WOMBATS Shield
Shield Vault · For prosumers & travellers

Encrypted storage. Backups for every computer. A travel router in one box.

Shield Vault is everything in Shield Edge, plus an encrypted internal SSD, Time Machine support for Macs, a recycle bin for accidentally deleted files, and a Vault‑only Wi‑Fi access point you can take on holiday.

$749$939Founding price

Free AU/NZ dispatch · GST inclusive · 30-day return · International by Express courier.

Shield Vault storage and encryption settings.
If WOMBATS ceased to exist tomorrow, your Shield would keep working. Most products in this category cannot make that claim.
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A long weekend with Shield Vault

Friday night, the family Mac runs its first full Time Machine backup onto Shield's encrypted SSD. Saturday morning, you accidentally delete a folder of photos and recover them from the recycle bin a minute later. Sunday, you pack up for a week away, Shield Vault comes with you, runs on hotel Ethernet, and broadcasts a calm filtered Wi‑Fi network for the family. None of this needs a cloud account.

Everything in Shield Edge

Vault starts where Edge leaves off, Core protection plus SMB sharing, Jellyfin direct play and DLNA. See Shield Edge for that part of the story.

What Shield Vault adds

Encrypted internal storage

A 256 GB SSD on board, encrypted at rest. The auto-unlock key is bound to the device through an ATECC secure element, independent of your passphrase and recovery key. Lift the SSD into another machine and it stays dark.

Time Machine for Macs

Vault is a calm, local Time Machine target. Backups stay on your network and never leave the property.

Recycle bin

When something is accidentally deleted, the recycle bin keeps a copy. A small thing that saves a bad day.

Vault Wi‑Fi access point

Pack Vault for travel, plug it into hotel Ethernet, and broadcast your own calm, filtered Wi‑Fi for your devices.

256 GB included; 1 TB / 2 TB / 4 TB upgrades

Choose the size you want during fulfilment. We confirm by email and build to spec, by hand during the founding batch.

Separate payload & storage partitions

The encrypted system partition that runs Shield is separate from the encrypted partition that holds your files.

It does not inspect your traffic to sell you to anyone. It does not need to.
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Capacity guidance

Shield Vault is comfortable with 15–25 browsing devices, around 3 combined direct‑play streams, 1–2 Time Machine backups, 2 SMB file transfers and 15–25 connected Wi‑Fi AP devices at the same time. These are comfort targets, not benchmark maxima, first full Time Machine backups should be staggered, and ideally done in home mode rather than over the Vault Wi‑Fi AP.

Founding Edition

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Founding price locked in for life. No subscriptions.

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