Seagate Presented The Super Hard Disk Drive
Seagate unveiled the world's most secure hard drive in a laptop from system vendor ASI Computer Technologies.
The ground-breaking 2.5 inch Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (full disk encryption) has had a long and winding gestation, but is now set to be put on sale at the end of March in a real laptop, ASI's C8015+, costing $2,150.
The drive will be the 80GB version, but 100GB, 120GB and 160GB versions are waiting in the wings, all based on a 3Gb/sec SATA interface and spinning at 5400 RPM.
The drives themselves can be managed in a structured way by setting security policies, adding and deleting user accounts, enabling remote management, and carrying out conformance checking and logging.
"It is longer than five years that we've known that security in storage was going to be necessary," said Seagate's notebook marketing manager, Joni Clark. "This product has been in development for two years and the technology for five years or more," she said.
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