Momentus 5400 FDE.2: HDD with embedded encrypting system from Seagate

Many users ignore safety of their data. Most of them are well protected against harmful software: they have anti-virus and firewall. But there are few who thinks about protection from physical stealing. And here comes a solution - new Seagate HDD    Momentus 5400 FDE.2

There are two possible dangers: losing of data and information leakage. If hard drive is broken, data stored on it will be lost. If you make backups regularly, actual damage to the data will be minimal. But if you cannot physically protect storage device or whole system, your data may be compromised, which means unauthorized users will have access to your information.

Most troublesome are mobile users. When they work on PC's inside corporate building data usually stored on unified file servers or local discs. Local security policy and IT-infrastructure are usually enough to provide maximum data security. It could be compromised only in case of breach in IT-infrastructure or if someone will physically steal disc drive or copy data via direct access.

You know some standard methods of protection: BIOS password, Windows authentication and so on. But is good only for keeping your kids from playing on your PC while you are absent.

The only effective mean of protection is a hardware one. Seagate used new Trusted Platform Module in it's Momentus HDD. But you'll need special software all the same.

All models of Momentus series are represented by most popular modifications of  80, 120 and 160 Gb. It is not as fast as leaders such as Spinpoint M5 (Samsung), Hitachi Travelstar 5K250 or new Momentus 5400.4, but encrypting almost does not affects speed.

It is not supported by Windows Vista for now so you'll have to use Windows SP Home or Professional. To activate encrypting procedures you have to install FinallySecure package by Secude. After that you receive small second partition where you can store your most valuable information. To access it you'll have to enter login and password. When connected to other system this partition renders empty.

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Will I ever have enough hard drive space?

I just ordered another 300GB hard drive for my Media Center PC the other day (hopefully it will arrive in the next few days). That brings me up to 700GB of storage and I'm sure I will have that extra 300GB used up in not time.

I've already reluctantly deleted a lot of video which I will be keen to get back. If I could buy a 1TB hard drive for under $200 I would definitely have one and be filling it up fast and I know I'm not alone.

I don't even record or download video in HD quality, I don't know what I would do if I did given that HD content takes up almost 10 times more space. I'd be looking at needing 7TB of hard drive space on my PC instead.

Right now if I wanted to feel comfortable and could afford it I would like about 2TB of space with most of it housed on a network attached storage device (NAS), but five years from now I'll probably be sitting there with my 5TB of video storage wishing I could have 50TB.

I think my soon-to-be 700GB setup is above average but will be dwarfed by what some of you guys have out there. So if you have a beefy storage setup for your recorded videos let us know!

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