Seagate’s first customer to offer notebooks with the Momentus 5400.2 FDE drive is ASI, which will be offering the hard drives in its notebook models C8015 and C8015 The "Embassy Trust Suite" is marketed as "comprehensive security suite" and includes trusted client applications as well as remote IT management ; The "Embassy Security Center" provides TPM-based password vaults and key and password management ; the "Embassy Drive Manager" enables IT managers to manage FDE drives and enables "advanced DriveTrust" features. For example there are user level passwords that will unlock only the contents of the drive, while administrator level passwords enable access to features such as to securely wipe the data from the FDE drive in a single step. Wave representatives said that the features of the FDE drive and the DriveTrust software can serve as a "get out of jail free" card, as critical data is kept secure, even if a notebook gets lost or is stolen....

Seagate has a solution : its third-generation Momentus FDE (full disk encryption) internal drives and Maxtor BlackArmor portables use 128-bit AES encryption to automatically secure the contents of the entire drive. Enterprise-managed Momentus FDE drives (the type government agencies and Fortune 1000 businesses would deploy) features FIPS 197 validation too, but they’ve also been tested and accepted for use in U.S. national security systems by the super-secretive National Security Agency. “Having your laptop with you wherever you go is as common as having your wallet with you,” said Clark. “But n......

The 5400 FDE is the first drive to integrate hardware-based encryption of all data stored on the drive....

In the first quarter of 2007, Seagate will add a Drive Trust version of its 2.5" Momentus 5400 FDE notebook drive....

A similar technology has been offered for some time by Seagate in the Momentus FDE series....