Advantages: Gold-plated solution to destroy data. Wide range of deletion options. Disadvantages: Over-long user guide. Too many choices. Gutmann method takes 6 hours!
a non-systematic, random walk search on Amazon led me to ?Drive Erase Pro ? Total Privacy Protection?, with the promising tag-line, ?Erase Sensitive Data from your Hard Drive Permanently!? This was priced at £27.99, significantly in excess of its competitors, so I was expecting a premium and effective product.
The package duly arrived, a rather large box that in the end contained just an instruction booklet and two CDs. One was packaged in white, was coloured blue and called ?Drive Erase Privacy Protection?, being an installer for the Drive Erase Pro application and another application called Surf Secret (which I wasn?t interested in). The second CD looked like a nuclear detonation program, being packaged in bright red, coloured red and entitled ? ?Boot CD?. It contained the cheerful warning ?Using this disc will completely and permanently ...
Westocean 18.09.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Drive Erase Pro
This was bought to replace my old freecom 40gb drive. Once when using it on a desktops front usb port, i knocked it with my knee and it snapped the connector.
Due to this I thought I would go for a toughdrive and I have not been dissapointed. I use it weekly and keep it loose in my laptop bag with no real concern for its safety. No chance of the connector breaking here as its a sealed floppy rubbery affair! also there is a magnet on the clip so it wont become loose wherever you keep it.
I have used it on several pc's, laptops and servers without any issue. I often use it for my work on a server that will only have one or two USB ports and neither are in a good postion so I have to leave the drive hanging from the USB port and still no issues.
Never needed to use supplied software. ...
Advantages: Waterproof, Tamper Proof, Capacity, USB 2.0, Slim, Plug and Play Disadvantages: None
of the USB flash drives that I have and have currently been writing about lately have been roughly along the same lines up until we come to this one because this USB flash drives offers up a couple of features that most flash drives don't ever have on offer which is as follows:-
- Tamper Proof
Tamper proof basically allows the user to have the ability of putting a password on the flash drive which prevent anyone tampering with it or unauthorised access being a problem because for most people at some point or another you will be carrying some personal data on the flash drive and due to its size it can be extremely easy to lose so if it was lost then someone wouldn't be able to go through your personal files easily at will. To be able to use this feature a piece of software is included in the package which is called Iron Key Password Manager ...
