Seagate shipping encrypted laptop platform

Seagate has announced that it will ship its Momentus 5400 FDE.2 hard drive to be used in ASI Computer Technology's newest laptop PC. Targeted at business users, the "FDE" initials mean "Full Disk Encryption." All data written to the hard disk is transparently encrypted via on-board hardware with government-grade Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption. This effectively prevents external parties from salvaging data from lost or stolen laptops by taking out the hard disk and then reading the data off of it directly. The ASI C8105 laptop PC in question will be available in April and feature a fingerprint reader for the purpose of user authentication. 

For more on Seagate's encrypted hard drive:
- check out this eWeek article