7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Needs improvement,
June 7, 2009 Chemboy (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: AcomData Enigma Fingerprint Security 500 GB USB 2.0 Rugged Portable 2.5-inch External Hard Drive BIO500UE (Black) (Personal Computers)
This portable drive is well made. The rubber siding helps protect it from getting scratched; would it withstand a big drop? who knows?!?!? I didn't have an issue with the software being for windows only. My only problem is that the software wouldn't recognize my index finger consistently with the biometric scanner....sometimes it would, other times it would not. If it did scan my finger correctly the software would hang up. I contacted acomdata and they emailed me an update to the software. That did not help as I still encountered the same problem. I think the portable drive needs some fixes before it will be purchase worthy. I would not recommend at this time.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Not much luck,
August 6, 2009 T. Miller - See all my reviews
This review is from: AcomData Enigma Fingerprint Security 500 GB USB 2.0 Rugged Portable 2.5-inch External Hard Drive BIO500UE (Black) (Personal Computers)
I purchased a couple of these and returned them.
First, I will say that the concept and construction are well done. It is a little bit heavy, but it sits nicely on the desk with the rubber border and the fingerprint reader is in a nice position. So as far as the concept goes, it is a nice unit. This is the reason it gets two stars instead of one. The fingerprint recoginition software was also nice from a simple user interface standpoint.
However, I am very suspicious of the software. I had quite a few problems on both drives. I contacted Acomdata, and they were helpful. They provided a software application to reconfigure/reset the device. I had two drives, so my problems were not likely due to a luck of the draw bad drive. They both behaved the same way with my system.
You can use this drive with the entire drive encrypted, none of it encrypted, or half and half. I tried it all ways. If you use an encrypted partition, you can not hard set...Read more
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Misleading Description,
June 4, 2009 VisualSmith (Jacksonville, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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Drive seems good but it does require you to install software. The software is only Windows compatible and requires administrator login. If you really didn't have to install software I would not have a problem with this product. I returned this product and purchased Buffalo Technology HD-PF320U2 320GB MiniStation Portable USB 2.0 Hard Drive with TurboUSB (Black)
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