> Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:58:29 +0900 > From: Michael Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [FDE] Why aren't the likes of IBM and Intel investing in? > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Seagate is the only company that offers FDE on notebook computers, at this > point in time. A P-ATA version has been available since last year. The > faster S-ATA version will be available in the March-May timeframe. We are > signing up channels now. Be sure you get the version that has strong > authentication software. Some OEM's will be offering it with a BIOS > password which, in my opinion, defeats the purpose of an FDE drive. > > -- > Regards > Michael >
Seagate is not the only company that offers the FDE capability on a notebook. Enova Technology www.enovatech.com and www.enovatech.net has done and continuously does real-time full disk encryption technology for the past 7 years. Beside, SATA drive isn't faster than the PATA drive. At the interface, SATA may seem to have advantage over using a PATA but the internal area density that governs the maximum read/write speed is the key. The rest relies on the size of memory buffer (cache) and the spindle speed. A SATA 3Gbit/sec drive isn't necessarily running faster than its 1.5Gbit/sec counterpart as the area density limits the write speed to below 60MB/sec. Read, however, may be enhanced through various caching techniques. There are perhaps more reasons that SATA overtakes PATA but mainly there are two: 1.) simple cable connection and 2.) Intel wants it to happen. Thanks, Robert _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
