Kingston offers a range of secure drives with varying degrees of encryption in their IronKey range, and I’ve looked at two of them in the last few months. The latest drive to join the family is the Kingston IronKey Keypad 200 USB Flash Drive. According to Kingston, it’s “the industry’s first drive to offer the latest FIPS 140-3 Level 3 security for your data.”
The IronKey Keypad 200, as the name suggests, uses an alphanumeric keypad for easy-to-use PIN access. The keypad is OS independent, so you can use the drive without software.
The IronKey Keypad 200 family currently consists of five models. 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB (the drives we’re considering here) and a flagship 128GB drive. Kingston rates the drive’s performance at up to 145MB/s and he’s 115MB/s for reads and writes respectively.
In addition to being FIPS 140-3 Level 3 (certification pending), the drive also offers XTS-AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption, protection against brute force and BadUSB attacks, and is IP57 certified.
Kingston gives the IronKey Keypad 200 a 3 year warranty.
Physical specifications:
- Usable capacity: 64GB.
- Interface: USB 3.2 Gen 1, Type A.
- Form factor: USB flash drive.
- Dimensions: 78 x 18 x 8mm (80 x 20 x 10.5mm including outer sleeve)
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