14 DAY TRIAL // Not long after it unveiled the 'wallet' portable hard drives, Verbatim is displaying a different sort of practicality, which is not as uncommon as leather-bound storage units, by supplying European countries with a set of flash drives that have hardware-based encryption to brag about.
Encryption does one thing, namely prevent unrecognized access to stored data unless a certain condition or set of conditions is met, usually a password or other type of recognition.
The need for such technologies emerged as soon as authorities, and those especially concerned with their intellectual property, started to use portable storage devices, back in the early days of this market segment.
Verbatim's Secure 'n' Go is one of the latest lines of USB flash drives that the company outfitted with 256-bit AES Hardware-based encryption.
This encryption relies on the input of a mandatory password, thus making sure that the mere act of plugging said flash drive inside a PC's USB port doesn't just make all files accessible right away.
Verbatim even installed a rather radical security feature. When the password is introduced wrong 20 times in a row, the technology erases all the data on the drive.
Granted, one will have to be careful to have copies of the files stored elsewhere, since particularly malicious people may just decide to insert a wrong password on purpose, as an act of sabotage.
As for actual specifications, the Secure 'n' Go measures 58 (L) x 22 (D) x 10.8 (D) mm, communicates via the USB 2.0 interface and has read/write speeds of 14MB/s and 8MB/s, respectively.
Finally, the newcomers boast capacities of 4GB, 8GB and 16GB, each priced at 29 Euro, 58 Euro and 99 Euro, respectively. Every model is backed up by a two-year warranty.
“No-one likes the thought of storing or archiving sensitive data that can be accessed by unapproved people,” the official press release states.
“With its new Secure ‘n’ Go USB Drive, Verbatim is addressing the increasing need of private users for total control of their portable data.”