A Type-C male to Type-A female cable is also used to connect the thumb drives to the motherboard's Type-C port. It connects to the Z170 PCH via a PCIe 3.0 x4 link. For devices with USB 3.0 (via an attached Type-A male interface) connections (such as the DTVP30 and the diskGO that we are considering today), we utilize the USB 3.1 Type-C port enabled by the Intel Alpine Ridge controller. Testbed Setup and Testing MethodologyĮvaluation of DAS units on Windows is done with the testbed outlined in the table below. The key here is that both the DTV30 and the diskGO make it mandatory to use encryption., while the feature is optional for SSDs such as the T5 or the WD My Passport SSD.
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Readers might note that this strategy of mounting a read-only volume to store the programs for securing the contents is similar to that of the Samsung Portable SSD T5. The entire locking and unlocking processes are essentially the same between the DTVP30 and the diskGO. The diskGO UI is very similar, except for the fact that only Windows and Mac are supported currently. The DTVP30 also comes with a small lanyard. There exists the possibility of misplacing the cap, but, it does provide more protection against dust compared to the diskGO. The diskGO comes with a retractable USB connector, while the DTVP30 comes with a removable cap on the connector. The diskGO is slightly smaller (58mm x 22mm x 10mm). In terms of size, the DTVP30 comes in at approximately 78mm x 22mm x 12mm. The main selling point is the 256-bit AES hardware encryption in XTS mode on both units.
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The Kingston DataTraveler Vault Privacy (referred to as DTVP30 here onwards) and the EDGE diskGO Secure Pro 3.0 (diskGO for the remainder of the piece) are both compact thumb drives.
In today's review, we take a look at the 64GB variants of two products targeting this market - the Kingston DataTraveler Vault Privacy 3.0 and the EDGE diskGO Secure Pro 3.0. They are valued by SMBs and enterprises due to the strong focus on data security. Compact thumb drives with hardware encryption are relatively rare, and command a significant price premium. There are exceptions such as the Corsair Voyager GTX and the Mushkin Ventura Ultra, but, most people wouldn't consider them compact. Compact thumb drives usually use a native controller (i.e, directly translating the flash interface to USB without an intermediate SATA link). They have all been SSDs behind a USB - SATA bridge, with the onus of encryption falling on the SSD controller.
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In our series of direct-attached storage reviews, we have taken a look at number of devices that offer hardware encryption with no performance impact. Thumb drives are the most commonly used flash-based storage devices, thanks to their compact form factor and affordability.
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