Freecom

Freecom is a German manufacturer of computer peripherals. Its products include USB hard disks (where the actual hard drive is manufactured by Samsung and others), USB flash drives, USB DVB-T television receivers and a data recovery service. The original President and CEO was Dick C. Hoogerdijk[1] and Managing Director is Axel Lucassen.[2] It is the first company to release an external hard drive to USB 3.02 standards.[3]

The company was founded in 1989 and sold to Mitsubishi Chemical / Verbatim in 2009.[4]

References

  1. ^ "itsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd. Announces Acquisition of Freecom B.V." Businesswire. Businesswire. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Freecom outs first ever USB 3.0 hard drive". pcworld. pcworld. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  3. ^ Laurent, Alexandre (2009-09-28). "Un premier disque dur externe USB 3.0 chez Freecom". Clubic.com (in French). Retrieved 2022-04-28.
  4. ^ Dunn, John E. (2009-09-03). "Freecom bought out by Verbatim". Network World. Retrieved 2020-01-22.


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