I was interested to read of LaCie's new external hard drive that boasted "three levels of data protection." I was imagining something along the lines of Apple's new Time Machine, with its effortless backup of all new and changed data on a second hard drive. With a hard drive failing every year in our office, I am always looking for an effortless backup system.
But reading the details, I was disappointed. The new LaCie drive has triple protection in areas I don't care about:
- access locked by fingerprint scanning for up to five registered users.
- firmware prevents access to the data when the drive is removed and plugged into a another computer.
- chain lock allows it to be bolted to a table.
Three ways to prevent people from taking my data, but no protection against the drive itself taking my data. US$300 for 500GB.
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