Seagate ships first TPM hard drives

Scotts Valley (CA) - Seagate today said it has begun shipping its first hard drives equipped with a trusted platform module (TPM) and DriveTrust technology. The drives aim to increase data security, making it much more difficult for unauthorized users to access data on computers.

Seagate's first customer to offer notebooks with the Momentus 5400.2 FDE drive is ASI, which will be offering the hard drives in its notebook models C8015 and C8015+. According to Seagate, the Momentus drive encrypts data automatically with AES 128-bit keys and allows access to stored content only through pre-boot authentication.

Wave representatives said that the features of the FDE drive and the DriveTrust software can serve as a "get out of jail free" card, as critical data is kept secure, even if a notebook gets lost or is stolen.

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