Origin touts first 1TB hardware encrypted drive

External casing builds in 256bit AES encryption.

Origin Storage is boasting that it's the first to launch a 1TB hard drive with hardware encryption built in.

The Data Locker Secure Drive is a USB powered external hard drive unit with a 2.5in SATA drive locked inside.

It bundles in a whole heap of security features to help make sure that no one can get at your porn collection and that government secrets aren't leaked out when some top ranking official leaves his stuff on the train.

As well being ruggedised to protect against bumps and falls, the device sports a LCD screen to provide status information and allows the entry of a six to 18 digit PIN number needed to access or manage the drive. One advantage of this is that nothing needs to be installed on the computer it's plugged in to, as all of the security is handled by the device itself.

The Consumer and Pro editions use 128bit AES encryption, while the Enterprise version bumps that up to 256bit.
According to Origin, the Data Locker can also detect brute force attacks, having a self destruct mode for all the data on the device and hardware based malware detection.