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Looking for a nice flash drive to do encrypted back-ups on it?

by Fking
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I'm tired of external HDDs, i'm thinking about getting 32 or 64GB flash drive and doing my back-ups on it.
But since i don't know much about them, have few questions

1 - How does the encryption work? I see that some advertise that they support encryption other doesn't mention anything. Does that mean that some have hardware support (and how does it work) for encryption? And for the others you will have to count on software and do it much slower?

2 - What software you would recommend for automating the back-ups as much as possible. For example auto back-up upon insertion of the drive of pre-selected folders would be great! Encrypted of course

3 - Can you split in couple of partitions (encrypted and not) any drive or you need to get specific one supporting it?


4 - Can you recommend a specific model that's small enough to fit comfortable on a key chain but is 32 or more GBs and good enough for the tasks?


Thanks
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    Well, I haven't looked much at them in this capacity, so I won't offer an opinion on #3.
    As for #2, I think you misunderstand #1, and I haven't dealt much with that either.

    As for #1? The ones I have seen come with software to do it. I never bothered to use it though. Where I am working now, their systems automatically encrypt anything saved to usb drives. You probably COULD have backup software encrypt, but the driver makes it unnecessary.

    Steve
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