ABIT IC7-Max3 Review @ OCIA

"We also have here ABIT’s new Secure IDE system. This is on the fly encryption for an IDE hard drive. Rumor has it that the next version of this board will have SATA Secure IDE instead. I have not had a chance to use the Secure IDE system, mostly because I would have to reformat and reinstall Windows again, but it is a nice feature that I plan to make use of very soon."
SecureIDE is a pretty cool feature and is basically a hardware data encryption chip that sits between the onboard controller and your HDD. The only thing that bothers me is, what happens if someone steals your HDD and the SecureIDE card? or worse yet just the SecureIDE card?.

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