Flashdrives for the Paranoid and the Packrat

Today, I saw two very interesting flashdrives.

One is Verbatim's "Store 'n Go" Secure USB Drive. This flashdrive has capacity ranging from 256 MB to 4 GB. Their "General Consumer" model may or may not use the built-in security features but the high-end "Corporate" model requires mandatory password protection. It also uses a 128bit AES encryption algorithm which is hashed using the SHA-1 standard. The Corporate model will automatically wipe its contents after 10 failed password entries.

The next one on our plate is Toshiba's new "TransMemory^TM" flashdrives. Nothing too spectacular about this except that they will release a "limited edition" 16 GB(!) variant. Now, that's really impressive considering that the first computer I used had a whopping 20 MB of hard disk space. These TransMemory flashdrives are U3-compliant so users may install U3-compatible programs directly into it and run those programs wherever they may need them.