Biometric Flash Drives : Providing Secure Electronic Mass Storage

Biometric flash drives (also known as "biometric thumb drives"), are gaining increasing popularity because of the added level of security it provides to the now common flash drives. As the costs of flash drives keep declining, users are more likely to copy more data be it personal or corporate to these convinient devices. Though convinient, flash drives also are easily lost, making the data contained in it vulnerable to prying eyes. Biometric flash drives solves this loophole by providing secure storage of critical information.

Biometric flash drives basically provide an interesting combination of biometric authentication technology and electronic mass storage. Biometric flash drives basically have a public and a private partition. The public partition can be accessed by all the users like a normal USB flash brive. It also at times consists of the software required to access the private partition of the disk. With the software it is easy to add and remove users and also to adjust the balance between the two partitions.

Applications of biometric flash drives are manifold when we understand the benefits it has to offer. Just imagine how easy it would now be to carry sensitive infrmation alongwith you without worrying about it getting lost.

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1 Touch IQ2 Keyless Fingerprint Door Lock - Biometric Door Lock:

Specification:

Door Thickness: 1.5" to 2.36"

Unlocking Methods:Fingerprint, Code and Mechanical Key

False Identification Rate: <0.0001%>15000v

Working Temperature: -29°F / 140°F

Password Capacity: 78 (minus fingerprint users)

Password Length: 8 bytes

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