abit secure-ide - worth anything?

[blueangel2323]

is this worth anything? if i tried to sell it would anyone buy it and for how much. i haven't been following computing trends lately but i'm assuming that everyone's using sata now.

[Codegen]

:S What's it supposed to do, anyway?

[blueangel2323]

:S What's it supposed to do, anyway?

it goes between the hard drive and the ide cable, and encrypts the data. you can only access the drive if you insert a "key" (like a usb key, except it's in the shape of firefire) into a slot that connects to the chip. otherwise if someone else uses your computer or steals your drive, they will not be able to access any information on the drive without decryption, which will apparently take government security computers "weeks" at least according to abit.

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[willy]

It looks to me those 2 are indeed firewire flash drives.

[blueangel2323]

It looks to me those 2 are indeed firewire flash drives.

Yeah they look like it... but as far as I know they just provide the encryption key to encode/decode data, and you can't use it for storage.