Storage World

How many times have you lent a USB flash drive to a friend or business colleague and wondered to yourself: “Wow, I hope there’s nothing on there that I don’t want seen.” Now, this probably wasn’t because you necessarily had anything incriminating on there, but more likely it was just the feeling that you were giving someone else access to, in the immortal words of George Carlin, “your stuff.” Let’s face it people, sometimes you simply have to lock up your stuff.

Corsair has an answer to this problem ol’ George prophesied for those of us firmly entrenched in the information age. The Corsair Flash Padlock USB drive will hold up to two gigs of your stuff and let you lock it down by entering a PIN on its integrated 5-button keypad. Of course, a flash drive with this capability will attract corporate and legal types, but casual users need quick, secure storage media, too.

With a built-in security processor, the Flash Padlock offers self-contained, hardware-based encryption for any PIN you enter into the drive. This technology is significantly more secure than preinstalled software-based encryption apps found on other flash drives, because it requires no interaction with the host computer or any software.

Operating the Flash Padlock is easy. If you don’t create a PIN, the drive operates and responds to the OS like any other flash drive. However, once you create a PIN, the drive isn’t even visible to the OS. To unlock the drive, simply enter your PIN, and the drive will be accessible for 15 seconds; once you plug it in, it will remain unlocked in the system indefinitely. When you remove the drive, it will lock itself again in 15 seconds. In the event you lose your PIN and lock yourself out of the drive, Corsair offers a Flash Padlock PIN registration service for free. Read/write performance was uninspiring, but pbviously that’s not the Flash Padlock’s focus. Want to secure that stuff? Corsair’s Flash Padlock has you covered.

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