Dell Latitutude laptops sport Seagate's encryption HD marvel
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(InfoWorld) - Dell has become the latest and largest vendor to offer laptops featuring Seagate's full disk encryption hard drive, the 2.5 inch Momentus 5400 FDE.2. The drive was first announced after its extended gestation only last March, but that was inside laptops made by clone vendor ASI. Dell is to sell the high-security drives in its new Latitude D630 and D830 models from this week. TheÂ groundbreaking Momentus FDE.2Â -- for once this marketing clichÃ© is probably about right -- ranks as the first laptop hard drive integrating the technology to make it to the mass market. Although hard drive encryption is a common technology, the Momentus integrates the technology at hardware and drive firmware level, making it both transparent, extremely hard to crack, and because of built-in acceleration, faster than add-on encryption. In all other respects, from the user's point of view, the Momentus FDE.2 is a conventional hard drive which requires a master passphrase to be set for boot-up access. Dell is to sell the drive with the Embassy Trust Suite from software company Wave Systems, also promoted by Seagate during the drive's soft-launch in March. This allows IT admins to manage laptops using the drives, accessing such features as password recovery, and data backup of encrypted drives "Dell is at the forefront of notebook security because it ranks as a top concern for customers in an environment where more data is produced by an increasingly mobile work force," said Dell's Margaret Franco. "The industry-first solution we're announcing today adds to our multi-pronged approach to security that delivers an ironclad assurance of protection." Seagate and Dell hope that despite adding cost to a laptop -- not yet specified on the company website - businesses will jump at the chance of hard drive security in a way, thus far, they have not. Full disk encryption systems still have the reputation for being awkward to manage, difficult to use, and for slowing down the PC. Balanced against this will be the now-routine security scares caused by the loss of theft of laptops, containing important data that turned out as not-encrypted in any way. Seagate has produced a white paper, explaining the drive technology on its website. TechworldÂ is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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Right click â&gt; save-as this story. You've got the room Seagate is releasing a big fish into its Barracuda product stream, with the company's first foray into the 1TB disk drive market.â¦
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TAMPA, Fla., June 19  /PRNewswire/ -- Computers may have sensitive data that identity thieves would love to get their hands on. Magnets, degaussers, and other x-ray or magnetic techniques do not work, even the large bulk eraser magnets are not effective.
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Seagate Technology has started shipping a 400GB hard disk drive for PCs that offers performance closer to that of a 10,000-rpm drive than that of a 7,200 rpm.
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Portable hard drives from Apricorn, Logitech, and Microsoft use both fingerprint recognition and data encryption technologies.
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Hard drive manufacturer Seagate Technology is now shipping what it claims is the world&#39;s largest capacity hard drive holding a whopping 400Gb.
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Standing in the way of control Hard disk drive (HDD) giant Seagate Technology is to start flogging HDDs with built-in encryption chips in an attempt to secure sensitive data on home PCs.â¦
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InfoWorld - The first laptop computer to feature an HD DVD-R drive, Toshiba&#39;s Qosmio Q30, went on sale in Japan over the weekend.
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Solid-state drives are increasingly an option for laptop purchasers -- but while manufacturers are pushing the option, few consumers are taking the bait.
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A new laptop-protection system can automatically wipe hard disk data on machines taken from authorized locations.
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Seagate is a launching a pair of 1TB capacity disks with advanced power-saving technology.
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Blog: Seagate announces two drives with 1 terabyte of capacity, while Iomega expands its portable hard drive line.
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With a waterproof casing, this is a chunkier drive that comes in a serious-looking gray. Data is protected using 256-bit AES encryption. Any person trying to access files needs a password. After 10 unsuccessful password attempts (the default), the drive locks and can't be accessed without formatting the drive.
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(Source: Network Appliance)  Assessing the wide array of D2D options can be daunting. In this paper, we compare disk backup solutions and offer guidance for evaluating the different types of advanced data protection solutions, as well as guidance for identifying the solutions that will meet your needs.
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Solid state drives (SSDs) have moved another step closer to being a useful option for the enterprise, with Dell&#39;s announcement late last week of two new portable systems that will feature SSD as a storage option. The two new models are the ultramobile Latitude D430 notebook and the Precision M4300 mobile workstation.
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By Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 11--Computer-hardware makers keep churning out new laptop locks, and Marc Tobias keeps trying to crack them -- often with what he said is absurd ease.   His new victim: Targus' Defcon CL Armor Combo Cable Lock.
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The Barracuda 7200.8 series packs more data on the hard-drive platters.