Gadgetory

today we're going to be doing an unboxing of a new SSD from Kingston this is their ssdnow the plus so we've already talked about the SSD now v+ series an awful lot in a full install guide where i showed upgrading my laptop from a 5400 RPM mobile hard drive to an SSD now v+ but this one is slightly different this is their 100 e series of SSD Navi plus and this one is fully encrypted so that means your data is completely protected when it is on this Drive now what exactly does that mean well it has 120 bit aes hardware encryption which means that you're not fooling around with any kind of software solution it increases your system and application performance well that's just a characteristic of an SSD in general and it increases reliability so that's another general SSD abilities let's go ahead and take this guy out and have a look this is a 64 gig drive although it is available in different capacities depending on your needs sorry I have to focus what these are nice because otherwise I could damage my unboxing fingers of those I mean I would be a baton boss anything and I'd be in real trouble ok here we go so oh they're cleaning up to five times faster than a standard 5400 RPM hard drive I mean I would say that's probably conservative depending on what you're doing because if you're using a 5400 RPM hard drive I mean obviously they're targeting this skew at notebooks for business users who might not want people having unauthorized access to their hard drive but depending what you're doing I mean an SSD can just blow away a standard hard drive like if you're doing lots of little data accesses versus sustained data transfer so here we go English so you got some system requirements you need to SATA interface and power connector handling precautions be very careful with it don't you know rub your feet around on the carpet and touch touch it try and zap it because that's a terrible idea set up a tee a security cat passwords here we go hey check this out okay so this is how the encryption work so never lose misplace or forget your master and or user password never do that once you enable an 80 a security password this SSD will be permanently inaccessible if your password is lost misplaced or stolen so administrators and managers we recommend that you set a master password which cannot be reset if lost misplaced or stolen therefore always store the master password and safe secure location so there you go you better be careful once you've set this guy up if you like get hit in the head really hard and you develop amnesia you're in real trouble unless someone else has the master password and they can bail you out so you've got your standard mounting holes which are on the bottom or on the sides for two and a half inch drives just like that you know it's actually substantially heavier than most SSDs that I've encountered in the past as well you've got a little warranty void if remove sticker here so please don't take the drive apart you've got a standard SATA 2 interface at the back that means say 22 power as well as say 22 data along with some jumpers and that's pretty much it i mean the finish of the drive is quite nice but what this really comes down to is who needs this let's say you're working on you know a top-secret project for the military or you're working on something for you know your company that you don't want to get into the hands of your competitors you want to make sure that even if your laptop is stolen or lost any data that you have on it cannot be accessed unless it's being turned on by you this is what you need because I mean really it's so easy to break past a windows password or to just take a drive out throw it in another system and then access all the data that there's no security at all with a regular drive whereas if you have a hardware encrypted drive you can actually protect it from anyone who is trying to steal your data