- Jul 17, 2010
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My friend wants a fast laptop with 500GB of external storage, as cheap as possible. We plan to buy a reasonable laptop with a 500GB HDD and then buy an SSD. The SSD will go into the laptop and the HDD which comes out will go into a 2.5" SATA > USB3 caddy.
He wants to protect the contents of the external HDD via a password or similar means. I know drives like the WD My Passport have encryption built in but as he wants to keep costs down, we won't be buying a dedicated external drive.
I do have experience with encryption but they have always been hardware based.
What options do we have for this? Would the external drive be tied to a single laptop or could it be accessed on any laptop as long as the password or some software was installed?
Cheers.
He wants to protect the contents of the external HDD via a password or similar means. I know drives like the WD My Passport have encryption built in but as he wants to keep costs down, we won't be buying a dedicated external drive.
I do have experience with encryption but they have always been hardware based.
What options do we have for this? Would the external drive be tied to a single laptop or could it be accessed on any laptop as long as the password or some software was installed?
Cheers.
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