Lenovo ThinkPad USB Portable Secure Hard Drive [Lenovo’s ‘Mobile Vault’]

Lenovo have unveiled a new portable hard disk drive, known as the Lenovo ThinkPad USB Portable Secure Hard Drive (or, as their press release calls it, the ‘Mobile Vault’), which, apart from being less than an inch in thickness and ‘approximately the size of a 3 x 5 inch index card’, offers an interesting take on hard drive data security in coming complete with a numeric keypad allowing uses to directly password protect their data using 128-bit advanced full disk encryption with encryption occurring in real-time (thus dispensing with what Lenovo term as the ‘lag time’ that ends to affect other similarly encrypted drives).

The Lenovo ThinkPad USB Portable Secure Hard Drive comes in 160GB and 320GB capacities, allows for usages by up to ten unique user IDs, as well as an administrator, and is being billed by Lenovo as being ‘an ideal tool for ThinkPad notebook PC users on-the-go or collaborating at work’. (The ThinkPad being a Lenovo product, of course).

Due to begin shipping in mid-November, the 160GB capacity ThinkPad USB Portable Secure Hard Drive will set you back around %180 whilst the 320GB capacity model comes in at just shy of $320. (Incidentally, if the ThinkPad USB Portable Secure Hard Drive’s level of security is in any way comparable to the apparent rarity of any decent imagery of the product then you can rest assured that it’s the pocket-friendly equivalent of Fort Knox).

(Update: Image found!)

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