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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/seagater-cheetahr-drives-enter-new,340843.shtml

SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — RSA CONFERENCE — Seagate Technology today introduced a new breed of hard drive, the Cheetah(R) 15K.6 FDE (Full Disk Encryption) disc drive family, the world’s first self-encrypting hard drives for mission-critical servers and storage arrays. As part of the award-winning Cheetah family, the industry-standard in performance and reliability in data centers, the new Cheetah 15K.6 FDE hard drive now also encrypts data as well. And that encryption goes anywhere the hard drive goes — whether it is moved, stored, or retired.

“The data breaches widely reported in the media generally focus on stolen laptops and PCs, but people forget about the staggering amount of information leaving the data center daily,” said Sherman Black, senior vice president and general manager, Seagate Enterprise Compute Business. “Equipment and systems with hard drives inside are continuously being retired, relocated or repaired and there’s often little thought given to properly disposing of the data they contain before they leave the data center. A recent investigation showed that 50% of the drives returned for servicing by customers contained readable sectors. If you assume that an average system’s lifecycle is three to five years that suggests that more than 50 thousand enterprise drives are leaving data centers daily worldwide. If only half of those hard drives are readable, that’s at least 2,500TB per day of exposed data available in the open market. The increasing flow of exposed sensitive data ought to be a serious concern to CIO’s everywhere.”

Very cool, giving the end user options for data encryption could be ideal, particularly in those small satelite sites, where we might have a server and a few laptops/pcs. Being able to have secured hard drives in the box could give the extra element of security some companies might need.

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