Kingston Data Traveler Locker+ 16GB Encrypted USB Flash Drive Setup Guide Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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this video is going to be a quick guide to setting up your data traveler locker
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plus so that was the USB flash drive
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that I unboxed very recently so this is a 16 gig one here so I plug it in and
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then I run the dtl plus
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utility takes just a moment to
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launch okay here we go so language English that will work out just fine for
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me but there's your language selections that you can choose from
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and I accept the license agreement which is it's actually not that long it's
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actually readable okay and then I put in a
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password so here we can see the password rules 6 to 16 characters long and
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contain at least three of the following uppercase
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lowercase digits and special characters wow okay well it happens that my
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personal favorite strong password uh already
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contains a bunch of different kinds of characters so I'm just typing it with my
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other hand here and uh so that should be just fine so my hint will be
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strong okay there we are I can wow I can put in
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my name okay so I'll put my name my
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company as most of you already know is
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NCIX and then details I don't really have any okay so go ahead and
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finish so it's formatting the
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drive we'll see see how long that takes
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hopefully not too long oh done okay so that was it
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so can we open the drive now oh yes we
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can okay so there I opened up uh another Explorer window and it's
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given me the option to open up the drive okay well why don't we do a quick speed test while we're at it so let's grab a
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large file like a say for example a video file and copy it over
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there so this is a 799 Meg file and I'll
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let you guys do the timing if you feel like it but we can see what Windows
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reports as the speed which isn't actually too bad for uh just a normal
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USB flash drive some of the Quad Channel ones will do up to about 25 megabytes
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per second so I assume this one's a dual channel
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one this should be done fairly shortly I guess I could have chosen a smaller
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video file if I really wanted to uh anyway the advantage that you get with
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the locker plus is that you have the data encryption so what I'm going to do
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is once this file is on the drive I'm going to take it out put it back in the
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computer and then we'll see the little prompt where it should ask for a
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password before I can actually access the
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drive that's cool I'm
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patient almost
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done and then there we go so the file is
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copied so I'm going to go ahead and pull it out of the computer
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now if I can find it there it is okay we
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have removed it now let's try again plug it
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in and let's see what
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happens here we go so can I just open a folder to view the oh no I cannot so I
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have to actually run the the auto run okay open autoplay run the launcher so
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now hopefully it'll give me a choice to just put in the password and
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access the data yeah there we
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go I've never actually used an encrypted USB before okay there's my hint so I can
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log in and there we go there's my data so if
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I copy this into here uh yeah copy and
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replace we can see how quickly we can read off the drive so you can see the
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reads are quite a bit faster than the rights
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bear in mind you're going to get slower results if you're using a number of small files versus one large file so I'm
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I'm giving it every Advantage here to prove its best case scenario but there
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you have it there's our little uh setup guide and test of the Kingston 16 gig
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data traveler locker plus don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips and I
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have a question for you if you want to leave a comment under the video tell me
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what you would use an encrypted USB thumb drive for and the winner of
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whoever I think has the best or funniest or most appropriate or I don't know it's
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going to be arbitrary but I'm going to pick one winner and they will win a 16
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gig data traveler locker plus so that's
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pretty cool right leave a comment