External Drive Security

[searay345]

I am posting this on Behalf of another Mac friend. He just bought an external HD, a Western Digital 250 GB Drive. He wants to know if he can enable some security on it so no one can plug in to the drive and take or edit his files. Thanks in advance,

Searay

 

[Ric]

Thats a good way, thats how the Mac implements security (FileVault).

The only downside is that if the data gets a bit corrupt or you accidentally throw something a way, it's normally very hard to recover that data.

Pick a password that you won't forget, because if you lose it, you'll lose your data !

What secret stuff has he got ? ;-)

regards

Ric

 

[searay345]

Hey Zeyhra and Ric! Thanks for the info!!

I will tell my friend these steps. Ric, my friend is in the engineering program here at my school. He is going to be placing engineering projects in there that if someone got a peek at, it could compromise his projects and could lead to other bad things. He has filevault enabled already but wants the same security on the external drive.

Searay

 

[Ric]

No problem, Zeyhra did all the work ;-)

I'm always intrigued as to what people want to encyrpt...it's normally to prevent a sibling getting to nosey !

regards

Ric

 

[searay345]

Well in a way, it's to help prevent other engineers from getting access to "top secret" stuff. Same principle.

 

[zeyhra]

Hope it works for your friend Searay... It's most likely the method I'd use if I needed to store something I didn't want others to get in to... and now that I'm thinking about it, it gives me an idea for more securely backing up some of our critical data at the office!

 

[searay345]

There you go Zeyhra! That sounds like a good plan! I will be calling my friend tomorrow night to give him the procedure.

Searay