Super Talent Launches Password Protected USB 3.0 Flash Drive
Super Talent Launches Password Protected USB 3.0 Flash Drive
Posted 09/23/2011 at 1:38pm
| by Paul Lilly
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Super Talent has come up with a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 thumb drive the company claims is fast, secure, and malware resistant. The new USB 3.0 DataGuardian is fast because, well, it's built to take advantage of USB 3.0; it's secure because it requires a password to access data stored on the device; and it's supposedly impervious to all (not some) auto-run malware attacks.
There's no software to install when using the DataGuardian. An application stored in the drive's firmware launches automatically when you plug it in, at which point you enter in your password and enjoy unfettered access to your data. Once you yank the DataGuardian out of the USB port, the drive is once again secure.
On the performance side, Super Talent says the DataGuardian is capable of up to 85MB/s read and up to 40MB/s write speeds via USB 3.0. If you pop it into a USB 2.0 port, it will shuttle files back and forth at up to 37MB/s (read) and up to 27MB/s (write).
The DataGuardian will begin shipping on October 17, 2011. It will cost $24 for the 8GB version, with 16GB and 32GB capacities also available.
Image Credit: Super Talent
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terracide
September 23, 2011 at 9:34pm
I wonder if this device does ready boost on 7 or vista better than USB 2.0 devices. My experience playing with readyboost was pretty dismal, did get some occasional slight speed increases but usually degraded performance overall.
Danno25002
September 23, 2011 at 3:39pm
This is a pretty good idea (assuming all manufacturers follow suit and go to the "impervious to auto-run"). I work in a hospital health system's IT department with 1200+ workstations. I can't tell you how many viruses that use auto-run that I have had to get rid of that came from thumb drives. So, many so that we have disabled auto-run via regedit on all workstations in the health system. A huge pain in butt for those that aren't that savvy and need to install important applications from disc.
brettofamerica
September 24, 2011 at 10:29pm
Didn't know if you knew this but a good way to protect YOUR flash drive from those pesky auto-run viruses is to create a folder called autorun.inf
When you do that, the virus gets copied over to your flash drive but it can't make the autorun.inf file that it needs to run on other computers!
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