While most of us will never store valuable documents, let alone "Top Secret" documents, on an
external drive, a lot of people however do use external storage for storing pretty important files. While in the grand scheme of things you personal diary, or favourite "pictures" you have collected off the Internet are not all that life and death important, you still don't want them ending up in the wrong hands. For many people, this means their
portable drive needs to be not only robust, secure but also easy to use. We don't want to mess around with complex software or anything more complex than a (at most) combination lock yet want it to be safe from (at the very least) script kiddies.
Luckily, Data Locker makes some pretty nifty external drives that fit all three main criteria: easy to use, secure and durable. Their latest model, the
Data Locker DL3 not only sports a touch screen with randomised number layout for locking and unlocking the DL3 (so you can not only enter your password directly on the device itself but that thieves cant just dust it for prints and then guess at it) and hardware based encryption/decryption (AES 256-bit XTS built into the device) but also boasts a
USB 3.0 interface. This in combination of sizes raging from (SSD) 128GB to 1TB (HDD) should make it very tempting to road warriors and paranoid users alike. With that being said, expect all that power and ease of use to cost as the Data Locker DL3 starting price is $299, making it a tad on the pricey side. Expect to be able to buy one of these high tech bad boys starting in March.
Your Very Own PlayBoy Collection on a USB Hard Drive
By Anthony Garland on January 13th, 2011
