truecrypt

[CapitalG]

im thinking about using truecrypt to lock down my secondary hard drives. does anyone have thoughts on how well this software works?

[psg]

TrueCrypt is the best, in my opinion, cross-platform encryption software.
Easy to use and fast.
Just take a look at the documentation (http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/), specially the "Creating New Volumes" chapter.

[Garvan]

TrueCrypt is the only encryption software I use - free, reliable and fast. dm-crypt LUKS is an alternative, and support is built into most Linux kernels, but there is has a very steep learning curve for end users and this has kept me from trying it. eCryptfs and EncFS are both slow.

TrueCrypt is an easy choice.

Garvan

PS. If your external hard drive is formatted in fat32, read the TrueCrypt documentation carefully and pick the correct options because your max file size is limited to 4GB.