Freecom 56068 3TB Quattro eSATA/FireWire800/USB 3.0 3.5 Inch External Hard Drive

Title : Freecom 56068 3TB Quattro eSATA/FireWire800/USB 3.0 3.5 Inch External Hard Drive
ASIN : B004Z612S4
Description : Freecom Hard Drive Quattro 30 3TB 56068 Storage External Hard Drives
Features :

• FireWire 400, FireWire 800, USB 3.0, eSATA
• 1 year warranty

List Price : £186.99
Price : £148.48
Saved Price : £38.51

category: Products
brand: Freecom
Item Page Detail URL : link
Rating : 4.3
Review : A silent, fast drive with lots of connection options, however perhaps expensive if you can't use the fastest
There are a great many external hard drives on the market and many have USB 2 interfaces. this is fine if you are using them to store photos, mp3s etc but not so great if you have a lot of data - such as holiday videos - to move around. USB 2 is just too slow.

Freecom make this drive in several capacities, 500GB 1,2 and 3 TB. This review is for the 2 TB drive.

At 2TB(ish see below) this drive is near the top end of those currently (as of May 2012) available and has a surprising number of connection options: USB 3, eSATA, Firewire 800 (two ports) and Firewire 400. You can daisy chain firewire devices together so the addition of a 2nd 800 port is a nice touch.

The drive comes with all the cables you could possibly need to connect it, although the USB 3 one is rather short, perhaps this is normal - I'm not sure, so you'll need to site the drive close to your computer for USB 3.

Although it states it's a 2 TB drive, you actually get 1.8 TB once...