- Back to homepage
- Related articles
  Related articles

Silicon Power Secure G50 USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review

Storage/Other by stefan @ 2018-11-27

The new Secure G50 USB Flash Drive series from Silicon Power offers an additional layer of protection against data theft by utilizing AES 256-bit hardware-based full-disk encryption in XTS mode and the SP Locker application is the point of interaction for unlocking the sensitive data partition. The drive will re-lock as soon as it has been unmounted and if there have been multiple attempts to guess the password (or brute-force), the drive contents will be erased in order to avoid data leakage.

SP Lock Tool

The SP Locker should be ran after the first use of the drive and it will ask the user to create an access password:

If the credentials are entered correctly, we will receive a confirmation:

Every time we eject the drive and reinsert, even if the Secure partition was mounted, it will dismount automatically and ask again for the password:

If the password is entered correctly, we will receive a confirmation:

The Secure partition will then re-mount right away:

After the authentication was completed successfully, SP locker does also offer the user the possibility to reset the password with a new one or disable the security features altogether:

No comments available.

All information and graphics contained in Madshrimps are sole property of the Madshrimps crew and may not be reproduced or copied in any manner without written permission from us.