FireWire Hard Drive 500GB Mac

Multi award winning 500GB FireWire hard drive. Includes fanless design, FW800 Converter, Formatted as HFS+ and 2 Years Warranty

• Award Winning Aluminium Design
• Pre Formatted as HFS+ for use with Apples Time Machine
• Fast FireWire 400 Connection
• LED Capacity Indicator
• 2 Year Warranty and Unlimited Support
  

Today's world is all about Gigabytes. Programs and data take up more and more storage space. The need for installing an extra hard drive on your PC or Mac is more present than ever. Opening your computer case and installing an internal hard drive can be a difficult job. So why not take the easy route? Freecom offers you the perfect storage upgrade for your computer: no-nonsense external hard drive in a stylish new enclosure. No need to open your computer; just plug the Hard Drive into the FireWire 400 port of your MAC and you instantly have a substantial increase in storage space. The Hard Drive is pre-formatted as HFS+ for use with Time Machine, so you're ready to use your drive seconds after connecting it to your Mac.

Interface: FireWire 400 x 2 (FireWire 800 convertor included)

Hard drive type 3.5", low noise, low power consumption

Performance Average seek time: > 9 ms

Track to Track seek time: 0.8 ms

Average Latency: 4.2 ms

Rotational Speed: 7200 rpm

Hard drive Buffer Size: min. 8MB

Data transfer speed over FireWire 400 mbps

Weight: 1200 gr. / 42.3 Ounce

Dimensions: 20 x 11,5 x 4 cm / 7.9 x 4.5 x 1.6 inch

MTBF: 50,000 P.O.H.

Environmental specifications Operating temperature: 5C / 60C

Storage temperature: -20C / 80C

Minimum system requirements MAC: PowerPC G3/G4/G5, Power Book G3/G4 or Intel Mac, 256MB RAM or higher,
CD-ROM drive, available FireWire 400 port, Mac OS X v10.3 or higher
PC: Intel Pentium-III / AMD Duron 900MHz or higher, 256MB RAM (Vista; 512MB)
CD-ROM drive, available FireWire 400 port. Windows 2000/XP/Vista

 Please note:
This drive is Mac HFS+ pre-formatted.
• For use with Windows only, the drive must be reformatted to NTFS or FAT-32 fi le
system.
• For use with both Mac and Windows, the drive must be reformatted to FAT-32 fi le
system.
Reformatting is done via your operating system.