures label; 'German technology, made in China'. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2009 by TEB
Class Act.
Very easy to use piece of kit . I bought this as an extension to my laptop & found it very easy to use - plug it in & it's ready to use in less than a minute. Read more
Published on 27 Dec 2008 by Pr Goff
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