There’s security and then there’s near-impenetrable security. The sleek and sexy Maxtor BlackArmor takes the prize as the Fort Knox of the storage world, as the first external hard drive to back up and secure your data using Seagate’s DriveTrust hardware encryption.

If you’re wondering about the thoroughness of the government-grade AES protection, how’s this for a kicker? If you somehow lose or forget your password, you’ll have to perform a “secure erase” to wipe the drive clean in order to gain access. That’s hardcore security for only $149.