CES 2008 just revealed a new product from Maxtor which involves encrypting data on your external hard drives at a government level. Many times you don't want people to access sensitive files backed up to your external hard drive. Maxtor is releasing a new product that lets you automatically encrypt files on a 160GB external drive.

Black Armor uses government grade AES made by NIST to deliver the strongest protection. Sometimes encryption really slows down performance, but they've figured a way so it doesn't. This will be a great addition for those with sensitive files.