NEW DELHI, INDIA: To combat growing threats to mobile information, Seagate is now shipping its notebook PC hard drives, of up to 320GB of capacity, to the worldwide distribution channel, with 500GB models coming soon. Additionally, Dell is now shipping a notebook with a 160GB self-encrypting hard drive. McAfee is set to provide software for the enterprise-wide management of notebooks with Seagate Secure hard drives.

The new Momentus full-disk encryption (FDE) notebook hard drives, 5400 and 7200-rpm models with capacities of up to a 0.5TB, deliver protection to help guard against unauthorized access to information on lost or stolen notebook computers. Part of the Seagate Secure family of self-encrypting drives, the Momentus FDE drives feature encryption that delivers security for confidential customer or corporate information on executive notebook computers, critical customer data on field sales and customer support notebook PCs, and sensitive information on personal notebooks.

"Seagate is pleased to be teaming with industry leaders to simplify security management for our customers, and providing our OEM and channel customers with the world's fastest self-encrypting hard drive," said Tom Major, VP—Personal Compute Business Unit, Seagate.

Papa Gino's, a Dedham, Massachusetts-based restaurant chain, has deployed approximately 80 self-encrypting notebook computers for its workers since last year and has its sights set on using the newest secure notebooks.

"With these hardware-based security solutions, only the right people get access to the right information with the best performance and the lowest price," said Chris Cahalin, Manager—Network Operations, Papa Gino's.