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Apricorn expands Aegis Bio hardware-encrypted biometric HDD to 640GB

By | July 15, 2010, 6:36am PDT

Summary: If you have a lot of classified information that you need to protect, listen up. Apricorn’s Aegis Bio hardware-encrypted biometric HDD is now larger and has so much security that it might even lock the owner out. Already available in 250GB, 320GB, and 500GB capacities, now there’s a 640GB version ready for the taking. High levels of security come [...]

If you have a lot of classified information that you need to protect, listen up. Apricorn’s Aegis Bio hardware-encrypted biometric HDD is now larger and has so much security that it might even lock the owner out.

Already available in 250GB, 320GB, and 500GB capacities, now there’s a 640GB version ready for the taking. High levels of security come in the forms of a biometric fingerprint sensor and 128-bit AES hardware encryption of the entire drive - even if it falls into the wrong hands and is tampered with. It appears that Apricorn stopped just short of installing a retina scanner. (Kidding.)

Available now, $159 will get you the 640GB variant with a USB 2.0 cable, an auxiliary power Y-cable and a travel pouch.

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