•Best External Drive Encryption Software????

Hi,
I need to find a good external firewire drive encryption software, any recommendations? I have gigs of legal files that must be encrypted but with a VERY stable program.
Thanks,

Disk Utility makes AES-256 images which can be put on external hard drives. Of course the power of encryption also depends on the quality of your password. If you use anything that might be found in any language in the password, that won't work. Mixing numbers and letters without vowels is the best way to construct passwords. Mixing cases helps too.

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Not quite sure what this question has to do with Qmaster, but what the heck.
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Cool Drives
OWC
WiebeTech
Firewire Direct
California Drives
NewEgg
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I am running time machine on an encrypted external drive. Usually I have to log into the drive with a password upon connecting it. The problem I experienced is that drive locked me out and would freeze upon entering my password. I tried repairing drive with disk utility to no avail, the problem occured for about 24 hours. I read numerous forum entries about this problem where there seemed to be no definitive answer. A lot of ppl had given up and reformatted there drives.
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CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group ***
    =========================================================
    Name:         Big Kitty
    Status:       Online
    Size:         2000052772864 B (2.0 TB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
    |
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        Encryption Status:       Locked
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        Fully Secure:            Yes
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            Conversion Progress:   -none-
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            LV Name:               Big Kitty
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Magically today my drive started working again so I just wanted to know if anyone has experienced this problem and if so was it related to the HD failing or an OS/X problem.
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CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group ***
    =========================================================
    Name:         Big Kitty
    Status:       Online
    Size:         2000052772864 B (2.0 TB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume ***
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        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
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        Has Encrypted Extents:   Yes
        Fully Secure:            Yes
        Passphrase Required:     Yes
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            Status:             Online
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            Size (Converted):   -none-
            Revertible:         No
            LV Name:            Big Kitty
            Volume Name:        Big Kitty
            Content Hint:       Apple_HFS
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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Try the action that you're having trouble with again. Post any messages that appear in the Console window – the text, please, not a screenshot.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Edit it out by search-and-replace in a text editor before posting.

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                    2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff915bfdfa +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 106
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                    14 AppKit                              0x00007fff8e505bde -[NSControl mouseDown:] + 786
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                    16 AppKit                              0x00007fff8e46916d -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 5593
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- works great with TPM (without TPM look in Win 8)
- manage it with in AD (with an Enterprise Agreement you can do MBAM)
- add some scripts (WMI) for reporting
- configure GPOs so that all recovery keys are stored centrally and make seperate backups of all recovery info in AD just in case the machine account gets deleted and recreated and you need after 2years the recovery key
My experience with 3rd parties are not good either, regardless who it was.
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Lutz

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You really don't need Seagate's software to use the external drive with your Mac.
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If you want to use it to share photo's, music and doc files between PC's and your Mac, erase it and format it MS-DOS FAT-32.
If you want to make a bootable clone using Disk Utility, CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper, erase it, set the Partition Scheme to GUID Partition and the format to Mac OS Extended.
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