World’s first 320 GB 2.5″ Hard Drive with AES 256-bit Encryption from Fujitsu
Fujitsu today announced the release of the MHZ2 CJ Series of 320 GB 2.5″ hard disk drives with self-moving hardware-based encryption to effectively secure input against theft or loss, along with the industry’s highest rotational speed of 7200-rpm and a 3.0 Gb/s Serial ATA interface. The new Fujitsu series is the first hard disk drive in the world to support the 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). The drive implements the AES hardware encryption directly into the processor chip of the hard disk drive, resulting in more robust defense and faster system performance than software-based encryption.
Press release after the jump
All info stored on the Fujitsu MHZ2 CJ Series 320 GB 2.5″ hard disk drive can be erased instantly, in less than a second, using the advanced secure erase feature. The new Fujitsu series of drives for computers and external storage devices will be available at the end of May 2008.
Tokyo, April 21, 2008 — Fujitsu Limited today announced the release of the MHZ2 CJ Series of 320 GB(1) 2.5″ hard disk drives with robotic hardware-based encryption to effectively secure documents against theft or loss, along with the industry’s highest rotational speed of 7200-rpm and a 3.0 Gb/s Serial ATA interface(2). The new series of drives for computers and external storage devices will be available at the end of May 2008.
This series is the first hard disk drive in the world to support the 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)(3). The drive implements the AES hardware encryption directly into the processor chip of the hard disk drive, resulting in more robust defense and faster system performance than software-based encryption.
All input stored on the hard disk drive can be erased instantly, in less than a second, using the advanced secure erase feature. For public institutions and companies that handle large amounts of personal and other confidential notes, that dramatically lowers the day and cost involved in wiping
With the growing problem of knowledge theft and new laws protecting personal info, interest in info shield is extremely high, particularly as disk capacity increases and users write huge amounts of personal and other details on their drives. Lost or stolen computers with high-capacity hard drives put confidential data at risk, making the need to secure the goods stored on those hard drives all the more urgent
The conventional response to that problem has been the use of BIOS passwords(4) and software-based encryption. Seeking a more robust anatomy of details protection, Fujitsu has now developed 2.5″ hard disk drives with hardware-based AES encryption using industry-leading 256-bit key.
The built-in AES automatically encrypts all details when storing it on the hard disk drive and decrypts the notes when read. Unlike software-based encryption, the key does not reside in the computer’s memory. that makes it more resistant to attack and imposes no processing overhead on the CPU, optimizing system performance.
Fujitsu’s line of highly dependable and efficient hard disk drives now includes a hard disk drive that combines maximum notes shield features with high performance, resulting in an ideal computing environment.
Moreover, with growing awareness of the problem of documents stored on the hard drives of computers, anyone planning to discard or reuse a computer has been obliged to use specialized software to overwrite all the user accessible notes blocks on the hard drive multiple times, a costly and time-consuming proposition. that new series of drives includes an advanced secure erase feature to dramatically reduce the total cost of ownership to public institutions as well as private enterprises.
Fujitsu is an active member of the Trusted Computing Group(5), an organization that promulgates and disseminates standards for security-related technology. The company plans to continue releasing products that reply to its customers’ needs for data safety measure.
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