Seagate announced first manufacturer to use its hard drive with encryption

ASI Computer Technologies had been selected by Seagate to be the first computer manufacturer to ship computers equipped with Seagate’s hard disk drive with encryption technology. The Fremont, California-based computer company will be rolling out its ASI C8015 model starting next month to a number of its partners including Newegg.com, PowerNotebooks.com and ZipZoomfly.com.

The Seagate drives are equipped with the company’s new “DriveTrust” technology, which the company promotes as a simpler way to safeguard data stored on laptops. The encryption technology is designed to make life tougher for computer thieves and to prevent embarrassing breaches.

More deals with other worldwide major computer manufacturers are also in the making and should be announced soon. The latest Seagate’s Momentus 5400 FDE.2 offers up to 160GB of capacity, a Serial ATA interface, and hardware-based Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption.

Read [ZDNet]