Why you need self-encrypting drives

Posted by Ken Y-N on August 18th, 2010 at 04:36pm

A recent article sponsored by the Trusted Computing Group and published on Computer Technology Review looked at why self-encrypting drives are almost a legal necessity yet need not be expensive nor painful to introduce and manage. Furthermore, disk drives supporting TCG’s Opal specification for hardware-based encryption are around twice as fast as software-based systems.