Review: Secure Flash Drives

Enex Testlab Review

Imation Secure+

Of all the drives on test, Imation's Secure+ is the cheapest by a large margin compared to the other 2GB and 4GB units, despite being a hardware-encryption enabled device. It doesn't have as fast a read speed as its competitors, and only supports Windows, but most will likely find this isn't an issue for the price.

Imation's setup software is plain and simple -- in its favour however is an option for a 'Corporate' mode and, within this, a neat one-time password feature. The Corporate mode allows an IT administrator to setup drives and maintain full ownership while creating an additional username and login that has access to the secure partition, but unable to access other features (like changing the password).

The only downside to Imation's software is that in order to wipe the device and reset it (perhaps to hand to another user) the original first-install password must be known -- you can't simply launch the application and reset the device with a new password, as with the other devices tested here.

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