recommendations for USB flash drive with hardware write protection?

[badcookies]

Hi [H]!

so, anyone have any recommendations for a good sized/speed flash drive with hardware write protection? this means a switch or something that ensures no writing possible. data encryption is a bonus but not necessary. im kinda the go-to guy for computer issues so i've worked with a good amount of infected/infective systems and i really am getting tired of formatting a fresh 4 GB drive to use on a system one time and need to format again. im kinda looking for a 32gb so i can store a bit more on there but i guess 16 would work too. i've been looking at this but i dont know anything about speed/reliability of the drive

https://www.kanguru.com/index.php/defender-v2

anyone on [H] have this or any other type of secure flash drive they can give their two cents on?

TIA~

 

[becand75]

I've owned just about every flavor of the Corsair line of flash drive.

The Survivor is by far my favorite. Practically indestructible.

As for security, the Padlock series is pretty sweet.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233113

 

[badcookies]

^^ wow, never knew such a thing existed!

edit: reading reviews, some say they're rather slow and is it only locked after disconnecting for 2 minutes? kinda defeats the purpose of secure if say one were to forget it plugged in on some system.

 

[-Dragon-]

Ironkey is far better than that padlock crap for security and while the write protection is technically enabled via software it can only be enabled/disabled during unlock which is all handled by hardware. The S series ironkeys use SLC flash for long life and fast writes, D series is MLC and does suffer some of the performance issues with writes but still fast reads and a bit more cost effective.

As far a $0.02, Ironkey was a security company that decided to make secure flash drives and has lots of government agencies as clients, and lockheed martin uses their drives as a basis for a secure flash boot device. Everyone else is a flash drive manufacturer that tried to add security to their drives. Guess which is more secure. As a matter of fact several major manufacturers who tried to add security to their flash drives had to recall their entire lines due to a massive vulnerability. I don't know if it's still possible but it used to be possible to completely bypass corsair's padlock protection with a simple jumper.

IK costs a buttload of cash but you get real security instead of half assed security these other companies try to peddle. Serious case of "you get what you pay for"