SSD with hardware encryption (Linux)

I'm considering replacing the Intel 330 in my W520 with a bigger-capacity SSD (something like 250-500GB range). That has the SandForce SF2281 controller in it, which (lucky for me) hasn't crapped out on me but delivers awful performance on uncompressable data, which included encrypted *anything*. Also, I'm running out of space on my 330 for my OS + programs (it's the 180GB version).

That said, one thing I'd really like is to have a replacement SSD that has hardware encryption built into it (so, if my drive is stolen, nothing can be read from it). However, most of the solutions I've seen require OEM software installed on the computer to use the encryption, most of this software being Windows-only. That won't work for me since this is a Linux-only laptop. So I'd like hardware encryption that'll work under Linux, either within the OS itself (OEM software that does work in Linux somehow) or if it requires something OS-agnostic (such as hardware encryption being enabled by a BIOS password or something). Another requirement is that I care more about reliability of the drive than speed (I usually look towards Crucial, Intel, and Samsung and would like to avoid any SandForce-based drives); i.e. something like the Crucial BX100 would be fine for me performance-wise (though that doesn't have encryption).

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should look at? And if there are any other requirements to have Linux hardware encryption (say, a certain distro or certain encryption software is required), I'd like to know that as well. Thanks!