whether it's for personal files or for business security there are lots of
reasons why you would want the data on a drive to be secure we're going to tell
you everything you need to know about self encrypting AES 256-bit drives as
fast as possible so first of all how secure is aes256 encryption well it
takes your plain text password and resc scrambles it 14 times to create an
encrypted password that would take the equivalent of millions of years to break
through using a top five 00 supercomputer with no pre-existing
knowledge of any part of your password
one of the tricky things can be making sure that your platform supports self-
encrypting drives so many business notebooks for example do but the only
way to know for sure is check with your Hardware manufacturer and make sure that
it's supported once you know it's supported all you have to do is take a
self- encrypting Drive plug it into your system set up the disk password or hard
drive password and now all that information is stored on the drive
itself so even if someone takes the drive out of your computer puts it into
a separate computer and tries to read any data off of it they must enter the
password in order to get access to your files as with any password creation
process make sure you're using a mixture of Alpha Characters numeric characters
and special characters and don't use anything obvious like a birthday or a
spouse's name or anything that someone with pre-existing knowledge of you would
be likely to guess so the advantage of a self- encrypting Drive is it's at the
the BIOS level you can't get into the dis at all without the encryption
password however there are software-based options if you don't have
a platform that supports the encrypted drive or you don't have an encrypted
Drive using programs such as true Crypt
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