This encrypted version of the DEK, known as the eDEK, is stored in the USB bridge’s EEPROM, in a hidden sector on the hard disk itself or in a special disk region called the service area.

The hardware-based encryption built into popular Western Digital external hard disk drives has flaws that could allow attackers to recover data without knowing the user password.

The CipherChain ExpressCard secures the external storage with full disk encryption. This means that if your external storage device is ever stolen and connected to any computer, the device will ...

But even for a budget price, it does more than the basics. It has 256-bit AES hardware encryption — a hard-to-crack cipher — and password protection to keep your files private.

Most of the disks studied encrypt and decrypt data using a USB bridge that connects a computer to the external drive's SATA interface. The interface is supposed to be off limits until after the ...

I'm pretty sure the disk management console on Windows can also create a GPT map. However, I'm pretty sure that once you encrypt the drive on OS X, Windows will be unable to read it.