Dell adding Samsung's encrypted SSDs to its arsenal

Dell's been doing both solid state and encrypted drives for some time now, but only now is the company combining both efforts and preparing to offer encrypted SSDs in the coming months. The Samsung-manufactured drives will come in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB options, and though the hardware encryption method isn't specified, we'd venture a guess it'll have something to do with Trusted Computer Group's 128-bit standards adopted by Sammy and virtually every other drive maker back in January. No word just yet on how much they'll cost, but if current prices are any indication, it won't come cheap.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 15th 2009 11:36PM]

Please don't counter this great trend with "non-user replaceable"

[rcarm Posted Apr 15th 2009 11:38PM]

It looks like it's user-replaceable to me

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2009 8:50AM]

Ever had some Dell Latitude? With a basic screwdriver you'll have HDD changed in like 20 seconds, the designers really took care to make disk swap as painless as possible (RAM chip under the keyboard is a different story, though :)).

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 15th 2009 11:38PM]

Damn can the price of SSD come down before they start talking about encryption.

[Nerdtalker Posted Apr 16th 2009 12:35AM]

I still really can't get behind the whole disk-level encryption thing where there's some magic box firmware doing the encryption.

Why not simply use TrueCrypt and just about anybody's SSD and call it a day?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 15th 2009 11:46PM]

ADMIN

*bloop*

"Welcome to your OS. What encrypted data can I give you today?"

[Saad Posted Apr 15th 2009 11:46PM]

Man, this picture looks so badass.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2009 1:30AM]

Super Sexy Drive

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2009 1:27AM]

too bad you won't get to see that chrome logo when you're actually using it

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2009 7:45AM]

That's the first thing that came to my mind as well. I think I'll set some good mood lighting up and a glass display case with one of these beautiful Samsung SSDs in it.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2009 12:05AM]

ULTRA SPEED SAFE PORN

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2009 1:17AM]

It's too bad they don't have a decent encryption chipset on there. On my machine Truecrypt can do 285MB/sec for 256 bit AES or 135MB for AES/Twofish (which I'm currently using)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2009 2:08AM]

too bad dell knows all the master passwords to each HD. so if the cops/customs call them, voila they will give them your password. only ibm's allow users to change the master hd password.

fyi: encrypted hd's have user and master passwords. on dell laptops last time i checked, you can only change the user password. this is how its on my D430.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2009 3:56AM]

For the HDD passwords yes, for the full drive encription, not if you get the right management software, some of the more advanced enterprise ones allow you to use keys from your own PKI infrastructure, go read last years Gartner report on Endpoint Security

[Herbaceous Border Patrol Posted Apr 16th 2009 4:48AM]

I would love this, if only to feel like I was in 24.