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Addonics Technologies Saturn Cipher Combo Hard Drive User Guide
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Chapter 3 Keeping track of the hard drive
If you are using the Saturn Cipher drive enclosure to encrypted multiple hard
drives. It is important to label your hard drive if you are taking the drive out
of the enclosure. The hard drive with Saturn Cipher encryption will look like
a brand new drive when attach directly to the IDE or SATA controller of a
computer. There will be no partition or any hint to indicate that the drive
contains encrypted data. When the drive is partitioned, all th e encrypted data
will be lost.
The same holds true if a hard drive already has data on it is installed into the
Saturn Cipher drive enclosure. The computer detects the hard drive as a
brand new drive or a drive that is unallocated. Once you proceed to partition
the drive, the data that was on the hard drive will be erased and cannot be
recovered.
A Saturn Cipher encrypted hard drive can be moved to another Saturn Cipher
drive enclosure. But the same key used in encrypting the hard drive must be
used in the new drive enclosure in order to access the drive.
If you are installing multiple Saturn Cipher drive kits into a large
organization, it is important to keep track of the drive and the encryption
key. Once it gets mixed up, there is no possible way to recover the data on
the encrypted hard drive.