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Hello, you're not going to find a good SSD over 200GB's for under $100.00. The cheapest is the Kingston V300 240GB but does not offer any encryption. You will want to focus on the Intel's and Samsung's for good encryption 🙂
 
You are going to be paying much more than $90, as was stated.
Are you looking for hardware encryption, or software?

As for reliable...as I keep saying in these kinds of threads, the only way to have reliability is if you keep backups. That is it, there is no way to know when the SSD (or HD for that matter) when they will fail.
 
I think that the M500 and M550 drives have hardware encryption, if you can still find them.

Generally, though, to utilize the hardware encryption, requires BIOS support for ATA Password, and most desktop boards, other than Intel's corporate-oriented ones with the "Q" chipsets, don't have that.
 
What OS are you running? If you have Windows 8 Pro you could use the built-in eDrive hardware encryption as long as the rest of your system meets the requirements.
 
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As for the Toshiba, it's quite sketchy, as the manufacturer doesn't provide much info. I.e. no info on encryption, nor hour rating, etc.. They both excel at performance though. I'm tempted to just say no to the Vertex, but I'm not sure about the Toshiba - perhaps someone else has more info on it?
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You mean a page like this with links to their entire current product range, with separate category for Self Encrypting Drives, product pages with detailed technical specs and links toward product documents like:

Nope, Toshiba doesn't have anything like that, they're a bit sketchy. But what did you expect, it's not like they invented FLASH memory and are currently producing premium grade NAND cells 🙂

PS: sry, I couldn't resist, you probably got to a dead-end link in their website which somehow rates very high with google when searching for toshiba ssd.
 
When buying a ssd look hard at the support and warranty. This is why I recommend intel and corsair because with either of them you can get immediate support and rma. Corsair is the easier of the two these days to rma a product.
 
AFAIK, you need a Q series chipset for the ATA password function to be supported. Sucks the mainstream Z/H/B lack this useful feature.

But you can use eDrive which has hardware support for encryption, as has been noted ^.
 
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Suppose regular people don't need it. Makes sense for cutting costs, but still sucks.

Anyway, how would this eDrive feature work with hardware encryption? Would it use the disk's encryption, but through software? When would I enter the password? Before booting up? Or could I not use it with Windows partition? Because if it boots up Windows, that is already accessing files without protection. I suppose it's not that important if it's just Windows files exclusively, but anyway, how does it work exactly?
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eDrive uses the drive's built-in hardware encryption, but it's managed through software (i.e. more settings to play around with etc, whereas ATA password has none). If using eDrive with a boot partition the password must be entered before the OS loads.

In short, eDrive is based on TCG Opal 2.0 standard, which is as safe as it gets when it comes to client-level encryption. To use eDrive, you must have a UEFI install of Windows 8 Pro and the motherboard needs to support UEFI 2.3.1 or newer.

If you system doesn't meet those requirements, you could buy e.g. Wave EMBASSY Security Center for $40 that supports TCG Opal 2.0 encryption on a variety of platforms.
 
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