Seagate Technology has been working on delivering a laptop hard drive with built-in hardware encryption for a couple of years, but now the technology is finally hitting the streets, the company announced Monday. Seagate’s new Momentus 5400 FDE.2 uses a government-grade security protocol to encrypt all hard drive information transparently and automatically, without the CPU performance hit that comes with most software-based encryption solutions. The laptop drive is aimed squarely at making it easier for enterprise and governments to manage sensitive data.
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Seagate Toughens Security With Encrypted Notebook Drive
Posted by: Chris Maxcer March 12, 2007 11:57 AMSeagate Technology has been working on delivering a laptop hard drive with built-in hardware encryption for a couple of years, but now the technology is finally hitting the streets, the company announced Monday. Seagate’s new Momentus 5400 FDE.2 uses a government-grade security protocol to encrypt all hard drive information transparently and automatically, without the CPU performance hit that comes with most software-based encryption solutions. The laptop drive is aimed squarely at making it easier for enterprise and governments to manage sensitive data.