Freecom
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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]
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 Freecom FSG-3 | |
| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Electronics |
| Founded | 1989 |
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| Headquarters | , Germany |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Computer hardware |
| Owner | Verbatim (100%) |
| Parent | Verbatim |
| Website | www |
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]
