WD Passport Essential encryption in Linux

[dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)]

2009/12/30 Robert Miller <arch3angel at gmail.com>:
> I went with the basic WD Passport Essential USB 2.0 Part Number
> WD4000ME-00 and just used Truecrypt, protected the entire space as a
> single partition with a really long passphrase.
>
> I did this so I could use it under Windows and Linux because I found
> little information on the topic when i researched it.
>
> Hope this helps,

That means you are ignoring the hardware encryption, if I were going
to do that I'd save the ?10 difference and go for the Elements drive.

The lack of linux support tallies with all the other research I've done.

Robin

> - Robert
> (arch3angel)
>
> On 12/29/2009 11:33 AM, Robin Wood wrote:
> > I'm looking at getting a WD portable harddrive and my choice is
> > between the Essential and the Elements. The Essential has hardware
> > encryption but I can only find reference to it working under Windows
> > and Mac. Does anyone have one and know anything about its Linux
> > compatibility or lack thereof?
> >
> > Robin
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