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Freecom External Network HDD 500GB USB2.0 LAN NAS Drive | 
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| Category: CE
Buy New: £79.75
New (10) Used (1) from £58.86
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 1134
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Hard Drive Size: 500
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: 29013
Model: 29013
EAN: 4021801290137
ASIN: B000PC2FQU
Release Date: July 22, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Connection keeps on dropping out October 15, 2008
R. Cairns (UK)
All was well at first, then after a day or two the connection started to drop out. It started as an occasional thing then it got more frequent, until now, several weeks after purchase, it drops out many times a day and is therefore practically unusable. The same thing happens no matter which PC is used to access the device. To rescue our data I connected the drive up to a PC using the Freecom's USB connection. It didn't work. All that happened was that it caused the PC to reboot! This was tried 3 times with different USB leads, all with the same result. We regularly use USB hard drives to backup our PCs and have never had a problem. There is something seriously wrong with this unit.
 Mac users and alike. September 16, 2008
Ninnik (UK)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have a MAC Notebook. I read all the reviews on this item and thought why not it's entry level and enough space for me. The NAS Drive was picked up straight away by my Mac. The WEB based interface is good and easy to use. However heres the bad news, through extensive searching the forums I have come to the conclusion that MAC does not support NAS. I tried for 4 days solid and nearly a devorce to try and connect the drive to Mac Airport and Time Machine. There is a command you can type into Terminal to tell Mac to recognise the Nas Drive as it is unsupported. Mac can see the drive but still refuses to do anything with it and when it does decide to recognise it, it fails at the last hurdle. Don't take my word for it, do the research, that is my recommendation, especially if you are a MAC user!!
 Very good product August 7, 2008
Anon
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you are looking for a reliable external hard drive to back up your files then this does the job perfectly. Yes you need to format the Hard drive from FAT32 to NTFS but this is really very simple (right click on the drive icon and select format). If you are trying to access it accross a network im not to sure about that but if its just for backing up your home files then this is ideal.
I have had mine for almost two years and it has proved to be 100% reliable, quiet and has fast read write speeds across the USB2 connection.
Great drive - simple and well made June 22, 2008
R.B. (UK)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I couldn't find any other network attached drive for a similar price. I was looking for something to back my PC up to and have hidden this away in a cupboard attached to a Zytel 'home plug' unit to provide the network. The unit is nicely made and quiet and comes with everything you need including network and USB leads.
The bundled backup software seems pretty good and can be set to backup files as soon as they've been created/changed. It can also save multiple revisions of files. Since the file backup is just a copy of the files it's simple to retrieve them and you can of course just plug the drive into any computer with the USB lead.
I didn't have any problem setting it up on the network, it obtained an IP address that the bundled software then finds. Web interface allows changes of IP address and setting up of shares. There's not any security on the shares, which is a shame, but not really an issue for my purposes. It can also act as an FTP server (where you can configure users), but I haven't tried this.
Overall, very happy with it.
Poor support April 6, 2008
I. A. Lythgoe (Leeds)
3 out of 14 found this review helpful
Beware of buying this if you don't know much about compuet networks. I set my hard drive up to wrok off my wireless router and for a month this worked fine. But the minute it started to go wrong I was left to my own devices my a disinterested and unhelpful freecom customer support. I have ended up paying for a compuetr expert to come to my home to set up the whole system. If things like 'IP addresses' mean little to you avoid this product
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