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Momentus 5400 FDE.2: Data Encryption On-a-Drive

By Patrick Schmid published 11 December 2007

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Page 1: Seagate Puts the Locks on Momentus Hard Drives
Page 2: Why System Passwords Aren't Enough
Page 3: Seagate Momentus 5400 FDE.2 ST9169824AS-FDE
Page 4: Disk Encryption Practice
Page 5: Software: FinallySecure
Page 6: Emergency Recovery
Page 7: Test Setup
Page 8: Benchmark Results
Page 9: Read Transfer Rates
Page 10: PCMark05 Application Performance: Windows XP Startup
Page 11: I/O Performance
Page 12: Energy Consumption

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