Seagate starts shipping self-encrypting enterprise HDDs

Trying to keep the hard drive crown, Seagate has now begun to provide the Secure Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option for its enterprise line-up which includes the Savvio 15K.2, Savvio 10K.3, Constellation and Cheetah 15K.7 HDDs. This move enables Seagate's customers to choose from a wide variety of drives that offer automatic data-at-rest security for their servers and storage systems.

"Self-Encrypting Drives are one of the easiest, most cost-effective security measures companies can implement," said Eric Ouellet, vice president at Gartner. "The use of SEDs provides businesses with complete data-at-rest protection against information breaches that can occur in drives and systems that have been repurposed, decommissioned, disposed of, sent for repair, misplaced or stolen. Because all disk media eventually leaves a company's control, the use of SEDs ensures that data is protected at these critical stages of a system’s life cycle."