Hard-drive protection from Seagate

As I was saying earlier Seagate was developing a hardware encrypted hard-disk to provide extended security. It seems the technology is now ready and the first hard-drive to use it is The Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (Full Disc Encryption) that provides up to 160 GB of storage via a sATA interface protected by hardware-based AES encryption.

The new hard-drives are supposed to be part of the new ASI C8015 system from ASI Computer Technologies. We’re talking about a laptop fitted with a biometric fingerprint reader and other security features like the Wave Systems Embassy Security Center’s Trusted Drive Manager software used for easily configuration of the Momentus 5400 hard-drive.

The whole system is design in order for Administrators to easily protect data, or delete it in such manner that it cannot be recovered. You might not need all this in your regular home-use laptop but there are many users in industries like finance, legal or healthcare that will be happy to pay the price needed to provide ultimate protection for they’re data.

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Posted in Hardware, Reviews by Bogdan Popa