Freecom Classic 3.5" 1TB External Hard Drive - USB2, Black - Electronics / Photography (Freecom)

Hard Drive Classic 1TB

Customer Reviews of Freecom Classic 3.5" 1TB External Hard Drive - USB2, Black

beardyian
Portsmouth, England
20th November 2008

Couldnt be better
Having bought smaller models (500GB) i knew this version would be just as good and i wasn't wrong.
If you're not sure about it, don't be - its a great buy.

Mr. Shane Lamont
London
11th November 2008

Does exactly what it says on the tin
Fast, reliable and cheap? Normally you get two out of three but with this drive it's a full score on all three.

One terrabyte for 99 pounds? Seemed too good to be true given other drives for 500mb were around the GBP70 mark.

I've had this for about 2 months now, waiting to see how reliable it was before sharing a review.

It has been superb, no issues at all, and with no drivers needed, it could not be easier to use.

I use it for storage of high def video and backups of my 160GB laptop. A conversion to ntfs from fat took about 5 minutes with no issues at all (needed if you have very large files (eg video).

I haven't been able to verify that I get full 480mbps throughput when writing large files from laptop/video camera to the drive, but I've no complaints about the speed.

I am impressed with this drive and will be ordering another identical drive so that I can use synctoy (free from Microsoft website) to have a mirror copy of my backup drive. Even though this has been superbly reliable (no bad sectors etc), I'm not willing to take a chance with videos/backups as a single point of failure.

With the price drop to GBP 89, it's hard to see how this can be bettered.

Pyro
Sheffield, UK
24th October 2008

Very Good So Far !!
Just had the hard drive for about a week now, and already in love with it. Reformatted to NTFS format. Actual Available space: 931GB (Kind of expected). This is my second Freecom Hard drive. Also have the 400GB Aluminium encased hard drive. I chose this model over the same priced Western Digital model (i currently own the 250GB MyBook), based on the reviews and my own personal experience with both brands.
I think I made the right decision, though both brands have served me well. As soon as i got the hard drive I dumped the entire 400GB from my other freecom onto this one and happy to say no problems though it took a long time lol.
This is my fifth external hard drive, so I think I have some experience lol (80GB, 250GB, 320GB, 400GB, and now 1TB. Brands include Toshiba, Lacie, Western Digital and Freecom). I currently have over 2TB in memory space and it keeps growing.
I would highly recommend this product to anyone.
Cheers

me
wales
11th October 2008

brill
this is my second freecom the first i had 18months ago and still going strong the new one is 1000gig ,took it out of the box plugged in the mains lead and usb into the pc turned on and away it went .i would recommend this product to anyone .....one very happy customer

fly_mo
Bedford, UK
23rd September 2008

Does what it says on the tin
Looks well made, runs quietly, not too hot, and it reformatted to a mix of VFAT, NTFS, and EXT (linux) to suit our needs, no problems. Took a while, mind! Big drive.
Been working unobtrusively ever since. So far, Freecom drives have served us well over several years, this one seems to be on track to do the same.
Recommended.