Seagate ships over 1 million self-encrypting HDD

Seagate has announced that it has shipped more than 1 million self-drive laptop and enterprise class disk drives. Seagate ships now 24 products in a family of self-drive units (SEDs) that includes the Savvio, Cheetah, constellation ES and constellation. Seagate SED enterprise shipments have tripled in the last two quarters, while the company portable SED shipments have doubled in each of the last three years.

Seagate has managed to reach the milestone thanks to support from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and independent software vendors (ISVs). Six OEMS (Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, LSI and Network Appliance) currently offer products powered by SEDs Seagate enterprise. ISV partnerships Seagate have grown to include leaders of Credant security, McAfee, Mobile Armor, Secude, Softex, Symantec, Wave Systems and WinMagic. They provide management software so that organizations can easily manage and protect encryption keys and passwords to simplify deployments of Seagate Momentus and Momentus thin SEDs.

Family of Seagate Savvio, Cheetah, constellation and Momentus SEDs have secured FIPS 140-2 certification from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The company has the first HDD portable and enterprise with certification of Government, which clears the way for deployments of Seagate SEDs by all of the United States and Canadian federal agencies, many State and local governments and more regulated industries. Several OEMS are now qualifying SEDs Momentus which conform to the specifications of Opal the Trusted Computing Group, issued by the international body in 2009, and which aims to increase the adoption of SEDs.