I fail to see how the "erase data on power off" could be useful in laptops. There just seem to be too many risks of accidental/unexpected power loss there for the security to outweigh the potentially huge inconvenience. Maybe they would work in enterprise servers that use 2.5" disks that are backed up by UPSs and generators, but even then I'd worry that my data is only as persistent as my power source.
Following the commercial success (and technical disappointment) of the original Wildfire -- which featured a miserly 528MHz CPU and QVGA display -- HTC has returned with the Wildfire S.
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I fail to see how the "erase data on power off" could be useful in laptops. There just seem to be too many risks of accidental/unexpected power loss there for the security to outweigh the potentially huge inconvenience. Maybe they would work in enterprise servers that use 2.5" disks that are backed up by UPSs and generators, but even then I'd worry that my data is only as persistent as my power source.