Experiences with hardware-FDE laptop disks?

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Troels Arvin

Hello,

Does someone here have experiences with full-disk encrypting harddisks? -
I.e. where the disk performs the en/de-cryption and where the en/de-
cryption key/phrase is provided at boot-time, through a password prompt,
or other methods?

If so: Have you had trouble getting the disk and the laptop to work
together? How about price, performance, and stability? Any surprises?
 
Previously Troels Arvin said:
Hello,
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Does someone here have experiences with full-disk encrypting harddisks? -
I.e. where the disk performs the en/de-cryption and where the en/de-
cryption key/phrase is provided at boot-time, through a password prompt,
or other methods?
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If so: Have you had trouble getting the disk and the laptop to work
together? How about price, performance, and stability? Any surprises?
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I think you are a few months too early. The interface has just been
standardized, currently there will be a lot of problems and
incompatibilities.

Use seomthing like TrueCrypt if you are in a hurry.

Arno
 
Hello,

Does someone here have experiences with full-disk encrypting harddisks? -
I.e. where the disk performs the en/de-cryption and where the en/de-
cryption key/phrase is provided at boot-time, through a password prompt,
or other methods?

If so: Have you had trouble getting the disk and the laptop to work
together? How about price, performance, and stability? Any surprises?
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Troels,

If you are interested we can provide you with an evaluation Kit for
the Seagate FDE drives on Dell machines. We can supply you with 2
laptops on a thirty day trial for free. One laptop is a clasic client
set up with windows XP or Vista and you can fully exercise the drive
managment including deleting the Drive and re-installing. The second
Laptop is our enterprise managment software for centralized managment
of the Client and goes through all of the basics on how a drive is
controled and managed by an IT admin. This same set of tools is
operational today on Fujitsu, Toshiba, Samsung and Hitachi (opal) FDE
drives. The software is tested on Dell Lenovo, HP, Acer, Gateway,
NEC, Intel Whitebox and others. It is definately time to consider
moving all new PCs to FDE drives most sizes and speeds are fully
supported.

If you need more information go to www.wave.com

or feel free to send me an Email (e-mail address removed) and I can get
someone

thanks

Steven Sprague
CEO
Wave Systems Corp.
 
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