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  | Freecom Classic 500GB 3.5" External USB2.0 Hard Drive / Black£64.99 Free DeliveryRRP: £79.99 | You save: £15.00 (18%) In stock | Usually dispatched within 24 hours |
( - 500GB HDD Holds:
- Up to 142,000 digital photos
- Up to 125,000 songs (MP3)
- Up to 12,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
- Up to 38 hours of Digital Video (DV)
- Up to 200 hours of DVD quality video
- Up to 60 hours of HD video
- Product Description: Freecom Hard Drive- 500 GB - Hi-Speed USB
- Type: Hard drive - external
- Form Factor: 3.5"
- Dimensions (WxDxH): 11.5 cm x 20 cm x 4 cm
- Weight: 0.75 kg
- Capacity: 500 GB
- Interface Type: Hi-Speed USB
- Data Transfer Rate: 480 Mbps
- Average Seek Time: 9 ms
- Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm
- OS Required: Apple MacOS X 10.1 or later, Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP/ Vista
- Power Source: Included AC adapter
- Manufacturer Warranty: 1 years warranty
Stylish and cost-effective external hard drive solution
Today's 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.
Average rating (23 reviews)
Great value, good product
Benstarr | 01/07/2009 | See all Benstarr's reviews (6) »
I bought this as a first forray into external storage, and really can't praise it higher. I use it for all of my Itunes music, and regularly play directly from it with no problems whatsoever. It also acts as a storage device for all of my other media without fault. I'm a little worried about complaints of it stopping, I've got irreplacable data on there. Though I don't run it ALL the time, it's not got anything stored on or next to it, and it seems perfectly happy. Quiet and efficient. Would totally recommend it. Specially now at the price it's at. Just be wary, Formatted it's about 465gb, and it doesn't half fill up quick. I'm in the market for a 1TB jobbie to sit along side it.
Good value for money, easy to set up, very quiet
Albatroff | 29/06/2009 | See all Albatroff's reviews (7) »
I bought this as a back-up drive for my son's PC as I've been using a 250GB Freecom desk top drive for some time without problems. It's delivered in FAT32 format, so you might want to reformat as NTFS for PC use. Other than that it's "plug in a go". The HDD is actually a Samsung drive. It's very, very quiet: the PC fan makes more noise than this drive.
Great Drive - PS3 compatible
Keefyd | 20/06/2009 | See all Keefyd's reviews (3) »
This is my second Freecom Drive, and yet again, performs as per spec. Runs virtually silent, which is a bit unnerving at first, but operationally, there are no issues.
Some facts you need to know:
Drive size: Not actually 500Gb, but 465GB
PS3 Compatible? Yes! Plug and play via USB. It is best to transfer a file via the PS3 to the hard drive first, as it creates a file folder -
I have not done this the other way round, so come experimentation may be in order.
The key to it working with a PS3 is that you MUST NOT format the drive, no matter how tempted you are to do so - PS3's do not recognise NTFS, you simply use the drive as is when it arrives (in FAT32 format) - only snag is that you cannot partition it in FAT32 (to my knowledge).
A good bit of kit - and great VFM.
