Seagate, World leader in storage solution is announced that it will ship self encrypting hard drives. Currently Seagate offer this upto 320GB laptops and they are planning to launch it for 500GB laptops also. Additionally, Dell is now shipping a notebook with a 160GB self-encrypting hard drive. McAfee will provide the software for encrypting the hard drives.
Tom Major, vice president of the Personal Compute Business Unit at Seagate, Said
The new Momentus® FDE (full-disk encryption) notebook hard drives, 5400- and 7200-rpm models with capacities of up to a half-terabyte, deliver powerful protection to help guard against unauthorized access to information on lost or stolen notebook computers. Part of the Seagate Secure family of self-encrypting drives, the Momentus FDE drives feature government-grade encryption that delivers powerful security for confidential customer or corporate information on executive notebook computers, critical customer data on field sales and customer support notebook PCs, and sensitive information on personal notebooks. “Delivering easy-to-use notebook security that also is cost-effective requires leading partnerships and technologies, Seagate is pleased to be teaming with industry leaders to simplify security management for our customers and providing our OEM and channel customers with the world’s fastest self-encrypting hard drive.
The Latitude E6400/6500, E4300, E5400/ E5500, ATG and XFR, the Mobile Precision M6400, M4400, M2400, and Optiplex 960 are includes the PDE technology. According to Dell, laptops with the standard 5,400rpm 120GB drive added would add around $139 to the price
