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Seagate Technology has announced that it is now shipping its Momentus 5400 FDE.2, an encrypting 2.5in hard drive for notebooks, to ASI Computer Technologies. The Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (Full Disc Encryption) hard drive offers up to 160GB of capacity, Serial ATA interface, and hardware-based AES encryption. The encrypting hard …

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  1. Gareth Lowe

    New?

    "Hardware-based encryption for notebook hard drive is new"

    No it isn't. You have been able to get hardware encrypted flagstone hard drives for ages and they meet government certification for classified use which I doubt the Seagate one does.

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  2. kain preacher

    IBM THINK PAD

    Um IBM think pad HDD has those now for the average joe

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    FDE and previous Hard Drives

    The Seagate Drive is essentially a NEW THING.

    One it is linked to a TPM so the key isn't sitting around to be grabbed.

    Two the encryption happens on the fly.

    Three the Wave software handles centralized key management with remote access

    Four The removal of the key creates an instant erase ability

    Five All this happens BEFORE boot-up so it doesn't involve theOS

    This SHOULD become a new standard in protection for Data at Rest.

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