The Future of Physical Hard Drive Security

Posted by gsh on Sep 18, 2006 8:53 AM EDT
CoolTechZone.com; By Gundeep Hora
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Earlier this month, LaCie revealed another one of its SAFE desktop hard drives with biometric fingerprint reader (scan to get access), internal drive lock (lock the drive inside the case), secure password protection (only authorized users can lock or unlock the drive) and external chain lock (securely and physically lock the drive in place).

To an average user, this much security is a little too much. Even though majority of us have critical financial and other personal information that we would like to prevent others from accessing, the internal and external chain locks are a bit too extreme. After all, what are the chances of someone breaking in and snatching away with the hard drive out of other potentially valuable items that the perpetrator could instead get a hold of?

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Disappointing article. timlinux 1 1,166 Sep 18, 2006 5:28 PM
"Security drives" Jack_ 0 1,407 Sep 18, 2006 10:06 AM

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