So always make sure that your External Hard drive is encrypted and also password protected. Follow the below tutorial to setup the Password for your WD My Passport External Hard Drive. Once you install the necessary software, it will hardly take about 2 to 3 minutes for setting up the password. Connect the drive you want password protected. Select the drive in Disk Utility, and click on the “Erase” tab. Pull down the “Format” menu and choose “Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)”. Click on “Erase”. At the next screen, set a password – do not lose this password or you will lose access to the drives data.
Western Digital My Passport is one of that external hard drives that come with 256-bit hardware encryption. As external hard drives can store large amounts of data then it is necessary for us to protect the data stored on them.
Some years ago external hard drives were like USB flash drives with no encryption. Nowadays external hard drives come with built-in hardware encryption for data security. Taking backups of your precious files is not enough, you should also secure it everywhere you are storing it. One such way is to install a password on your external hard drive.
WD My Passport uses 256-bit hardware disk encryption encrypted with a key. The security of the drive is locked with the help of a password.
Without the password, the drive can't be opened to view files. Whenever the WD unlocker software registers 10 invalid password attempts it gives you the option to erase your My Passport. In this situation, if you erase the drive then it will be a secure delete operation.
No file can be recovered when you erase a password protected WD My Passport. What happens actually is that the software permanently deletes the key used for encrypting the data stored on the external drive.
Technically it is impossible to recover any file after this scenario. So if you have locked your then you will stay assure that if someone gets your drive then he can't unlock and view your files. However, he/she can use it as their own after a full erase. But your files can't be seen and recovered at any cost. So you see why it is necessary to password protect and encrypt your WD My Passport, the answer is sheer data security.
I search for hours but with no results. I'm searching for a simple and free application that will password protect my external disk I'm moving from one place to another one.
There are a lot of free solutions for PC but I have a hard time finding a solution for Mac. Encryption with disk utility is not a solution for me since my 10.6.8 computer would not recognize the disk. Moreover, I only want a simple password-protection. I bought a WD elements and thought I could use Wd security but it looks like it only works with WD my passport (that contains this software) and that WD is preventing WD elements hard disks to be recognized by this application. I searched the internet and it looks like there is no free solution. Or any free solution is not updated (not yosemite compatible).
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