Laptops to Ship With Automatic-Encryption Hard Drives

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David Hyun


Seagate announced on Monday a new partnership with Fremont-based ASI Computer Technologies to start delivering laptops with the encrypting Momentus 5400 FDE.2 hard drive.
ASI, a company that typically caters to small and medium-sized value added resellers (VARs) and other customers in government, legal, financial, educational, and the health industries, will start selling the C8015 and C8015+ laptops through resellers like Newegg.com starting next month, according to Kent Tibbils, senior director of platform technologies and marketing for ASI.
The notebooks will come in 80-, 120-, and 160-gigabyte capacities, and will feature a 15.4-inch display, integrated biometric fingerprint readers, and will also support Intel Core 2 Duo, Core Duo, Core Solo, and Celeron M Mobile Processors.