Seagate Intros Self-encrypting Hard Drives

[MrMick]

A notebook computer is stolen every 52 seconds, according to statistics compiled by the FBI; 97 percent of them are never recovered. How much sensitive personal information is stored on your machine? Is it encrypted? Probably not.

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[joex444]

Odd, Fujitsu just announced a 500GB model with 256bit encryption today. It didn't explicity say it was using AES, but I would assume that it would be.

 

[smalltime0]

Should help the britsh government with their data theft...

 

[Shadow703793]

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[Shadow703793]

sorry about the last post. Mods delete it. Should help governments and corporations with foiling data theft.

 

[Darkk]

I don't know why Seagate even bothers with it. They need to stick to what they do best is make damn good hard drives and leave the encryption stuff to the other folks like PGP and TrueCrypt.

Dell have tried this approach before with their certain line of laptops with hardware encryption but it never caught on simply because people don't know how to use it or even know it's there.