| Freecom 31973 Hard Drive XS 1TB USB-2 | 
| Brand: Freecom
Category: Personal Computer
Buy New: £62.68
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Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 346
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 1000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.5 x 1.2
MPN: 4021801319739
Model: 31973
EAN: 4021801319739
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 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 |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Freecom FC Hard Drive XS 1TB USB 31973 Storage External Hard Drives
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 85
 Superb February 2, 2010
Mr. R. A. Macpherson (Devon)
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
After much research into external hard drives, I decided to go for this one, and I'm very pleased I did. Freecom may not be the best known name on the market, but I have experience of their products. A couple of years ago, I bought an external lightscribe CD/DVD rewriter from them, and it's excellent.
My first impressions of this drive were a little odd - I'm not into rubber or anything!! - but you just want to touch this. Lol. Unlike most hardware, it's soft, warm, and looks great. I plugged it in, booted my pc up, and there it was. I re-formatted it to NTFS and decided to partition it in one sector of 200Gb for backing up my system, and the other 800Gb for all my media files. All done in 3 hours. I read a review here where someone said it took 12 hours to re-format??? Weird. I can't imagine why - he must have a very slow pc, or did something wrong.
I was a little worried about it being fanless, but I've had it running for several hours now and it's not even warm, (apart from it's natural rubbery warmth)!!! Oh, and it's TOTALLY silent. Amazing! Data transfer rate is fast - better than I expected from USB.
The supplied software wasn't any use to me, so I got rid of it. However, I did go onto Freecom's website and downloaded their pc backup software. Very user friendly and very efficient.
One word of caution - and a real criticism - the USB cable is only 23 inches long!! That is SO TIGHT of Freecom when you are paying good money for what is a high quality product. Cheap sods!!! The drive looks cool enough to have it on your desktop, but I have to have it hidden away sitting on top of my tower under the desk. Not at all impressed with that. Oh yes, and despite what all the descriptions say, there is NO light on this drive to tell you it's on or working!! Not a big deal, but misleading. No on/off switch either, but I don't care cos I always turn my system off at the mains when it's not being used.
So far, I'd highly recommend this drive. I may come back in 3 months and update this, but right now I'm seriously thinking of getting another!! Delighted.
Oh, and thanks Amazon. Usual fantastic delivery.
PROMISED UPDATE!! I've been running this drive for weeks now and am absolutely delighted with it. My PC has a 320Gb hard drive which is partioned for Operating System/Data, and as I mentioned earlier, I partitioned this one too. I can find no difference in speed between working with my internal drive or this one!! I've actually got to the point where I now use this drive for all my photoshop and graphics work. Video files and music play back smoothly, picture files open instantly and I am so impressed. (Mind you, I do have 3 gig of RAM and a very fast processor and video card, but this performance is way better than any external drive I've owned before). It is totally silent - I've never heard a sound from it - and no matter how hard I work it, it stays cool. Tonight I was burning DVD's from this drive while doing some work from my internal drive and everything worked beautifully.
I honestly can't understand some of the negatives posted here about this drive. I can only assume that those users are doing something wrong. I would recommend this drive with 10 stars if I could, and I will certainly be buying another for an emergency back up. Just one correction to my first post - don't bother with Freecom's back up software - it turned out to be rubbish!! Get Norton Ghost. Perfection. (Probably the ONLY Norton product that is any use at all)!!!!!! :)
All the best folks.
Excellent Freecom Hard Drive September 5, 2009
S. Martin
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I got the 1TB drive to back up all my files and have to say it is excellent. This is the third drive I have bought from Freecom (one for work and the other for everyday use) and I have never been disappointed on any occasion. I have went for reliability and after checking all the reviews on this product felt that this was the perfect choice for me. I highly recommend this drive to anyone, you won't regret it.
even quieter than the aluminum 1TB version I bought a year ago September 1, 2009
Jonathan Payne (Atherton, CA United States)
66 out of 68 found this review helpful
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...
Best external hard drive I have owned January 20, 2010
S. E. Parnell (Norwich, Norfolk United Kingdom)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This little drive is robust and un-obtrusive. It operates almost silently.
I have no hesitation recommending this drive and will probably buy another soon.
If you'r on a PC reformat to NTFC format so that it will handle large files.
If you want to share files between PC and MAC leave it formatted as FAT32.
No Problems so Far August 5, 2009
Mr. M. Barker (Dorset, England)
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
Been using this hard drive for just over 1 month. Opened the box, plugged it into the back of my desktop via the USB cable, switched it on and started backing up my files using Norton Ghost. No problems so far with the hard drive (can't say the same for Norton Ghost sadly).
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