Apricorn Aegis Bio External Hard Drive Review

Apricorn Aegis Bio External Hard Drive Review Female: If you work in a busy office and people are bustling around all the time, keeping your data and files secure can be a challenge. But we’re going to show you a device an external hard drive actually made by Apricorn which basically has a bio fingerprint reader built right into it. Male: Yeah, and biometrics are becoming more common place today in a lot of different devices laptops or probably some are roots even a lot. But the idea is that you use your fingerprint to replace your password. Because people have a tendency of picking passwords that are pretty easy to crack. With the fingerprint it actually makes a password that’s almost impossible to crack, add on to 120 bit in scrimption which is about into this and you got a dead lock. Female: And you don’t have to remember your password because I know that a lot of people nowadays are using more complex passwords but it’s just, it’s a pain in the butt to remember. So if you can actually just have and you're never going to loose your finger, hopefully, so— Male: Well the good thing is this scan up to 10 fingers on it, so if you loose one you got another one to check out. Let's get the laptop and somehow it works, we just got, we got to think pad here, this is from Lenovo they make the laptops and if you take a look on the fun of it, it’s actually got biometrics built in to this as well. So like I said this is common in many different laptops today and if we turn this around were going to connect Apricorn. Female: You can call it whatever you want. Male: I can call it what I want and more information on my website. You connect the device and as it powers up you can see on the fan a little red LED, well red means stop in most cases you can’t actually get access to this device from the laptop as you can see here until I scan the right finger and I’ll just show you what I mean, I scan my fingers here. It starts to blink it’s processing my fingerprint and saying no, you're not the right person who has access to the data that’s on this device. Female: The little machine is smart and it knows not to let AJ go near any of the files. Male: Hopefully we have a person whose fingerprint is registered in this thing. But once you do scan the right fingerprint it does open up access to the hard drive therefore making this a safe place to put in important encrypted information and like you said something as small as this easy to get picked up or easy to get lost you might not want that information. Female: Definitely, you need to keep your files safe. When you touched on this a little bit earlier as well but it will actually scan multiple digit’s from your setting it up. And the benefit to this is that sometimes fingerprint scanners, whether it’s an external hard drive or other ones can be a bit phonating if you relaying on the fingerprint of one digit, I've been in the situation for scanning in about 30 times and panicking, because I cant— Male: You start washing your hands. Female: Wash my hands. Good suggestion. Male: Thank you, but if you can get in right away with the one digit at least if you’ve got two or three backups on there you'll be able to get in quicker. Another thing that we should show you here and focus at home with—Cartman, and I want to watch this, this thing is actually fairly crack proof. Female: Yes, as you can see. Male: You can smash it pretty good. It’s got the 16-point touch, sorry, 16 point— Female: Omni-direction. Male: Omni-direction amount system. So essential what you do, because you have the ability to be portable at this guy. Smash it around, throw it in the bottom of you bag and the idea is, is that hard drives not only protected by your biometrics but it’s also protected by little cushions inside— Female: I think the type of files out there will have a heart attack with the idea of smashing it around. So you do still want to take care of your technology. Male: Sure. Female: But it has that extra little bit in there to protect it incase you do drop it because this things happened. Male: There you go. Female: Yes. Male: And the price? Female: The price is about $250.00 so you're paying about a buck of gig, which is a pretty good deal. I’d say that that’s pretty standard for external hard drives and you have that little bit of extra security built into it. Male: Yeah. Female: You're getting a little bit more bang through your product. Male: There you go, so don’t play catch with this thing, now. Female: No.