Kingston IronKey D500S 128GB, USB-A, USB 3.2 Gen 1×1

The Kingston IronKey D500S is a truly formidable entry in the secure storage market, designed specifically for government, military, and enterprise users who require the absolute highest level of data protection. Of course, there’s wide scope for a lot of other uses too, such as storing files you want to keep private, which can be vital in many industries, such as design, research and journalism.

Even though in terms of pure read and write performance hardware encrypted drives fall behind regular models (this includes software encryption) we’ve reached a point where I don’t think many people would have a problem using a drive that surpasses 150-200MB/s in reads and writes. The sole downside drives like the D500S have (as opposed to keypad and Bluetooth models) is that they are not OS & platform independent and so if you’d like to use it with your media player, projector or even your gaming console chances are you’ll not be able to do that. That aside however the IronKey D500S excels in everything else from build quality and available protections to features and performance so I don’t think this will be a game breaker for many people. As for protections I once again used my small software collection, and I was unable to access files inside the drive. Again, I am not a hacker/cracker so I am not really qualified for this part so once again if anyone out there would want me to use a specific software (or anything else) while testing secure drives feel free to reach out.