Posted by Notcot on Jun 7, 2010 in
Handhelds & PDAs |
Average Rating: 4.5 / 5 (65 Reviews)
Product Description
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The Freecom Hard Drive XS – world’s smallest 3
5″ external hard drive – is the ideal hard drive for cost-conscious users who do not want to compromise on quality and performance
Store your videos, photos, music, documents and other data on this extremely quiet hard drive and have your data always ready at hand
Thanks to its compact measurements the drive does not take up much space on your desk
The rubber enclosure provides the drive with optimal grip and reduces vibration
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Product Description |
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Freecom Hard Drive XS – hard drive – 1 TB – Hi-Speed USB |
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Type |
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Hard drive – external |
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Form Factor |
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3.5″ |
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Dimensions (WxDxH) |
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18.2 cm x 11.4 cm x 3.1 cm |
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Fast external USB 2.0 hard drive solution
The worlds smallest 3.5 inch external hard drive!
High quality rubber cover provides optimal grip
The easiest way to add extra storage capacity to
Turbo USB 2.0 for faster access
Freecom 31973 Hard Drive XS 1TB USB-2
Buy Now for £70.45
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Superb drive. Practically silent in operation and pretty fast. Windows XP and Ubuntu64 pick it up straight away without the need to reboot. Even the boot option menu offered by my motherboard includes the drive complete with the ‘FREECOM HDD’ volume label.
Although the drive comes preformatted to FAT32 (best option for flexibility), I ended up using NTFS. I should add that although the description states the presence of a Power/Activity LED, I haven’t seen one – yet. I just need to find out where it is. Even if there isn’t one, the drive is still excellent.
Rating: 5 / 5
I had a couple of requirements: quiet, spin down when not in use, spin down when my laptop goes to sleep. This drive along with my other freecom drive meet the requirements. I was worried this one would not be fanless and so not be as quiet because it’s not in an aluminum enclosure, but it is fanless and it is utterly silent.
This drive is so quiet and it’s hard to even tell when it is on unless it’s doing some I/O.
I have Apple computers and I use the drive for Time Machine backups. I also had the drive (briefly) hooked up to an Apple Airport Extreme Base Station and was doing Time Machine backups over the network for a while. It worked fine in both circumstances. Awesome drive. I am thinking of getting another one but I don’t quite need it yet…
Rating: 5 / 5
I brought this product to serve primarily two purposes:
1. Back up my ever increasing volume of photographs.
2. Back up my official data (mails / documents / etc).
The device is quite heavy for its size and is very silent (as advertized). Its Plug n Play works just fine and once connected, it can be used like any other USB flash drive.
I have faced only two “inconviniences” with this product. The first is that it is not as portable as I expected it to be. It comes with its own power unit and I have already mentioned that it is quite heavy. So carrying it to different places is a challenge. The second is that it came formatted in FAT32. WinXP and all other new OS that I am aware of uses NTFS. FAT32 is not a problem in itself unless you want to move files greater than 2GB (unfortunately my mail archives are much bigger). I had archived almost 50% of my stuff before I hit upon this limitation. So I had to un-archive, format to NTFS and and then Re-Archive all my data.
Final Verdict: Good buy for the price
Rating: 4 / 5
Simple to use, convienient multi-country adapter and just plugs in to any PC. No issues, no nothing. Wonderful, if slightly cumbersome when used with a laptop. But if you’re in the same place for a few hours at a time, no problem
Rating: 5 / 5
This is my third Freecom external HD, and was purchased as I wanted a back-up on one single drive (it may signal that I may be over doing the backing up!!!). One can’t be too careful with precious digital photographs and videos.
The drive is simple to use, will work with both Windows and Mac OS, is quiet, and has a (tough) outer rubber cover (not removable?). My relationship with Freecom started approx. 10/11 years ago with an internal CD-RW and I’ve always been pleased with the products. There are slightly cheaper drives available, but I’m sticking with the experience I’ve had with this manufacturer, and I’d heard of recurring problems with other makes (despite owning a portable WD passport).
A TB for this price is great too. My only niggle is that the USB lead is not long enough, not a crisis though.
Rating: 5 / 5