Patriot Memory 16GB Bolt USB Flash Drive
May 6th, 2010 | By SimonCompact USB Flash Drives are certainly the direction companies are heading and rightfully so, everyone wants something small that can fit in a pocket and feel like nothing. The only problem with it becomes when you lose something so small. It would be a disaster if confidential data was leaked to the competition through an unsecure flash drive. With the Patriot Memory Bolt you can be confident that once encrypted with a password the data can’t be accessed without unlocking the device. After ten brute force attacks the data is simply formatted from the drive.
Typically the more processing required before you can access the data off a device the slower it performs. That’s not the case with the Patriot Memory Bolt. While it is certainly not as fast as plain flash drives, it puts up a very respectable read speed of 32MB/s and a write speed of 14MB/s.
- Advantages
- Hardware encryption
- Fast write speed for encrypted drive
- Consistent performance
- Disadvantages
- Limited to Windows operating systems
- Encryption unlocked by software entered pin
I’d like to thank Patriot Memory for making this review possible.