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1. #LENOVO THINKPAD USB SECURE HARD DRIVE DRIVERS#
2. #LENOVO THINKPAD USB SECURE HARD DRIVE FULL#
3. #LENOVO THINKPAD USB SECURE HARD DRIVE PORTABLE#
4. #LENOVO THINKPAD USB SECURE HARD DRIVE PRO#
5. #LENOVO THINKPAD USB SECURE HARD DRIVE PASSWORD#

No doubt, for many it's money well spent. As I write this, the 160GB model was selling for between $140 and $180. The drive comes in 160GB and 320GB capacities and you pay a price premium for the security. What is "ThinkPad" doing there? It may give people the impression that the drive is only for use with ThinkPad laptop computers, when the reality is exactly the opposite. The worst thing about this drive seems to be the name.

#LENOVO THINKPAD USB SECURE HARD DRIVE PASSWORD#

For good luck, you might want to make a password consisting of 16 totally random digits and store it in a safe place. I hope my accountant uses one.Īfraid of forgetting the password? The drive supports 10 different passwords. If you deal with clients, and need to keep their files secure, the drive screams security. There is no missing the fact that it has big numbered buttons on the top for entering a password (the review at Trusted Reviews offers a lot of images of the drive). The final thing that the ThinkPad USB Secure Hard Drive has going for it is that it looks secure. And, although they are larger than USB flash drives, an external 2.5 inch hard drive is probably small enough that it never has to leave your side. When traveling, there are places that a relatively small 2.5 inch external hard disk can go that a laptop computer can not. Keeping sensitive files on an external hard disk has other advantages.

#LENOVO THINKPAD USB SECURE HARD DRIVE FULL#

Software running on the computer would not know or care about the full disk encryption and vise versa. TrueCrypt users, such as myself, can continue working with encrypted volumes just like we've always done. Or, folders could be encrypted using an operating system feature. For example, individual files could be password protected using the software that processes the file (think Word or Excel). Re-locking the drive, however, is very simple - just unplug it.Īnother benefit of the drive security being totally self-contained is that it does not preclude additional software security. You wouldn't want to connect a ThinkPad USB Secure Hard Drive to a computer and walk away for lunch.

#LENOVO THINKPAD USB SECURE HARD DRIVE PRO#

First is size: although no giant, devices like the PC Pro Recommended Western Digital My Passport Elite are more compact in every dimension.The full disk encryption only protects things until a password is entered.

#LENOVO THINKPAD USB SECURE HARD DRIVE PORTABLE#

There are drawbacks to the Secure Hard Drive compared to normal portable drives. The only potential drawback to carrying it everywhere is that you may find you need to use the bundled USB power cable, though we found it worked perfectly well using the integrated USB cable – this tucks neatly into the side of the drive when in transit.

#LENOVO THINKPAD USB SECURE HARD DRIVE DRIVERS#

If Lenovo could have matched the Secure Hard Drive’s electronics with an eSATA interface, we suspect it would have broken all records.Īt least USB ensures the Secure Hard Drive is universally compatible, and even better it doesn’t require any drivers to work with either Windows XP or Vista. To put that into perspective, that’s faster than some FireWire-equipped external hard disks we’ve tested. A 50MB file took 2.2 seconds to read and 2 seconds to write, a 650MB file 23 seconds and 26 seconds respectively. It’s again quick – albeit not table-topping – when reading and writing large files. Although it’s unusual for a drive to write contents quicker than to read them, we put this down to the encryption and de-encryption process. In fact, when reading and writing 100MB of small files, the ThinkPad Secure Hard Drive turned out to be the fastest USB portable disk we’ve seen – its time of 6.4 seconds to read and 4.3 seconds to write is only beaten by eSATA devices. With encryption automatically applied to data as it’s written and read from the device, we expected its performance to suffer. By default, you press 1-2-3-4-5-6 and then the Green padlock key to gain access to the drive’s contents, but you can change the password to anything you like right up to a 24-key string.įor example, you could devise a variation of the letters found on a phone keypad and use a memorable phrase, and – courtesy of the built-in 128-bit AES encryption – there’s no way anyone will be able to access your data. The only way you can get data on or off this drive is to enter a password.