Nice idea for some corporations. I could see these being implimented, but personally and general public wise, maybe not so much... just like with the Ironkey USB drives... I dont want to risk losing my data because family or friends were messing around with my stuff. Hopefully they arent touching my computer equipment.. but sometimes they do!

 

^^ , Very intriguing hard drive idea, indeed. Especially the AES-encryption. Even though the 256-bit is not foolproof in any way, it will still take several years to hack/decrypt provided you have the required software, by "required" - meaning (read) very sophisticated.

 

Nice, really sounds like something in a Movie lol... cool.

 

Someday someone will spend a lot of time and effort only to discover some CEO's secret porn collection.

 

or even worse....his family photos.

 

and soon... self-encrypting SSDs

 

distribute with free torrent client and you have a killing!

 

Now all they need to add is an auto-destruct feature for all those IMF agent-wannabes.