Seagate ships hard drives with encryption
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Seagate Technology on Monday plans to announce the first manufacturer to sell laptop PCs with Seagate’s new hard drive that has built-in encryption technology. Fremont, Calif.-based ASI Computer Technologies will start selling computers equipped with Seagate’s Momentus 5400 FDE.2 drive next month
The Momentus 5400 FDE.2 offers up to 160GB of capacity, a Serial ATA interface, and hardware-based Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption, according to Seagate. ASI will ship its laptop with Wave Systems’ management software to simplify enterprise use of the computers, it said.
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