Although I don’t really know what to report about hard drives, I once made an exception to my testing guidelines and still tested a hard drive. The Freecom Hard Drive Sq 2TB. You can store a huge amount of data on that.
Appearance
You would think that a hard disk is just a hard disk. That is of course not the case. I know them in many different shapes and sizes. For example, there are external hard drives that you can easily put in your jacket pocket, with which you will not succeed. The Freecom Mobile Drive Sq was produced for this. This Hard Drive Sq is quite large, grayish and square. You must also attach a power adapter to it. At the front is a round power button, which gives light, white happily, not blue like many hardware manufacturers do today.
What can the Hard Drive Sq do?
What is the use of this specific disc? I myself found it very useful as a backup HDD for my NAS. I just throw in two abbreviations here, I get that, HDD means Hard Disk Drive and NAS is Network Attached Storage (a box with a number of disks in it with a modified operating system on it, so you can do a bit of cool things with it, such as download, a kind of mini-computer). So it’s just a matter of getting started and he does it.
What he is good for, according to the packaging, is for recording options with a television that supports that. Mine unfortunately does not support it. My TV could read files from the hard disk. But there are televisions that support it because you don’t always use a set-top box from your provider. And you can also hang it on your desktop PC as an external hard drive, for extra storage or for backups.
Performance
I confess that I have very little understanding of hard drive benchmarks. I had the reading and writing speed tested by a program called Crystal DiskMark. But since I have not yet tested other hard drives, I have no idea whether the numbers are good. Amateur! Right. I tested it on a USB2.0 port. I don’t have a USB3.0 port unfortunately. The theoretical speed of USB2.0 is 480Mbit, which is 60MB / s. As you can see in the picture below, it does not matter on the tested packages. Usually that is also true, the hardware can hinder the flow of the packages, I understand, so the theory is always more positive than practice. According to Freecom, the hard disk should theoretically be able to transport packets (5000Mbit) with 625MB / s over USB3.0. For the difference between MB / s and Mbit you can read this blog post about it. But USB3.
To buy?
This external hard drive is available from 119 euros for 1TB. I personally find it a bit pricey, if you look at what an average USB3.0 external hard disk for desktop with 1TB costs, but for the housing you have to spend something ;-). It is quite good next to all your other male aluminum devices and is less plastic than other hard drives.
If you want to buy it, you can do this at: Bol.com (1TB, 3TB), Misco (1TB), Salland.eu (1TB, 2TB, 3TB) and Centralpoint (1TB, 2TB, 3TB).
