Freecom Trots Out World's Thinnest Mobile Hard Drive
Freecom Trots Out World's Thinnest Mobile Hard Drive
Posted 01/15/2011 at 7:23am
| by Pulkit Chandna
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From the company that gave the world its first external USB 3.0 drive comes another unprecedented product. The 10mm thick Mobile Drive Mg is the world’s thinnest mobile hard drive. The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 drive offers 320GB of storage and data transfer speeds of up to 130MB/s inside a sturdy magnesium enclosure for the reasonable price of $89.99. However, not everything about the drive is great.
The Mobile Drive Mg’s biggest problem is that it is a Mac-formatted drive. Many of you will probably agree that Freecom has erred by restricting this petite drive to Mac users alone. However, fortunately for PC lovers who also have something resembling a Mac buried deep inside their basement, there are apps like MacDrive and HFSExplorer for using Mac-formatted drives with a PC.
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nickfitz582
January 15, 2011 at 10:15pm
Correct me if I'm wrong... but I don't even believe Macs support USB 3.0 do they? Kinda seems like a weird decision lol
Pinkyblister
January 15, 2011 at 7:48pm
Western Digital goofed and sent me a Mac external drive to replace my defective Windows drive. I simply reformatted it-no problem. Much more simple than using a program. I agree with the other posters-reformat!
Torcflaed
January 15, 2011 at 4:35pm
I agree, I'd like to know why someone should not simply reformat the drive?
DogPatch1149
January 15, 2011 at 11:48am
Tell me why I would use something like MacDrive or HFSExplorer, when I can just reformat the damned thing to NTFS and be done with it?
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