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How to Password Protect an External Drive

Here how to encrypt an external HDD/SSD

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Ryan Kennedy
Aug 21, 2021
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External hard drives are very useful because of their portability. It helps us to transfer/ borrow large data without a computer and especially for any business employee with large or time-sensitive files.

As most of the time, we store our sensitive data on an external hard drive, We need to put a password and encrypt the data for safety. To encrypt the …

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