Our New Toy - Freecom Mobile Hard Drive

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Mai's dad came home last night from his 2-month job contract and he brought us our new toy. Well, not actually a toy but our new mobile hard drive that we've been waiting for.
It's a Freecom Tough Drive with 320GB disk space. We badly need a mobile hard drive 'coz we own a total of 4 computers at home (2 laptops, 2 desktops) and we also have 11 computers here at our cafe. We need it to backup important files and most especially installers. This will be extremely useful in our cafe when we do our bi-weekly maintenance. Plus, we need it so we can share files to all the computers at home. We now do all our downloading here in the cafe since we've got some extra bandwidth to enjoy *wink*.

If you want to see the specs of this mobile HDD, click here.

What I love about this HDD is it's slim and shock-proof... well, at least that's how Freecom is advertising this particular HDD. They even said that it can withstand falling from 2 meters. Hmmm... I'm really tempted to try it out but not just yet. Hehehe. Unintentionally, I know we'll see how durable this is. LOLz.

Another thing that I like about this HDD is it has a built-in password protection tool. The first time you use it, it will run the password setup wizard. And from then on, everytime you use it, you'll be prompted for the password. One way to ensure that your files are secure.

I like the design, alright, but I just don't like how they integrated the USB 2.0 cable. What if we "accidentally" damage or cut the USB cable with very sharp scissors? Okay, kidding aside, that's one of my concerns. What if it gets damaged? How can we freaking replace it when this was bought outside the PH and there's no support or place here that supports it (redundant ba)?

Well, I guess we just have to be extra careful when using it. The integrated USB cable can be connected to a laptop only 'coz it's, well, integrated. Anyway, the package includes another USB cable so we can easily plug it in to our desktops without having to figure out a way to ensure it's not hanging from the USB port.

Now, my only problem is to get it working here on my laptop. The freaking software it includes doesn't run well on my computer. Need to find an updated USB 2.0 driver for my laptop, then.

Update: Alright, I got this ToughDrive working on my laptop. All I did was disable AutoPlay using TweakUI for Windows XP. It worked like a charm.

If you're having problems with your computer freezing or crashing everytime you insert your external HDD, disable Auto Play and if that doesn't work, make sure there are no firewalls or file protection software running (like ESET).