Seagate Announces New Momentus FDE Laptop Hard Drives

Seagate has announced this week that it is now shipping its new Momentus FDE self-encrypting laptop hard drives with “government-grade” AES encryption, up to 320GB of capacity, and SATA2 interface.

“Now shipping is the Momentus 5400 FDE.3 hard drive with capacities of 320GB and 160GB and 8MBs of cache, as is Momentus 7200 FDE, Seagate’s first high-performance (7200 RPM) self-encrypting notebook drive, with capacities of 320GB and 160GB and a 16MB cache. Seagate’s Momentus 5400 RPM and 7200 RPM self-encrypting hard drives in capacities up to 500GB are scheduled to begin shipping early next year,” the press release says.

There is no information on pricing for the new HDDs.

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