Originally Posted By: joemikeb
Originally Posted By: artie505
Aaah! I just grasped that.

When I said that en/decryption done by the drive, itself, rather than by OS X (should have said "by the OS") seems to be limited to Windows users I meant that when I've seen the option (on HDDs only, I believe) it has been bundled software that disappeared when the drive was formatted for Mac. Sorry for not being explicit.

I believe what you are seeing in Windows is not hardware encryption rather the same thing found in OS X under the sobriquet FileVault.

No, that's not it (Very happily, I've got no occasion to ever see anything in Windows!); it's something that's pre-installed on the HDD (as per tacit):

Originally Posted By: tacit
Depends on the drive in question. Some hard drives ship with (Windows-based) software encryption. Some provide hardware-level encryption, though often with only Windows drivers or Windows apps to set the hardware encryption password.

The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.

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