Freecom Storage Reviews

"Network attached storage (NAS) is generally too expensive for single users or very small businesses to consider, but the Classic SL Network Drive offers an interesting and cost-effective alternative...Freecom offers a selection of drive sizes with the model on review kitted out with a 160GB ATA hard disk...Next, you can choose to mount the drive in read only or read-write mode..." read more »

"Register to receive the latest Reviews and News Headlines directly to your Inbox every day, and enter our regular competitions...There also appears to be some confusion about the two buttons on the front panel as Freecom's web site and product brochure allude to the upper button being used to unlock an encrypted partition on the appliance...Nevertheless, we created a backup job on the appliance and found that pressing the button twice in quick succession activated it..." read more »

"The Freecom FHD-2 PRO is one such...The FHD-2 PRO has an uncanny resemblance to a shovel-head...300 GB is enough to take a backup of a system or two...The Freecom FHD-2 PRO is elegant, and is light enough to be easily carried around..." read more »

"The latter can create an image – an exact copy of an entire partition or hard drive – which can be copied to the external disk as a backup, and updated when files or folders change on the computer...Alternatively Freecom Backup can be used to choose specific files, folders or file types, and Personal Media Suite offers encryption and the aforementioned auto synchronisation...These are all fairly standard features as far as external hard disks go, so it would have been nice if Freecom made them a little more accessible..." read more »

"Naturally, you'll pay a premium for an external drive over an internal one, but the margin isn't as big as it used to be and the sheer convenience is worth it if the ultimate in speed isn't an issue...The first external hard disk we examined was the Freecom Hard Drive Classic 500GB, a simple device with an emphasis firmly on function rather than design...At just £66, the Freecom offers good value..." read more »

"In this first part of my external hard drive reviews, the Freecom Hard Drive Pro at 400GB offers massive USB 2.0 plug and play storage that also features an eSATA connection that is both new and rare in desktops/notebooks as well as the drives themselves...As well as the expected USB 2.0 port being present on the Hard Drive Pro, the newcomer to external data connectivity is eSATA and looks like a normal SATA connection that internal hard drives use with some extra additions to the connector design to make it more durable...Freecom have developed an affordable external hard drive solution for a little over £110 that will allow for a massive 400GB of storage for your backup needs with fast transfer rates in a small enclosure..." read more »

"With LAN connection as an added bonus...Mediaplayer-35, the player that covers all AV-file formats...The Freecom Mediaplayer-35 is a costeffective, dedicated harddrive based mobile multimedia player that seamlessly delivers digital media (video, audio) from your PC to the television, projector or Hi-fi set...Enjoy movies and photoâ??s on your TV, music on your home stereo or use the MediaPlayer as a fast hard drive..." read more »

"It's a very flexible way of tackling the problem of getting video from PC to television...This restricts video to standard definition 720 x 576 resolution or below ??" but output still looked pretty good on our 24in test screen, with no sign of pixellation, jaggies or de-interlacing artifacts...Audio support is similarly patchy, with MP3, WMA and WAV files supported, but not AAC..." read more »

"The Freecom's packaging proudly proclaims that the Mobile Drive XXS is the "world's smallest 2.5in hard drive", and a glance at the device in question seems to support these claims...What this means is that, if you can put up with the slightly dubious rubberised case, the Freecom represents a very good deal..." read more »