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Self-Encrypting Drives from Seagate


Self-Encrypting Drives from Seagate, Savvio™ 15K.2, Savvio 10K.3, Constellation™, Cheetah™ 15K.7
Seagate adds the Seagate Secure™ Self-Encrypting Drive option to its hard drives which includes Savvio™ 15K.2, Savvio 10K.3, Constellation™ and Cheetah™ 15K.7 drives. These enterprise-class products are an extension of Seagate’s first-to-market leadership with Seagate Secure Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) technology, designed to deliver data-at-rest security for servers and storage systems.


Intel and LSI’s local key management and 6Gb/s SAS technology with TCG-based security technology within their controllers and server solutions that seamlessly with Seagate SEDs.

Data-at-rest security using Seagate SEDs provides a range of benefits for protecting an enterprise system’s information when compared to other software and hardware encryption tools. Among them are:

Performance — The encryption engine matches the full interface speed of the drive and therefore drive performance does not suffer. And because each individual drive contains its own encryption engine, there are no bandwidth issues with scalability as your security and storage needs grow with more drives added to the system.

Compatibility — Drive-level full disk encryption (FDE) technology is supported by the security protocol developed through the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), an organization consisting of membership of more than 50 participating companies, including all hard drive manufacturers. Key management standards to insure interoperability are being established via the IEEE 1619.3. All major storage system providers are participating in IEEE 1619.3.

Manageability — Transparent to end user and storage systems, SEDs scale linearly with no bottlenecks or single points of failure. The IT user does not need to escrow the encryption key to maintain data recoverability because the encryption key is held in the drive. This frees the storage administrator from having to schedule and conduct this performance-throttling activity.
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