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Buffalo Release Encrypted External Hard Drive

(Our Tech Blog) Buffalo Inc., one of the players in the media industry storage and multimedia solutions, is launching a portable hard drive USB 2.0 in the ranks MiniStation HD-PXT equipped with TurboPC and TurboCopy.

Quoted from VIVAnews, Both of these features serves to double the speed of data transfer standards and protect the device from shocks. In this hard drive is also available 256-bit AES facility that can provide hardware encryption automatically.

"MiniStation HD-PXT deliver increased transfer speeds up to twice as much," said Toshi Sato, Country Manager of Buffalo Inc., in his statement, Friday, August 6, 2010. "There is also a protection against shocks, automatic hardware encryption, and power management," he said.

For information, AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is a security standard that was originally used by the United States and began to be used in general throughout the world. This standard was first announced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in November 2001 after undergoing a standardization process for 5 years.

Offered in three different colors namely Crystal Black, Pearl White and Ruby Red, MiniStation HD-PXT series is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7 and Mac OS X 10.4 and above.

In Indonesia, this product comes in capacities ranging from 320GB, 500GB, up to 1TB. For 3-year warranty is provided for users who choose the hard drive that sold starting from U.S. $ 68 price range is.