Hitachi releasing secure, green, mobile hard drive

Posted by Ken Y-N on November 27th, 2008 at 01:52pm

Hitatchi recently announce their new Travelstar 5K500.B, a 2.5 inch 500 GB drive for mobile computers, featuring a halogen-free design and the lowest read/write power requirements in the industry, enough for them to award themselves their new EcoTrac classification for products with low-impact lifecycles.

The security features include optional Bulk Data Encryption for drive-level security, and it is expected to be the first to meet the Storage Security specifications from the Trusted Computing Group.

SECUDE software is shipped (it seems, it’s not clear from the press release) with the drive to enable simpler key management, remote configuration, and other security-related features.

Read the full press release at MarketWatch here.

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