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    200gb Hard Drive with encryption

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Interpolator, Dec 28, 2008.

  1. Interpolator

    Interpolator Newbie

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    I am looking to by the 200gb FDE drive that Lenovo has available for the W500. It looks like a Hitachi 7K200 BDE drive. I have looked everywhere in US online to find one of these. I checked distribution also, Synnex, Bell Mircro and ASI. Does anybody know who has these available online in USA? Anyone with experience with these drives?
     
    Interpolator, Dec 28, 2008
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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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  3. Renee

    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    The last time I checked there were several Hitachi's that would fit the bill.
    In this case the bill is the capacity you want plus that it be 7200 rpm and
    be scsi.
     
    Renee, Dec 28, 2008
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  4. jonlumpkin

    jonlumpkin NBR Transmogrifier

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    To the best of my knowledge these Full Disc Encryption drives perform hardware AES encryption to all the data that is read/written to the drive. However, these drives are expensive, undersized, and usually depend on a TPM to work (they may not be usable even with the right password in a different computer).

    One other option is to use TrueCrypt Full Disc encryption. This is free, works with any hard drive, and can be used to pull data off the drive (from another computer) in the event that your ThinkPad fails.

    In my experience there is no performance penalty for Truecyrpt (although you will notice your processor has to work to calculate the on the fly encryption for large reads/writes; this could reduce performance if you do tasks that are both CPU and disc intensive e.g. high bitrate Audio/Video transcoding).
     
    jonlumpkin, Dec 28, 2008
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  5. mike1977

    mike1977 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Absolutely agree. Use TrueCrypt. No comparison.
     
    mike1977, Dec 28, 2008
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