Comments on: Maxtor Black-Armor; Some Serious Data Protection

By: Don Wyzlic (WC)

Don Wyzlic (WC) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:53:31 +0000

I have been using this drive for a couple of years now, mostly at work. I paused here, at this site, during my search for an ESATA/USB version of the same (no luck). I thought to comment on MAC usage… my laptop, a MAC, is dual bootable. When I need to access files from the MAC partition, I first boot into Windows, unlock the drive, and restart into the MAC OS. During restart the Black Armor doesn’t lock as power is never interrupted. Once the restart is complete, I am able to access files from this drive, as if it were any other external USB drive, from the MAC OS. I know it doesn’t help much, but it helps me. WC

By: LJR

LJR — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:46:02 +0000

Try and understand that just adding an eSata connector is NOT going to speed up the computer inside this unit. That computer is saturated with the processing demands of encryption and decryption. Sure you can have the faster connector but fat lotta good it's gonna do. Same for firewire. You guys without any technical background should really just stay out of the deep water.

By: PJA

PJA — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:49:37 +0000

Good drive – but somewhat useless in emergency. Scenario: you have it stored in a safe place because its your backup "safe" drive. Your home is destoyed due to a fire or natural disaster and you have to live in a hotel for a week or so. In the meantime you retrieve your drive so you can get at your important docs – well here's the problem. You are using the hotels "business center" computer – you plug the drive in and your stuck because you need to be logged in as a "administrator" in order to enter your password. Bad news! I am able to use a thumb drive that I password protect as well as a regular 80 gig usb drive password protected without needing to be logged on as a admin.