Protected by Seagate

October 30th, 2006

Seagate is planning to release this week a new technology to come in the aid of those who need to secure their data. The new system is called DriveTrust and will run as firmware, using its own ‘invisible’ partition that cannot be accessed by the operating system or by the user, this software is also not going to affect in any way the overall performance of the HDD.

This kind of data lock-up comes as a response of increasing data theft on devices such as laptops, that contain confidential data that has to remain private. DriveTrust uses a multi layer protection so that if one layer of protection is broken others take its place (you can use full HDD encryption, password protection thumbprint and smartcard options for multi-factoral self-authentication) besides that there will be a quick erase function so you can permanently destroy data in a hurry if it comes to it.

Seagate currently offers DriveTrust on the DB35 series, which are 3.5 inch HDDs for digital video recorders (DVRs) and other digital entertainment devices. And that’s not all, Seagate plans to make the code public so we can expect some real competition from giants like Toshiba, Western Digital or Hitachi.

This comes as a great help to those in need to secure the data on laptops and other vulnerable storage devices and all this at affordable prices (at least that’s what they say for now).