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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 and Managing Director is Axel Lucassen. It is the first company to release an external hard drive to USB 3.02 standards.
The company was founded in 1989 and sold to Mitsubishi Chemical / Verbatim in 2009.
References
- "itsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd. Announces Acquisition of Freecom B.V." Businesswire. Businesswire. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
- "Freecom outs first ever USB 3.0 hard drive". pcworld. pcworld. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
- Laurent, Alexandre (2009-09-28). "Un premier disque dur externe USB 3.0 chez Freecom". Clubic.com (in French). Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- Dunn, John E. (2009-09-03). "Freecom bought out by Verbatim". Network World. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
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