Freecom Technologies GmbH 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 Verbatim in 2009.[4]
In 2009 the company announced one of the first commercially available USB 3.0 external hard drives.[5][6]
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- itsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd. Announces Acquisition of Freecom B.V. Businesswire., retrieved 29 May 2020^
- Freecom outs first ever USB 3.0 hard drive pcworld, retrieved 29 May 2020^
- Alexandre Laurent. Un premier disque dur externe USB 3.0 chez Freecom Clubic.com, 2009-09-28, retrieved 2022-04-28^
- John E. Dunn. Freecom bought out by Verbatim Network World, 2009-09-03, retrieved 2020-01-22^
- Freecom Outs World's Smallest 3.5" Ext. HDD Case HotHardware, 2009-05-17, retrieved 2025-09-20^
- Freecom unveils first USB 3.0 External HDD TechRadar, 2009-09-24, retrieved 2025-09-20^