Apricorn Fips 140 – 2 TB Aegis Schloss Festung ENCRYPTED USB 3.0 Hard Drive mit Zugang Pin, Farbe: schwarz, 3,5, A25-3PL256-2000F

Very impressive security features that do not fail and give enormous peace of mind in an age of ongoing cyber threats and information theft. Not to mention its incredibly sturdy and well-built feel. Very fast with the USB 3.0 even with the high standard of encryption used. Yes, it may seem like a lot to pay for an external HD, but you'll never have to worry about a security breech to your backed up data ever again. And in my mind, that's worth every penny.

Quiet and fast. The description is wrong. This one is a 2TB same as the one on the model number.

I have two of these identical Fortress drives. I just copied 894GB from one drive to another at an average speed of 113MB/sec (USB 3.0, Thinkpad P50). That's impressive for spinning drives. Benchmarking the individual drives using ATTODiskBenchmark pegged the speed at 140MB/sec. Note that for some reason, using the closest side USB port on my Thinkpad P50 showed poor speed (40 mb/sec or so) and the other three USB ports showed 140MB/sec, but they're supposed to all be USB 3.0. Since the Fortress drive has a fixed USB cable, I couldn't test with the USB-C port.

Purchased from Amazon 2 Years ago (price hasn't changed) & it's been sitting in my closet, untouched ever since... Tore open the seal this AM & plugged in for the initial setup... Following the self-test, it skipped the setup (BLUE) LED & went directly to (RED)/Locked. Rinsed & repeated the previous steps, though always went directly to solid RED, that was until the final attempt... Final attempt went from POST to rapid/blinking RED LED. At least this status was consistent, since regardless of how many times I unplugged/plugged, blinking RED is now the only status. Per the manual, "A test failure will leave the unit in an inoperable indicated by a blinking RED LED." Goody... I'm honestly happy it failed during the initial setup, since I'd hate to have entrusted this ticking timebomb with all my critical & irreplaceable files/data, only to find that it's now irrecoverable. Sure, I'm out the initial $ I fronted, but I'd take (Data Integrity) > (Refund) any day of the week. Now onto the unfortunate task of researching the plethora of alternative options out there, but I'm now debating on purchasing duplicate devices (or multiple vendors) & manually mirroring the backups between the 2 (or 3 or 4), just in case...

I think I purchased this thing at least 5 years ago. So far so good. It has been a life saver at times. I don’t use it often it is my mainstay for my passwords and other things I wish to take to my grave. It’s my Pharaoh’s Tomb. I go to it when I need to add or retrieve secret things. It hasn’t failed me yet.