I know my first post may suspect me as plant for the company, etc. but I am not. Just got a Passyport Essential SE 750GB. And I read a lot of the complaints here, but I just don’t get why the level of upset.
Maybe mine is later (fixed) version or something, but it doesn’t require me to do any of the Smartware software, if I don’t want to. It does require the installing the driver, but that seemed reasonable for SCSI and produced not even a % change in cpu or lag. And the VCD, to me that seems like a nice feature, as that appears first and you have to UNLOCK the drive with that before anyone could get to my data on the drive (if it was stolen, lost, etc.) .
That seems WELL worth it. Compared to my old external, where I had to put a TrueCrypt folder on it, and then make TrueCrypt “spaces”, which were limited in size, required some time in creating and maintaining, etc. Compared to the prior way of doing it, this VCD seems like an improvement, no?
Or is this Smartware way NOT SECURE like TrueCrypt, or something?
If someone sees some performance hit with the VCD open, they sure have better eyes than I do, because I could not notice any.
I don’t know about the auto-backups or any of that, as I don’t have the Smartware running for that, and like I said it didn’t require me to. No services were added or any processes or TCP connections; just one driver for the SCSI. So I don’t get the enormity of the upset posted. I’ve got a full drive of space, that is secured by my own good password. Sure is better than what I used to have.
Maybe people will jump me with all the failing…