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Seagate Debuts New Hard Drives with Built-In Encryption |
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Source: Newsfactor - Posted by Eric Lubow
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Seagate Technology will soon begin shipping its first hard drives with special encryption chips that will make it impossible to read data off the disk -- or even boot up a PC -- without some form of authentication Relevant Products/Services. The world's largest hard drive maker said its new DriveTrust Technology, which is designed to encrypt data stored on the hard drive automatically, will require users to have a key, or password, before being able to access the drive. The new Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (Full Disk Encryption 2), geared to notebook Relevant Products/Services computers, will come in several capacities, including 80 GB, 120 GB, and 160 GB. Seagate said it expects to ship the drives early next year.
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