According to the United States FBI, a notebook computer is stolen every 53 seconds and 97% are never recovered. Seagate has now announced ‘sweeping advances’ to help secure laptop information from theft or loss with self-encrypting notebook PC hard drives.
Seagate has introduced the new Momentus FDE (full-disk encryption) notebook hard drives with up to 320GB of capacity. McAfee is to provide the software for the enterprise-wide management of notebooks with Seagate Secure hard drives.
The Momentus FDE drives feature a fast Serial ATA interface and built-in AES encryption, an AES government-grade encryption used to encrypt all hard drive information transparently and automatically.
“Delivering easy-to-use notebook security that also is cost-effective requires leading partnerships and technologies,” said Tom Major, vice president of the Personal Compute Business Unit at Seagate.
“McAfee provides leading enterprise-class, powerful encryption and strong access control technologies,” said Tony Jennings, vice president Strategic Partnerships at McAfee. “By teaming with Seagate on its new encrypting Momentus drive, we are extending additional protection tools to our customers.”
The new 320GB Momentus laptop drives are now available in 5,400-rpm and 7,200-rpm models, with the 500GB model shipping early next year.
Link: Seagate
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