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STEALTH IS ALLABOUT PREVENTION. THIS small-form-factor USB micro hard drive, roughly the size of a pack of cards and weighing approximately a third of a pound, is the latest in secured drive offerings from Memory Experts International (MXI). It uses biometric authentication and 256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) hardware encryption to keep data safe from prying eyes.
Portable biometric authentication is nothing new, but with MXI's Stealth you can also move data from machine to machine fairly easily, as this drive works with hardware running Windows, Apple, and Linux OSes that support USB 2.0. There are two caveats: small storage capacity and no easy way to share encrypted storage space.
The Stealth unit has ruggedized rubber edges, which are nice if you accidentally drop the drive, but they make it difficult to slide it into your pocket. The unit comes with two USB cables and a USB micro connector on one side; on the back of the drive is a power connector so you may plug the Stealth in if the USB port doesn't provide adequate power.
The Stealth micro drive I tested had a storage capacity of 2GB, decent enough for quite...