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]