Great External Hard Drive (Freecom Mobile Drive Classic 400 GB)

Member Name: jinit6

Product:	Freecom Mobile Drive Classic 400 GB
Date:	14/10/09 (22 review reads)
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Advantages: Runs off USB

Disadvantages: Is not as fast compared to mains powered drives

I bought this hard drive from dabs around 6 months ago now, and it has been working great.

The hard drive itself is quite slim and small, so it can be placed almost anywhere, I have mine on top of the PC. The length of it is around the size of a pen. It comes in a matt black finish and as the word "400gb" written on the front, which lights up in blue, this light also flashes for you know when it is in use.

One of the great things about this hard drive is that is does not require a mains plug to run on, instead it can run via the USB. The hard drive does come with a mains plug in hole in the drive, but it is not really required if you using with a average PC or Laptop.

But as a run the drive through the USB port it means that the drive does perform slow compared to other mains powered drive, so it does take extra time when transferring large amounts of data.

400gb of an external drive is big enough I feel, as I am able to back up important files and still have large amounts of space free. The hard drive comes to great use when you formatting your PC, as I found out last month, I did not need to burn any DVD to save data, instead just use the drive.

The hard drive works well on all the systems that I have tried on, window XP & Vista, and on a Mac. Just plug in and use.
I have not found any problems with the drive yet, such as corrupt data or so.

Excellent external drive.

Summary: Excellent external drive.

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