To set this thing up, all you need to do is plug-in the power and Ethernet and dock a Seagate FreeAgent Go portable hard drive. Wait a few seconds for the little light to turn green – which tells you that the dock is connected to the Internet – and then navigate to this activation website. The website asks you a couple quick questions and then the device is activated. From there, it’s simply another Pogoplug device.

Well, what’s Pogoplug, Matt? I’m glad you asked, friend. It’s a service that allows you to easily share locally-stored info online. This dock turns a Seagate FreeAgent Go external hard drive or flash drive into a NAS that also has access to the Pogoplug service. Seagate has included one year’s worth of service with the device, but after that trial is up, you will be required to pay $30 a year to use the service. (keep reading, more on this farther down)

Read our review or watch the two demo videos on Pogoplug’s site for a good run down of the service. I found it easy to use and thorough. In fact, I think it’s the easiest way to share local content online either through a direct URL, email, iPhone app, RSS feeds or through social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace. There is even an option to send out a notification when files have been added or removed.

Here’s the downside though: The Dockstar must use the Pogoplug service even though the retail box states something different. The box states, “Files on your home network may be accessed by devices on the same network without subscribing to Pogoplug service” but Seagate’s chat support disagrees and I can’t figure it out either. If the drive is removed from the Pogoplug service, it doesn’t show up on the local network.

It’s kind of crazy that the dock doesn’t act like a NAS without subscribing to the service anyway. It’s such a simple ability to leave out. Sure, once Pogoplug knows your device, it’s available as a network share, but that seems hokey to me. It should be the other way around.

Here’s the main problem though, this dock doesn’t offer nearly enough benefits over the standalone Pogoplug device. For the same upfront cost of $99, you get the same exact Pogoplug service as the Seagate DockStar offers expect there isn’t a subscription free. Plus, you could use the same exact Seagate FreeAgent Go hard drives with the Pogoplug device because they are USB-powered or any other USB drive for that matter. The DockStar does have three more USB ports (2 rear, 1 side) but that isn’t nearly enough to compensate for the $30-per-each-additional-year fee that the dock requires.

Now, if the DockStar could be used as a standalone NAS and the Pogoplug service is just an added benefit, my conclusion might be something different. Consider this an open invitation to Seagate to show me how to use this device without subscribing to an online service. Until then, I cannot see a single reason to buy the DockStar over the standalone Pogoplug model.

The Seagate FreeAgent Go is a 1TB, USB-powered hard drive that works. What more do you wanna know?

I just got the 1TB FreeAgent Go Portable Drive from Seagate and I’m impressed. First off, it’s not that large. I mean, it’s sort-of bulky compared to Seagate’s smaller FreeAgent Go drives, but it’s manageable. The drive is just a tad less-thick than the width of a SD card. It has a good amount of weight too it and feels solidly constructed. I like it.

The extra bulk comes from the larger hard drive that Seagate stuffed into this thing. Don’t expect to rip it out and fit it in your notebook.

The drive came loaded with some autorun software, but I deleted it. Sorry. I hate autorun bullshit on portable drives. Just let me access the file system already.

The good news is that this sucker is fast even though it’s only powered by USB. I transferred a 1.1GB file in less than 10 seconds, which is plenty fast in my book. I’m sure you could probably get a Firewire 800 drive to do it a bit quicker, but I’m fine with the 45~ MB/s throughput of the drive. Personally, I would much rather have a slower drive that doesn’t require a power brick than a faster drive that requires extra cables to run. Maybe if I was in a studio setting I would have a different opinion.

So in summery, it’s a 1TB, USB-powered hard drive that works. Oh, and it can be had for around $230 online. Anything else? If not, check back later today for looks at the FreeAgent DockStar and FreeAgent Theater+.

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Number one, of course, in the “First To Reach 6Gb/s Transfer Speed In a 2TB Desktop SATA Hard Drive” contest.

And so we have the Seagate Barracuda XT, a 2TB SATA hard drive with a maximum transfer speed of 6Gb/s – double the previous maximum transfer speed. It’s got 64MB of cache, a 7200 RPM spindle speed, and is backwards-compatible with 3Gb/s controller interfaces.

Shipping out now, should be available soon-ish for $299. I can’t find it available for purchase anywhere online yet but it is indeed shipping.

Full press release:

Seagate Ships World’s Fastest Desktop Hard Drive; First Drive to Feature Serial ATA 6Gbit/Second Technology

Seagate Barracuda XT, the world’s fastest desktop hard drive featuring the blazing fast Serial ATA 6Gb/s interface. (PRNewsFoto/Seagate)

SCOTTS VALLEY, CA UNITED STATES

Seagate Teams With Technology Leaders to Bring SATA 6Gbit/s Complete Solutions to Market

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Seagate Technology (Nasdaq: STX) today began global shipments of the world’s fastest, largest-capacity mainstream desktop hard drive – Barracuda(R) XT, a 7200RPM product featuring 2TB of storage capacity and a blazing fast Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second interface. The 3.5-inch desktop drive, the industry’s first to feature a SATA 6Gb/s interface, meets the capacity demands of gaming, digital video-environments and other storage-hungry desktop computing applications while delivering the highest performance in its class.

The introduction of the Barracuda XT drive marks the shift to the next generation of desktop computing speed as Seagate doubles the storage bandwidth of current computers.

“Capacity and performance remain the defining attributes of hard drives for PC gamers, digital multimedia content developers and many other customers requiring high-end systems at home and in the office,” said Dave Mosley, executive vice president of Sales and Marketing at Seagate. “Seagate is meeting these requirements with the first 7200RPM desktop hard drive to combine 2TB of storage capacity with the fastest Serial ATA interface to date.”

The Barracuda XT product, a four-platter drive featuring an areal density of 368 Gigabits per square inch, delivers the highest performance – burst speeds of up to 6 Gigabits per second – for all PC applications, maintains backward compatibility with the SATA 3Gb/second and SATA 1.5Gb/second interfaces, and uses the same cables and connectors as previous SATA generations to ease integration. The hard drive’s SATA 6Gb/s interface enables system builders using SATA 6Gb/s drive controllers to build high-performance desktop PCs, full-tilt gaming rigs, and home and small business servers, and its 64MB cache optimizes burst performance and data transfer speeds.

“Marvell is pleased to be announcing the industry’s first commercially available SATA 6Gb/s solution and working with Seagate to introduce this technology,” said Dr. Alan J. Armstrong, vice president of Marketing, Business Storage Group at Marvell. “Marvell has been working with a broad group of partners and customers to bring this solution to market. As early adopters of Marvell’s SATA 6Gb/s technology, both ASUS and GIGABYTE offer motherboards to complement SATA 6Gb/s hard drives.”

The Serial ATA 6Gb/s Solution: Barracuda XT Drives and Motherboards from ASUS and GIGABYTE

With Barracuda XT drives and SATA 6Gb/s motherboards from ASUS and Gigabyte, computer makers can build the highest-performance PCs, workstations and entry-level servers. ASUS was first to market with a SATA 6Gb/s motherboard; the company’s P7P55D Premium began shipping in August. The new GIGABYTE P55 series GA-P55-Extreme motherboards are also now shipping.

“At ASUS, we are once again at the forefront of innovation by being the first to launch a native SATA 6Gb/s interface on a motherboard,” said Joe Hsieh, corporate vice president & general manager, Motherboard Business Unit & Desktop Business Unit, ASUS. “An expansion bridge integrated into the P7P55D Premium helps achieve real SATA 6Gb/s throughput to support bandwidth-hungry applications. The ASUS solution eliminates transmission bottlenecks in current technology and ensures users truly enjoy faster data speeds and double the storage bandwidth. For other P7P55D Series models, ASUS also provides an expansion card to achieve the same results.”

“GIGABYTE has worked closely with our partners Seagate and Marvell in making the highly anticipated SATA 6Gb/s technology a reality,” said Tony Liao, associate vice president of Marketing at GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. “As the leader in motherboard innovation, GIGABYTE is always excited to bring the very latest technologies to market, and with the release of the world’s first SATA 6Gb/s hard drive from Seagate, our customers’ expectations will be blown away with double-the-bandwidth performance for lightning-fast data transfer and storage.”

Seagate to Demonstrate Serial ATA 6Gb/s Technology at IDF

Seagate will demonstrate SATA 6Gb/s technology with technology partners at the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) booth, #425, at IDF, September 22 – 24 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

Yet another possible glitch affecting the MacBook Pro, this time having to do with “strange clicking and beeping noises.” It seems that several people with the 7200 RPM hard drive (the Seagate Momentus 7200.4) have reported those “clicking” issues, as well as general performance issues. Can’t have that.

Apple hasn’t addressed the issue, and trips to the Apple Store to fix the problem haven’t quite worked out. Other World Computing—they sell Mac stuff—says the problem could be caused by the Seagate hard drive’s “G Fore” technology, which could be conflicting with the MacBook Pro’s built-in anti-shock protection. As a result, the hard drive may well be spinning up and down frequently, thus reducing performance and quite possibly shortening the life of the drive itself.

Solutions? 1) Deal with it. 2) Get a different hard drive, one without G Force. 3) Spend even more money and get a solid state drive.

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So, the FreeAgent Go Drive ditches the FireWire port in favor of a USB 2.0 interface. A 250GB drive will cost you $100, a 320GB for $120 and $150 for a 500GB drive.

The Go Pro sports a FireWire 800 or 400 connections. The 250GB goes for $130 while the 320GB and 500GB retail for $150 and $190, respectively.

The 2TB FreeAgent Desk is the same as before but with extra storage. It will retail for $340.

What I thought was the best part of this announcement is the Go Dock+. The old FreeAgent Dock for FreeAgent drives has been updated with three USB ports turning it into a USB hub. It’s kind of cool if you have a FreeAgent drive and retails for $40.

Seagate FreeAgent

Step 1. Plug in Replica (Multi-PC 500GB or Single PC 250GB).
Step 2. Click yes to all the licensing stuff and terms of service BS.
Step 3. Walk away.

Short review, huh? Well, Seagate managed to make a simple to use backup utility device for the PC that has a “set it and forget it” mantra. Plug it in once and everything gets dumped over to the Replica and subsequently backs itself up when something happens. It’s kind of like Apple’s Time Machine, but for a PC and not as pretty looking. It works though and that’s the point.

The Single PC version will be available for $130 while the Multi-PC version will retail for $200.

Spec Sheet

Replica

Quick Version: In short, the FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player Solution from Seagate was made for a caveman if cavemen been around in 1999 when people actually used the DivX codec and only used Windows machines. Not to be completely unfair, but if you’re an avid reader of CrunchGear or a savvy BitTorrenter then this definitely isn’t what you’re looking for.

Extended Version: That being said, the FreeAgent Theater might be for the consumer who is just getting into converting their own DVD collection, and who also wants to share photos and music. Anything beyond that and you’re going to want to opt for something else like the Western Digital WD TV HD Media Player.

Codec Support

This is where the FreeAgent really struggles compared to its competition from Western Digital. Who uses MPEG-1? And as Carlos Nicholas noted, what product coming out in 2009 doesn’t support mp4?

Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (AVI/VOB/ISO), MPEG-4 (AVI/DivX /Xvid)

Subtitles: SAMI(smi), SRT and SUB

Video resolutions: NTSC 480i/480p; PAL 576i/576p, supports video (HD and upscaling) up to 720p/1080i*

Audio: MP3, AC3 (5.1 audio – Dolby® Digital) WMA, WAV, OGG

Photo: JPEG files up to 20 megapixels

* supports MPEG-4, Xvid up to 1280 x 720 60fps and supports MPEG-2 and photos up to 1920 x 1080i 30 fps

Software

The one shining star for the FA is its UI, and it looks like a clone of the AppleTV. It’s easy to navigate and even a caveman could it. Because the FreeAgent software only works on Windows machines I just dropped a couple files onto a thumb drive rather than using the 250GB FreeAgent Go external. It’s locked down for starters and I’m not about to reformat it because I will update this review when I’ve had a chance to load content via Windows.

There are separate media folders for video, music and photos, but any file that isn’t supported will get dumped into every category. You can see this in the video with the latest Yeah Yeah Yeahs album. The m4a files aren’t recognized but the folder is.

Hardware

Seagate boasts HD playback on the FreeAgent but it lacks an HDMI output and only plays back 720p if it’s the correct codec. I’m of the mindset that when you say something plays back HD video then it should be 1080p. I know 720p is HD, but it’s not full HD.

As I noted in my video, the FreeAgent chorks itself to death when switching video output to anything other than SD when connected over Composite. You have to connect over Component to fix the problem, but if you want audio you have to jump back to Composite. It’s a lose-lose situation.

Conclusion: I can’t be bothered with listing the pros and cons of the FreeAgent Theater. It’s pretty obvious that this was made for a luddite. Assuming the hardware can support modern day codecs with a firmware update, I’d refrain from buying this thing from Seagate. It’s overpriced for what it is compared to the Western Digital WD TV.

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Newegg has the 1TB drive for $80 and the 1.5TB drive for $115. You do need to use coupon codes though. Use EMCLRNM28 for the 1TB drive and EMCLRNM27 for the 1.5TB drive. Nice, eh? I think I might pick one up myself.

What sets Seagate’s new drives apart is that they have lower power consumption at 7200RPM (5W) then many other drives have while idling. Combine that with a massive data transfer rate of 140 MB/s and you’ve got a truly uncompromising hard drive.

Available in 250 GB, 500 GB, and 1 TB sizes, they’ve pretty much covered the spectrum that most users shop in. No word at this time on pricing or availability, but I’m sure it’ll be “pretty expensive” and “real soon now”.

[via Tom's Hardware]

Seagate manager Pete Steege tried to store his Seagate Go 320GB hard drive in ice for 100 days in order to prove that Seagate drives can withstand all manner of torture. Sadly, it didn’t quite make it. When he cut the drive out of his ice rink (!!) he cut the bag which wet the drive.

Plugging it in resulted in a device failure and absolute proof that you shouldn’t drop your drives into freezing pond in early November.

Newegg has a pretty good deal on a 1.5TB external hard drive. The Seagate FreeAgent costs $119, features a 7200 rpm drive, connects via USB, and includes free shipping (the deal ends today). Reviews have been mixed as this drive apparently had some problems early on, although it appears that the kinks have been worked out thanks to new firmware.

Seagate FreeAgent [Newegg.com]

Each device can be configured into a RAID style setup, which provides additional data security, however it does reduce the available space on the NAS. The device also provides for customizable backup solutions, including individual user accounts and password protection.

Available in May 2009, the devices will be available at your favorite retailer starting at $799 for the 2TB version.

If this upcoming spec becomes reality, we should see some real fast drives. The revision allows for up to 6 GB/s in bursts which is lightning fast compared to the current 3GB/s spec. We hear that an actual retail launch is still on the books for this year, so you may want to start saving your pennies. That is, of course, you still want a Seagate drive after all the issues the company had last year.

They’ve now released a new fix, which should get things going again for those of you with faulty 1TB and 1.5TB drives. Anybody out there have the issue and want to report in on the fix’s efficacy?

This quarter is much different from last quarter, which was no great shakes but showed stronger sales and a nearly break-even situation. Seagate also had a few one-off costs like a tax reassessment of some kind, which cost them over a quarter-billion dollars. That doesn’t happen every quarter. So despite being hammered along with everyone else, and having a famously faulty product on the market at the moment, I’d say Seagate is actually relatively healthy. They blame the same closet full of bogeymen as the other companies, and that’s probably accurate.

Read the whole report here, it’s way too long to paste in.

Looks like Seagate is being dashed on the rocks by the worldwide financial gale as much as anyone else. In addition to cutting nearly 3000 jobs, they’re changing course by giving their CEO the boot.

Not only are sales down, but their flagship line of hard drives has been plagued with failures (including this bargain drive, which I urge you not to buy at the moment). And just lately the failures have been revealed to span not just the 1.5TB HDDs, but the perhaps more common 1TB ones. The failures after only a few months of use, described by the Inquirer as “a new self-bricking feature,” are actually not hardware-related. Faulty firmware just locks the thing up, and RMA centers are reporting 30-40% return rates, which probably means that at least half the drives are failing.

As with NVIDIA and probably every other hardware manufacturer, this sort of failure is not a reflection of the ability of the company to deliver a good product — I’m running my PC on a Seagate right now and have for a year and a half — but is rather an indication of a single poor batch of devices, which should be avoided no matter your opinion of the company. It happens to everybody at some time or another — except Intel.

No matter how you feel about Seagate’s reliability, you have to admit that this is a heck of a deal. For only $129, you get a 1.5TB drive with a 32MB buffer. What a steal! Better hurry, these Amazon deals usually don’t hang around that long.

Update: These drives are among the faulty ones… don’t buy, or return if you did. Or try the firmware update suggested by commenter Anthony below.

When will companies learn that if you treat people badly, it will appear all over the Internet? According to this chat transcript between a Seagate hard drive owner and an online tech, Seagate has an interesting warranty policy that states the advertised one-year warranty doesn’t start when the drive is purchased, rather when it left the factory. So if the drive sat on retailer’s shelves for four months, the purchaser would only have eight months left to claim the warranty. 

 

• Brandon R.: You have a one year warranty for the time the retailer gets the drive. That is what is covered by our warranty policy. Any extended warranty from that point will be covered by the retailer
• Chad Miller: How can one possibly know when the retailer got the drive? Do you timestamp the box?
• Chad Miller: If i’m in a store and see a Maxtor/Seagate box, I have to find out when they shipped it to the store?
• Brandon R.: The warranty is tied with the serial number, so when we ship the drive out from the assembly plant it is entered into our system. It also makes a difference on who buys the drive, retailers. Different drives will have different warranties based on what Seagate and the retailer agree on.
• Chad Miller: Yeah. So, how can I know when I pick up a box whether the warranty expired yesterday?

Nice. Seagate’s Warranty Policy.

Official Seagate response after the break.

Hello Matt,

You got our attention. Thought, I’d drop you a note about our policy. for
posting to CrunchGear. I feel that we are not given a fair shake on this.
Seagate’s consumer warranty periods are 1 year, 2 years, 3 years or 5 years
from the documented date of purchase, depending on the type of product and
where it was purchased. Only consumers purchasing Seagate or Maxtor
products from authorized Seagate retailers or resellers may obtain coverage
under our limited warranties. Any and all warranty disputes are resolved by
a valid proof of purchase from an authorized reseller. If there are any
issues, please feel free to call Seagate at 1-800-Seagate for more
assistance.  Seagate’s currently shipping FreeAgent product family and the
Central Axis NAS all carry an industry-leading five year warranty. The full
description of Seagate’s warranty policy can be viewed here:
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=46593ba94282b010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

Nathan

Apparently a fair shake doesn’t including linking to the official policy. My bad. Next time we’ll not report any thing negative about Seagate ’cause we wouldn’t want to shake ‘em wrong. Might get the herp.

If the read/write head were a Boeing 747, and the hard-disk platter were the surface of the Earth:
The head would fly at Mach 800
At less than one centimeter from the ground
And count every blade of grass
Making fewer than 10 unrecoverable counting errors in an area equivalent to all of Ireland.

The whole tour is very interesting, and the photos by Matthieu Lamelot are excellent.

The drives have onboard hardware encryption, and at least on the Seagates, the drive pairs with a McAfee encryption/decryption client that’s, I assume, always running. With luck it’ll be unobtrusive and there won’t be too much of a performance hit. The hard drives are available in 160GB, 320GB, and soon a 500GB version as well. What can I say, it all sounds pretty good to me!

Here’s the full press release:

Seagate and McAfee Drive Advances in Self-Encrypting Notebook Computers

Seagate Ships Self-Encrypting Drive Easy Enough for Consumers to Install

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Seagate

(Nasdaq: STX) today announced sweeping advances in its global push to help secure notebook computer information from theft or loss. To combat growing threats to mobile information, Seagate, the world leader in storage solutions, is now shipping its groundbreaking, self-encrypting notebook PC hard drives, now with up to 320GB of capacity, to the worldwide distribution channel, with 500GB models coming soon. Additionally, Dell is now shipping a notebook with a 160GB self-encrypting hard drive. McAfee is set to provide software for the enterprise-wide management of notebooks with Seagate Secure(TM) hard drives.

Powerful, easy-to-use notebook data security is increasingly important as the global adoption of mobile PCs continues to soar and more notebooks are used to store sensitive personal and business information. Lost or stolen notebooks can cost companies millions of dollars in compromised proprietary information and threaten consumers with the high cost of identity theft, yet many computers remain unprotected. According to the United States FBI, a notebook computer is stolen every 53 seconds and 97% are never recovered*.

The new Momentus(R) FDE (full-disk encryption) notebook hard drives,

5400- and 7200-rpm models with capacities of up to a half-terabyte, deliver powerful protection to help guard against unauthorized access to information on lost or stolen notebook computers. Part of the Seagate Secure family of self-encrypting drives, the Momentus FDE drives feature government-grade encryption that delivers powerful security for confidential customer or corporate information on executive notebook computers, critical customer data on field sales and customer support notebook PCs, and sensitive information on personal notebooks.

“Delivering easy-to-use notebook security that also is cost-effective requires leading partnerships and technologies,” said Tom Major, vice president of the Personal Compute Business Unit at Seagate. “Seagate is pleased to be teaming with industry leaders to simplify security management for our customers and providing our OEM and channel customers with the world’s fastest self-encrypting hard drive.”

Businesses of all sizes and shapes are turning to hard drive-based encryption solutions to protect the important information that ensures their competitive edge. Papa Gino’s, a Dedham, Massachusetts-based restaurant chain, has deployed approximately 80 self-encrypting notebook computers for its workers since last year and has its sights set on using the newest secure notebooks.

“With these hardware-based security solutions only the right people get access to the right information with the best performance and the lowest price,” said Chris Cahalin, manager of Network Operations at Papa Gino’s.

McAfee Teams with Seagate to Simplify Management of Secure Notebooks

McAfee joins a growing list of security software providers — including SECUDE International, Wave Systems and WinMagic Data Security — that are teaming with Seagate to help secure notebook PCs. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator management system and McAfee’s endpoint encryption client will integrate with Seagate Momentus FDE hard drives to use the embedded hardware encryption, giving customers full, user-rich features and the total enterprise management required to secure notebook computers in heterogeneous environments.

“McAfee provides leading enterprise-class, powerful encryption and strong access control technologies,” said Tony Jennings, vice president Strategic Partnerships at McAfee. “By teaming with Seagate on its new encrypting Momentus drive, we are extending additional protection tools to our customers.”

Through McAfee ePO, organizations worldwide can leverage Seagate Momentus FDE hard drives in heterogeneous environments to secure notebook information. IT security personnel can enforce policy management globally, enable token authentication and end-user password recovery, and aid organizations to prove that a missing notebook was encrypted at the time it was lost or stolen — a requirement for compliance with many data-privacy laws.

Seagate Delivers Strong, Simple-to-Use Notebook Security for Consumers and Organizations

Seagate Secure hard drives are simple and easy for consumers and organizations to use. Individual computer users who are not subject to corporate policies and regulatory compliance, don’t need multi-user encryption management and want to protect personal and other sensitive information can easily deploy a notebook with a Momentus FDE hard drive, which installs as easily as a traditional drive. Once installed, the user simply enters a BIOS password, then logs on as usual, and the security is in place. The

hardware-based encryption engine delivers security without the overhead — no bootup delays, no system slowdowns — and the BIOS automatically authenticates the user for transparent security.

For organizations requiring high strength authentication and a simple way to meet state and federal consumer-privacy laws, Momentus FDE HD — the industry’s first hard drive with built-in encryption — can be deployed in notebook fleets to enable secure disposal and repurposing of drives and notebooks; security audits; password escrow; pre-boot authentication in the form of biometrics, passwords and smart cards; and simple centralized management.

Now shipping is the Momentus 5400 FDE.3 hard drive with capacities of 320GB and 160GB and 8MBs of cache, as is Momentus 7200 FDE, Seagate’s first high-performance (7200 RPM) self-encrypting notebook drive, with capacities of 320GB and 160GB and a 16MB cache. Seagate’s Momentus 5400 RPM and 7200 RPM self-encrypting hard drives in capacities up to 500GB are scheduled to begin shipping early next year. All Momentus FDE drives feature a fast Serial ATA interface and built-in AES encryption, an AES government-grade encryption used to encrypt all hard drive information transparently and automatically.

The Seagate Secure family is powered by a robust security platform that combines strong, fully automated hardware-based security with a programming foundation that makes it easy to add security-based software applications for organization-wide encryption key management, multi-factor user authentication and other capabilities that help lock down digital information at rest. Seagate Secure hard drives are the only other hardware-based encryption solutions that deliver both AES government-grade security and centralized notebook security management. The drives aid government, healthcare, education, banking and financial institutions to comply with consumer laws and state and federal legislation requiring identity theft protection.

*2007 Annual CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey