Freecom Mobile Drive CLS review
in External hard drives
Verdict
Technically it brings nothing new to the table, but if you place a high value on order and neatness it could be worth a look.
Review Date: 3 Sep 2010
Reviewed By: Darien Graham-Smith
Price when reviewed: £52 (£61 inc VAT)
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| Part Code | 35237 |
| Review Date | 3 Sep 2010 |
| Price ex VAT | £52 |
| Price inc VAT | £61 |
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| Specifications | |
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| Capacity | 250GB |
| Cost per gigabyte | 22.4p |
| Hard disk usable capacity | 232GB |
| Hard disk type | Mechanical |
| Performance tests | |
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| Write speed small files | 18.1MB/sec |
| Write speed large files | 29.7MB/sec |
From around the web
Whay I don't understand is why more people don't mirror their internal drives - its not as if adding a second drive for redundancy costs much.
Being paranoid, I tend to use mirrorsets even in my home systems, non-mirror stripesets (with checksum) for some systems and full-on mirrored stripesets where I can.
Then ghost/image it...
Then start taking backups..
And if you really want to be paranoid, run a VM (so you can a restorable mage) with the data held on another server/fc array.
So even at home level just buy a £40 driver and mirror your main drive(s) and then put in place a decent backup strategy.
Would use the "cloud" but home ADSL upload is just too slow.
Nice idea from Freecom but not worth it..
By MikeHellier on 5 Sep 2010 
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