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Super Talent rolls out SuperCrypt USB 3.0 pen drives

by Parm Mann on 4 March 2010, 13:15

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Whilst others continue to push out USB 2.0 pen drives, Super Talent seems hell bent on bringing the speed with a wave of USB 3.0 alternatives.

This week, it's a new range of USB 3.0 SuperCrypt pen drives armed with hardware encryption and capacities of up to 256GB.

Super Talent's drive, pictured above, supports speeds of up to 240MB/s - quick enough to transfer a 600MB movie in 7 seconds, says Super Talent - and measures a relatively chunky 95mm x 34mm x 15.4mm.

Arriving in addition to the company's existing USB 3.0 products - the RAIDDrive and ExpressDrive - SuperCrypt differentiates itself with a choice of security features. The standard SuperCrypt drive, available in 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities, comes armed with 128-bit ECB encryption, whilst the higher-end SuperCrypt Pro, available in 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities, offers enhanced 256-bit XTS encryption.

Both sets of drives are fully backward compatible with USB 2.0, at slower speeds of course, and are expected to become available later this month. There's no mention of pricing, but you better believe you should start saving now if you've got your eyes on the 256GB SuperCrypt Pro.

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Posted by Irien - Thu 04 Mar 2010 14:08
I'd be interested to know how the encryption works on these, having had problems sourcing good, secure pen drives for customers.

Corsair used to do an nice design with hardware keypad which allowed buttons to be pressed to “unlock” the drive, without any software needed. Not seen anything quite like that since.

I recently had to supply a Lexar Secure JumpDrive, which has proven unsatisfactory. Unless formatted to NTFS, only 4Gb of data could be encrypted, which was useless on a 16Gb drive (customer had 10Gb of data that needed to be encrypted and stored). NTFS for pen drives isn't offered by default, since it seems prone to data corruption on removal (I'd like feedback on this, as to “real world” experience, if possible!).

All in all, I'm still looking for an effective, secure way to store 10Gb on a small, removable device. The data consists of a LOT of small files, which seems to grind most backup programs to a halt (inc SyncToy, and various other Sync apps we have tried).
Posted by semo - Thu 04 Mar 2010 14:08
vaporware. where are the other USB 3.0 flash drives they launched months ago?
Posted by Parm - Thu 04 Mar 2010 14:39
Irien
Corsair used to do an nice design with hardware keypad which allowed buttons to be pressed to “unlock” the drive, without any software needed. Not seen anything quite like that since.
Irien, take a look at Corsair's second-generation version of that very drive: http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22505

semo
vaporware. where are the other USB 3.0 flash drives they launched months ago?
Semo, I believe SCAN.co.uk has them available: http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=1124557
Posted by Irien - Thu 04 Mar 2010 14:58
Brilliant, thanks Parm! As (bad) luck would have it, that news article was posted the day I left for a week-long exhibition thingy down south, with no flippin internet access, so I missed it. (Not willing to pay mega-bucks for hotel-wireless, even for good ole hexus ;) )

Thanks again!
Posted by semo - Thu 04 Mar 2010 16:03
Parm
Irien, take a look at Corsair's second-generation version of that very drive: http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22505


Semo, I believe SCAN.co.uk has them available: http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=1124557

Thanks Parm. I'm more eager for the ExpressDrive or PNQ's USB 3.0 drives which hopefully will be cheaper and smaller. As long as they have decent random r/w performance (1mb/s +) it's good enough for me!

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