Seagate announced that they will be offering a new line of encrypted drive's using the new DriveTrust Technology. They will initially offer the Momentus line of drives. They will produce the Momentus 5400 FDE.2, which is a 2.5 inch drive that will be available for laptops.
This new line will be available as a 5400rpm drive at 40GB, 80GB, 120GB. They will have the same performance as the drives without the encryption technology. They claim it will be as easy to use as the drives without the DriveTrust technology.
It will be able to protect the whole drive and not just the selected partitions or files.
Seagates new encryption technology will operate independently from the hard drive itself and won't degrade the performance of the drive.
This should be some interesting technology for businesses where there employee's use laptops especially in the financial and govermental sectors where data theft seems to be the norm. It will be interesting to see the actual performance data from the drives. The other interesting thing about this new technology is how it will play with Vista's new BitLocking technology and if you can double encrypt your data without file corruption and performance degragation.
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