While this model is no longer offered by Lenovo, the 320GB model has fallen in price to $130.Īpricorn offers many different models, starting at 250GB for $89, up to 750GB for $199. When I wrote about the ThinkPad USB Secure Hard Drive in June 2009, the 160GB model cost somewhere between $140 and $180. While the PC Magazine article only discussed the 256GB model, a quick trip to turned up a 128GB model for $379 and a visit to the Apricorn website, turned up a 64GB model for $199.Īnd, the mechanical platter-based hard drives are still available and cost far less. Heck, a low end Macbook Air offers only 64GB of SSD storage and people buy it nonetheless. Not everyone needs that much storage space.
Of course SSDs cost more than legacy mechanical drives, but still, $759 seems like a bit much to pay for an encrypted drive. The two hard drives that I wrote about previously, the Lenovo ThinkPad USB Portable Secure Drive (June 2009) and the Apricorn Aegis Padlock (December 2009) were, internally, 2.5 inch spinning platter hard drives. The article reviews the Apricorn Aegis Padlock Pro SSD drive which offers 256GB of storage for a whopping $759 (prices quoted here are approximate). There is, of course, a price to pay for the encryption, but when I previously wrote about a couple of these drives, the price premium was nothing extreme.īut, according to a recent article in PC Magazine, the price is now extreme.
Full disk encryption on an internal drive requires the computer to be powered off, to revert to a locked state, and we all know how long that takes.
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