Lexar JumpDrive Secure II USB Flash Drive - Mac & PC Support
by Anand Lal Shimpi on October 21, 2005 1:59 AM EST- Posted in
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Final Words
In terms of form factor, the JumpDrive Secure II is excellent. The drive is light, average in length, but far better than average in thickness, making the drive seem a lot smaller than it is. The construction is excellent and overall, we were pleased with the appearance of the drive.
Unfortunately, the read performance of the drive was average at best. And while the drive offered strong write performance, it did so at the same price as drives that offered much better read and competitive write performance.
The Dashboard application that Lexar provides with the JumpDrive Secure II is quite nice, and we applaud Lexar for supporting both Windows XP and OS X. The application itself is quite possibly the only security application that we could see ourselves using on a regular basis with any USB flash drive. Aside from user preference about the way that the application looks, its functionality is spot on, with the ability to mount and unmount multiple independent encrypted volumes. Lexar has achieved security with USB flash drives perfectly.
However, it seems that with the JumpDrive Secure II, you are paying quite a bit for the software, as the drive itself ends up selling for prices similar to the highest end drives from Lexar and Kingston. If the security is worth it to you, then by all means, go for it; but honestly, we think that the JumpDrive Secure II is priced a little too high to warrant a recommendation. At 512MB, the Secure II is reasonably competitive price-wise, but the 1GB version is simply priced too high for a recommendation.
What we'd like to see is an updated JumpDrive Lightning drive with the form factor of the Secure II, as well as the new Dashboard application. We'd gladly pay for something that offered us performance, security and the form factor, but with the JumpDrive Secure II, we only get two out of the three and that just doesn't cut it.
In terms of form factor, the JumpDrive Secure II is excellent. The drive is light, average in length, but far better than average in thickness, making the drive seem a lot smaller than it is. The construction is excellent and overall, we were pleased with the appearance of the drive.
Unfortunately, the read performance of the drive was average at best. And while the drive offered strong write performance, it did so at the same price as drives that offered much better read and competitive write performance.
The Dashboard application that Lexar provides with the JumpDrive Secure II is quite nice, and we applaud Lexar for supporting both Windows XP and OS X. The application itself is quite possibly the only security application that we could see ourselves using on a regular basis with any USB flash drive. Aside from user preference about the way that the application looks, its functionality is spot on, with the ability to mount and unmount multiple independent encrypted volumes. Lexar has achieved security with USB flash drives perfectly.
However, it seems that with the JumpDrive Secure II, you are paying quite a bit for the software, as the drive itself ends up selling for prices similar to the highest end drives from Lexar and Kingston. If the security is worth it to you, then by all means, go for it; but honestly, we think that the JumpDrive Secure II is priced a little too high to warrant a recommendation. At 512MB, the Secure II is reasonably competitive price-wise, but the 1GB version is simply priced too high for a recommendation.
What we'd like to see is an updated JumpDrive Lightning drive with the form factor of the Secure II, as well as the new Dashboard application. We'd gladly pay for something that offered us performance, security and the form factor, but with the JumpDrive Secure II, we only get two out of the three and that just doesn't cut it.
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gsellis - Friday, October 21, 2005 - link
Looks like they fixed it. The last model was too wide to fit into some USB ports because of the surrounding hardware.mosquiton - Friday, October 21, 2005 - link
The thing looks very familiar...tvittetoe - Wednesday, October 19, 2022 - link
I am hoping I can replace an older Lexar file: SecureII.exe. I still have the older jumpdrive with SecureII.exe on it, but it won't decrypt a couple of older lxv files I have.