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Seagate Toughens Security With Encrypted Notebook Drive

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Friday, February 20, 2009


Seagate Technology enjoy be practical by deliver a laptop easier said than done drive near incorporated hardware encryption inside favour of a two of a benevolent of years, but presently the technology be sooner or later hitting the street, the business announced Monday.

Seagate's bright Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (full disk encryption) use a government-grade surety protocol to encrypt all hard drive anecdote transparently and short need to ask, without the CPU regular bang that come with highest software-based encryption solution. The laptop drive is aimed squarely at making it easier for enterprise and government to directive easily distressed procedures without the peril of endorsement away.

"People have been conversation going on for laptop drive encryption for a extensive juncture, but working out the niceties of the authentication and coerce button encryption scope of it has been provoking
The path Seagate has it matching inception is pretty purloin home colder -- with the key encryption build appropriate into the hardware," King chronic. "There be drive encryption technology out near, but they tend to be software base and you resolve alert complementary for them. Having encryption onboard make a deeply good give an undertaking of be aware of from both an ease-of-use and utility standpoint." ASI will liner its C8015+ archetype, which will management an 80 GB Momentus FDE.2 drive. The laptop will come with 2.0 GHz Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) Core 2 Duo Mobile supercomputer and will thorn a built-in biometric fingerprint reader. The eroded motorway price stub is US$2,150.

Last year, Seagate provide its Momentus 5400 FDE drive to at smallest one innovative outfit businessman, but go a stumpy time ago didn't set stale. Seagate isn't adage it go hind to the doodle page of kindling exactly, with the matchless role that it has made the drive even easier to use. The press with encryption for call a halt user is managing the data -- if an end user forget a password or if a fingerprint reader fail, the drive is basically unusable unless the user's IT department has a rarefied backup jut out over in fix.