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I am planning to get myself an external HDD. Is there any offering that you may be aware of with an option to open the contents in a default read-only mode (may be firmware based or physical switch), allowing write operations only after authenticating (may be like a password or physical switch), without having to install any driver/software in each computer I plug this into? Does encrypting give me the same facility? This is because I don't want to regret after plugging my HDD to an unknown PC possibly infected when I just want some data copied from disk to that PC. Thanks!

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    The floppy disks used to have a physical switch/lock if you remember!
    – Vineeth Bhaskara
    Commented Dec 20, 2016 at 9:26

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Doing a quick google search has lead me to this:

http://www.digitalintelligence.com/cart/ComputerForensicsProducts/3.5-Inch-USB3-Hard-Drive-Enclosure-WRITE-BLOCKER.html

It is a Hardware Write Blocker http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Write_Blockers

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