1. Introduction
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LaCie SAFE Mobile Hard Drive with encryption
User’s Manual
1. Introduction
Congratulations on the purchase of your new LaCie SAFE mobile hard drive! By simply plugging the LaCie SAFE mobile hard
drive into your computer and stepping through a quick and easy software setup process, you can ensure that your data is
secure from unauthorized users.
The LaCie SAFE mobile hard drive performs just like a standard external hard drive, but keeps your data secure with a
technology known as biometry. This emerging field is devoted to the identification of individuals using biological traits such
as fingerprints or voice recognition. Fingerprint scanning, which is the technology used by the SAFE mobile drive, is the most
common biometric system used today.
To further secure your data, the LaCie SAFE drive encrypts it using the high-level and widely recognized DES algorithm.
Unlike software encryption solutions that have been prone to a number of different attacks, the SAFE drive's hardware
encryption offers a higher level of protection and information security.
The SAFE drive lets you create authorized users, assign access rights and add and remove users. A software wizard guides
you step-by-step through the installation process. With all it can do for you, we’re confident that your LaCie SAFE mobile
hard drive will quickly become an important storage companion in your day-to-day business and personal computing.
1.1. What Your LaCie SAFE Drive Can Do
• Store all of your important data securely
• Provide access to data only to authorized users
• Allow up to 5 authorized users access to the drive
• Register 10 fingerprints
• Securely encrypt your data with DES or Triple DES hardware encryption
Important Info:
Any loss, corruption or destruction of data while using a LaCie drive is the sole responsibility
of the user, and under no circumstances will LaCie be held liable for the recovery or restoration of this data. To
help prevent the loss of your data, LaCie highly recommends that you keep
two
copies of your data; one copy
on your external hard drive, for instance, and a second copy either on your internal hard drive, another external
hard drive or some other form of removable storage media, such as CD, DVD or tape. LaCie offers a complete
line of CD, DVD and tape drives. For more information, refer to the LaCie white paper on backup methods.
