For those with patience for an in-depth review, Net-Security has undertaken a detailed review of the Ironkey Personal.

The review is of a Personal 1GB, the smallest available storage for this device, the IronKey Personal is also available with storage space up to 32GB.  It covers key areas including the Verisign Identity Protection capabilities, AES CBC-mode encryption for the hardware, use of the lost passwords authorisation feature (provided the device is activated online).

The secure backup drive is also discussed in detail, in which the data from the device is transferred to an encrypted archive located on a local computer or network share, copying all the the secure files and private data which is marked ‘hidden’ on Windows computers.