ValiDrive and Aegis Secure Key 3NXC

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ALCON,

Just wanted to say thanks to Steve Gibson for ValiDrive.

I just tried an encrypted Aegis Secure Key 3NXC USB-C flash drive, and I think this is the fastest drive I have every tried.

I have had other non-encrypted drives this size take a 1/2 an hour or more. This one was less than a minute.

Drive is mounted for Windows 10 Pro.

The drive I have is a 32 GB version.

Aegis Secure Key 3NXC

Has anyone else tried this type of Encrypted Flash Drive on ValiDrive?

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Here are my results.

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I suspect a device that supports encryption is going to have pretty reasonable buffering as it will need to receive large chunks of data at a time and store them temporarily as the encryption processes them, and presumably also do something similar when reading as well. The extra buffering probably makes it smoother at handling the sort of tests that ValiDrive issues.
 
Can I jump in here and wonder how you tested your encrypted drive?
I have a Kingston ditto. If I insert it into my PC to run ValiDrive, ValiDrive doesn't seem to recognize it and does nothing.
If I use the Kingston s/w to access the whole drive (via my Kingston pw), no problem, but then, of course, ValiDrive requires me to eject it and reinsert it
in order to test it, whereupon my pw access is blown away, and I'm back to stage 1.
Thanks (and hope this made sense)
 
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