June 08, 2005

Seagate's Drive Plans Include 500 GBs, Encryption

ExtremeTech reports that Seagate Technology unveiled its 2005 lineup on Wednesday, which takes drives to the half-terabyte level and introduces a product family that encrypts data.

    Seagate plans to enhance its Momentus lineup further with the Momentus FDE, a 2.5-inch drive with the capability to encrypt is data. Encrypting the information will make a stolen notebook less valuable to thieves, as well as preventing identity theft and the loss of sensitive corporate data, Pait said.

    The encryption scheme used will be a "4C" method, Pait said, apparently the one designed by 4C Entity LLC to allow data access only by the approved system, in much the same way digital music files may be restricted to certain playback devices.

Posted by volubis at June 8, 2005 02:13 PM