Kanguru Defender Elite30 – 128 GB Hardware Encrypted Flash Drive - Physical Write Protect Switch – SuperSpeed USB 3.0

Like many IT professionals, I'm constantly working on infected machines and keep my toolkit on a flash drive. Worried about compromising my drive and then other machines, I purchased this Kanguru drive.It's 8GB (not sure where the other reviewer saw a different size), it does have an activity light when it's in use, and the physical write-protect switch works as intended.I boot from this drive as well as keep other standard programs on it, have had no issues at all. Would buy again and recommend.

Great flash drives. These are the only flash drives that i have found with a read/write switch, for a reasonable price. The construction is exceptional - the case of the drive is metal! Love it.

This drive keeps working without issues. I once called the manufacturer and they told me that if I forgot the password, not even they could recover my data. This is extremely important to me.I gave it a 4 statr because the protective cap keeps coming off and it eventually got loss. Replacements were about $3 + shipping, so I bout 2. They are lost. I gave up and no longer have a protective cap. Other than that, I consider it the best secure flash drive in the market.

This is a great USB stick for wedding videos. I did not realize how hard it would be to find a USB drive with a write lock until I started looking; back in the day almost all of them had it but I guess people didn't realize how important that little switch is so manufacturers stopped adding it to their flash drives.I would have preferred a less industrial looking drive to send to my wedding video clients but I had to settle for this drive since I would prefer ruggedness over looks. The way I use this drive is I place all of the client's wedding videos on it, double check everything to make sure that it works then slide the lock switch to the locked position. My last step is to put two drops of super glue on the lock switch to prevent it from being unlocked.This approach ensures the client cannot get infected with malware, does not find a way to damage the file / folder structure on the USB drive, and ensures that the drive is read only.

These are by far the most reliable, hi-performance thumb drives with a HARDWARE lock.I'm an I/T tech and manage 100's of computers. I store all my utilities/apps on these andhaving the ability to lock it (prevent malware, data loss, etc) before inserting it into thosecomputers has been a life saver.

71% (so far) of these drives were defective. I ordered 21 of these drives because our company is implementing DLP and therefore shutting off write access to our USB drives. Since these drives are hardware encrypted and require the user entering a password before viewing or accessing any of the data stored on them they are exempt from the USB write restriction. I ordered myself a test device at first - which worked - and then based on that I ordered 20 more for other users. I'm still waiting to hear back from a few people, but of the 13 I've heard back from so far (plus my original) an astonishing 10 have been defective. The way these drives work is they have two partitions - a read-only partition with an application on it that asks for the password and only upon entering the correct password the read/write partition is shown. On the defective drives the read-only partition is missing the application that asks for the password. After contacting Kanguru they sent a download to a repair tool, but that errors out on these drives and the only option is to work with the manufacturer to send them back to the factory for new ones. However, with a 70%+ failure rate I'm not overly confident that the replacements will work either + plus the hassle of having to collect them all, send them back and then test and distribute all the replacements. So far I'm several hours of headache in and I'm sure there will be many more to come. For a drive that is already priced 15x the price of a non-hardware encrypted version and targeted toward enterprises you'd think their QA processes would be a little more stringent.The physical drive itself is well made, heavy and does not appear cheap in any way - which is good considering the price you pay.

I had no idea this product was used because it didn’t say so in the description or at least I missed that part when I read it. The white box had a protective sticker that was already torn apart indicating it was opened previously, the drive is missing the protective cap and I had to add a partition table and format it. Usually a brand new flash drive is already formatted with fat32 or exfat.

These are great for a computer tech like me to copy software onto different computers. The hardware write protect switch prevents the flash drive from ever getting infected if you plug it into a computer that has viruses on it.