[FDE] Dell Notebooks now shipping with Seagate FDE

[Scott S]

Hi Derrick,

In essence, the processing required to encrypt and decrypt is done by the hard drive itself instead of the motherboard CPU, thus enhancing the overall performance of the computer.

This kind of things, where there is a software and hardware solution, is common is number of areas like RAID systems, Video processing, and Network management. 
It all situations it is a trade-off of performance, stability, simplity, and cost. If there are no trade-offs, then you will see one solution dominate the other.

Scott

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, derrick at bioslimdisk.com wrote:

> You still need a software for the PIN to create an encryption key am I
> correct? So whats the difference between a software-base FDE and
> seagates momentus hardware-based?
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> Derrick Heng
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> Zac Folini wrote:
>> You can now purchase a Dell Notebooks (D830 and D630) with Seagate's Fully Encrypted Drives. They even include the software (Wavesys) to manage the drives.
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>> http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/latit?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz
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