Samsung announces Dell is the buyer
Samsung announced that it is shipping its first self-encrypting
solid-state disk (SSD) drives. Dell promptly introduced a suite of mobile
data security technologies for its Latitude line of laptops, with Samsung's
native drive encryption expected to be available in the next few
months.
Dell's press release told us that the drive, which is designed to
deliver some of the fastest encrypted storage available, offers customers eight
and a half times the shock tolerance versus standard notebook hard drives.
We
have seen full disk encryption as a standard feature on some desktop and laptop
hard disk drives, including Seagate's Momentus 5400 FDE.2 laptop
drive. However Samsung claims its SSD is the first to come with FDE. The
new drives come in 256GB, 128GB and 64GB capacities. They use AES encryption
along with management software from Wave Systems Corp.
Dell said the Samsung
drives add to the company's encryption technologies, which can be managed
remotely with the Wave Embassy Server.