Any Portable/External Hard Drive with Encryption/Password Protection?

[Deactivated] on 01/03/2015 - 16:05

I was wondering if there are some for sale that are at least 500GB and not a thumb drive and not too expensive?

Computing

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  • mskeggs on 01/03/2015 - 17:35

    I've been looking at these, but they are quite expensive. Might be worth it to you?
    http://www.amazon.com/Apricorn-Padlock-256-bit-External-A25-…

  • Davo1111 on 02/03/2015 - 01:22

    do you have admin rights to the computers?

  • [Deactivated] on 02/03/2015 - 09:38

    Thanks, I will look into both to decide which one to get.

  • morpheu on 05/03/2015 - 20:24
    +1

    that item above looks pricey, buy this case http://www.dx.com/p/cheerlink-hua001-su3-padlock-256aes-encr… from DX and add a spare laptop drive and you get the same 256bit AES hardware encryption security with USB 3.0 but for less, i bought one just waiting for delivery

    • mskeggs on 05/03/2015 - 22:00

      This is very interesting. Please post here a review once you. Receive the item.

      • morpheu on 06/03/2015 - 18:08

        sure but remember this is DX so delivery is anywhere from 3 weeks to 2 months!

  • [Deactivated] on 06/03/2015 - 08:20
    -1

    What happens if the AFP removes the hard drive from this enclosure and connect it to another PC, would they be able to read the hard drive?
    Another thing, I tried finding the website of this company 'Cheerlink' but could not find it, not even the manual, so beware could be just a cheap Chinese knock-off… but I'll wait for you review eagerly.

    • iridiumstem on 06/03/2015 - 08:44

      Are you a spy?

      Though from what I've heard from people in Korea that Korean police can recover data that most comercial programs wouldn't be able to do i.e. after zero-fill etc etc. If the government wants their hands on your data, you probably would need something above something comercial grade, though this is simply my opinion and I am no way competent enough to give you conclusive answers.

    • morpheu on 06/03/2015 - 17:05

      this is hardware encryption, everything including FAT is encrypted so if you remove drive it will be unreadable, however being consumer grade means even the almighty N S of A probably has a backdoor or hack of some kind, the companies that make these devices say if you forget your P/W even they can't help you but something tells me they just want to avoid getting sued for loss of data or to discourage crims from using their product

  • rygle on 08/03/2015 - 08:35

    Just get any hard drive and use third party software.

    If you're just mildly paranoid, you could try things like bitlocker, or various alternatives;
    http://www.alternativeto.net/software/windows-bitlocker/

    If you're feeling really paranoid, read this;

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption

    There are various tools there. Julian Assange (wikileaks) helped write rubberhose but it's now defunct.

    Never personally used any of this myself (though I could be just denying it!) but the theory of stuff like rubberhose seems solid.

  • [Deactivated] on 11/03/2015 - 15:22

    Long live the NSA and mass surveillance!

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