Hitachi Hard drive 250 GB

Advantages: 250GB capacity, 2 firewire port, 1 usb ports
Disadvantages: alittle bit expensive

...Hello again and welcome to Chan's new toys! Just had a box delieverd to my home 2 weeks ago which i hadn't ordered, someone at work had given me new hardware to help with a task I've got to do. How well people know me, give me new harware to play with and i'll do any work they want! Anyway, opening up my jiffy bag I find a box with Media Centre writen in big black letters. MY first thought is what on earth is a media centre??? The box seemed a bit small for a TV and DVD player, let alone surround sound, so i decided that putting on my glasses so i could focus on the box was probably a good idea. It turns out a media centre is a rather large USB and firewire hard drive, with a few extras thrown in to make it look special. What you get is a 250Gb drive, 2 firewire ports, 1 usb port to go to your machine and 2 usb ports to connect... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Very Reliable, Fast Transfer Speed
Disadvantages: quite heavy for a external Hard drive (not too heavy)

...Ive owned this product for just over a year now, its been very reliable unlike other external hard drives ive had in the past. Freecom are a good brand of Back-Up Devices, 250 Gb has proved to be more than enough space for what i needed to back up. All of my music, Films, PICTURES, Work Files all fit onto it with still more than 120 Gb Spared. The Transfer speed is also very fast. I also do alot of travelling, so i need the External Hard drive to transfer my files from place to place. And the Freecom Hard Drive has proved to be very durable whilst travelling with it for quite some time. I would recomend this to any person who needs a backup/storage device as you wont find a better product for value for money.... Read review

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Advantages: Quite cool good capacity
Disadvantages: Poor reliablity

...This product is a bit of a double edged sword. The down side is that my second one of these has just failed after returning my orgional to the supplier after a Harddrive failure, the same has just happened. the Drive is quite bulky, however this does not have much on an impact. The plus points. Everything you need comes in the box, power supply usb cables extra. Its is very stright forward to use, plug all the relavet cables in, switch it on and it is found as an external storage device easily. I have partitioned mine 50/50 with NTFS and FAT32, so i can keep very large work files and use it with my PS3. The formatting process was no different to any other Harddrive. It is relativly quite, runs fairly cool and generally gives good transfer speeds. there have never been any bad sectors on either drive, when i have run scandisk... Read review

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