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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful: By This review is from: Kingston DataTraveler Vault Privacy Edition 8 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive DTVP/8GB (Blue) (Personal Computers) My only prior experience with an encrypted USB key was with a Kingston DataTraveler Elite 1GB.The main difference between that key and this one is that this key requires two free drive letters to function. When you first plug the key in, it appears to the system as a CD-ROM drive. The program to open access to your secure data is on this drive and, once you enter your password to unlock it, the secure data is revealed on a second drive letter. This product does everything I need it to and I found it easy to set up on Windows 7. It's not very fast, but it's fast enough (the fastest I've seen it go is about 6-7MB/s) and I don't really have a need for anything faster. The device uses hardware encryption, so there's probably some overhead there. There is one problem with this device that I consider to be a significant inconvenience. On Windows 7, if I shutdown the system while the key is still connected and authenticated, the program associated with the...Read more 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful: By Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Kingston DataTraveler Vault Privacy Edition 4 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive DTVP/4GB (Blue) (Personal Computers) The Kingston DataTraveler Vault Privacy Edition features 256-bit AES encryption on 100% of the memory storage available to the user. This is in contrast with the non-Privacy Edition model which partitions the storage into non-secure and secure areas. Again, with this Privacy Edition model, every bit of data is secured; you cannot choose NOT to secure a file. (Notice the intended double negative here.)
When you first plug this into a USB port, the part of the drive that houses the built-in security program registers in Windows as a CD-ROM drive. (BTW, this product only works with Windows XP/Vista; I haven't tested on Win7 yet.) The small utility runs, letting you choose a password. You can also use the utility to set the number of allowed login attempts before the drive formats the ~4GB secured data storage area. Subsequent plugging in of the drive results in Windows' displaying an Autorun box; you should run the DTVP program, which then prompts you for...Read more 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: By Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Kingston DataTraveler Vault Privacy Edition 8 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive DTVP/8GB (Blue) (Personal Computers) This was the third or fourth flash drive I purchased, but the only one with encryption software compatible with Windows 7. The drive works awesome. |