It still works great, even under Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, but it does seem to carry some rather old fashioned ideas about what works and what doesn’t work under OS X. Sadly, its update schedule is not especially frequent and the most recent version (7.1a) has been out for quite some time now. I run it on all my computers (Mac, Windows, Linux) and I use it to encrypt most of my external hard drives - especially those I tend to travel with. TrueCrypt is a great disk encryption app and I highly recommend it. It’s a fancy name for what seems like such a small difference, but it is apparently a bigger change than you might think since those 512 byte sectors appears to have been with us since the dawn of hard drives back in 1956! Talk about staying backwards compatible forever…īut be that as it may, all my computers (Mac, Windows, Linux) seem to handle this change just fine, but TrueCrypt was less happy when I tried to initialize the drive with it. This is apparently called the Advanced Format.
It’s also got a whopping 4 KB large sectors instead of the standard 512 byte sectors. It’s a rather nice Seagate Expansion STBV3000100 with a whopping 3 TB of storage (current price: $119). I bought a new hard drive from the other day.
