I thought that a freecom secure drive with chip protection could be an elegant device for transporting data securely. All seemed to work well. Only when I transported Ms Office files from my work (mostly Ms Access) I could not read the files at home because they were read protected. Up till now I did not receive useful advise from the help desk.

I have an ageing laptop with only 6gb of hard drive space. I wanted more space without having to replace the whole unit. Another option was to fit a bigger manufacturers hard drive, but this was costed at around £200 for a 30 - 40 gb.

In the end the Freecom 80GB External Hard Drive was sourced via the internet for just over £100, an absolute bargain. I use it daily and would recommend it to anyone.