Read our full Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 80 review (opens in new tab). It’s expensive by storage standards, but the VP80ES is a solid attempt at providing an easy-to-use, transportable and secure repository.

Out of the box, it comes with a soft carry pouch and two cables for USB-A and USB-C connections. The storage component is an SSD, although this drive can only achieve reading and writing of around 250MB/s over a USB 3.2 Gen 1 connection. Key Features Hardware-encrypted USB Drive for Data Protection Multi-Password Option for Data Recovery New Passphrase Mode Dual Read-Only (Write-Protect). For mac users, formatting the drive using the HFS+ file system comes in handy. And, the drive will erase the contents if too many passwords are incorrectly entered. You can password-protect the entire USB drive using tools such as BitLocker on a Windows PC or use third-party tools such as the Rohos mini drive that’ll encrypt a section of the flash drive, keeping your data secure. Kingston designed it to cope with various potential attacks, including BadUSB and even physical intrusion into the mechanism. Secure encrypted storage devices once required software to be installed to provide a means to input the decryption key, but the Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 80 circumvents the need for that with an inbuilt touch screen.Īvailable in 480GB, 960GB and 1920GB capacities, the VP80ES, as it's also known, sports FIPS 197 certified security and a Common Criteria EAL5+ certified secure microprocessor.

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