Freecom 56057 1TB Tough Drive USB 3.0 2.5 inch External Hard Drive

Well-made drive. Almost perfect.
The drive's main enclosure has a velvety-smooth rubbery-plastic finish, and has a black plastic section at the end which houses the in-built plug lead. There are no power or USB secondary sockets. The lead 'hinges' courtesy of its own flexible material, so I don't feel comfortable bending it too much. So, unless the drive is on your desk next to your PC's USB socket, you're sure to end up needing a USB extension lead. In the lead's closed position, it's held in place firmly by friction and by a magnet that grips the metal USB 'A' plug. The light-blue status LED is solid-ON when nothing's happening, and phases on/off smoothly when there's data transfer. On that front, it's totally silent in operation.
The drive takes 36 seconds to appear on my USB2 laptop, and copying from internal drive via USB2 runs at 14.6 MegaBytes/s (I copied a single 500 MB file). Also, it works fine on my little USB-to-TV media player. I have an older USB1 PC with a USB2 PCI card installed and, on this, the...

Freecom 56057 1TB Tough Drive USB 3.0 2.5 inch External Hard Drive

well built
i ve have and older one of these (320 gig)and another 2 of this model. they are very well built. drop resistant and also seem dust and water resistant as well. ive taken all three of them to afghan many times, more dust then you can imagine, wet weather and the heat didnt effect these in the least. unlike my laptop and other drives. now the freecom ones are all i use.

Freecom 56057 1TB Tough Drive USB 3.0 2.5 inch External Hard Drive

Good with just minor concern
I have used this hard drive for 6 months. It still works no flows here :). I have a concern about the build in cable it is great to have this but it would be nice if was longer and more flexible, now i need to carry additional cable to be sure I can fit the hard drive on any computer. But this is just a minor issue. Transfer rates are good, I guess for the price this drive rocks :).

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