The 7K500. demonstrates Hitachi's ecological leadership with its halogen-free production and focus on low power consumption, and carries the EcoTrac classification. The Hitachi Travelstar 7K500. Mobile Hard Drive elevates overall reliability with the industry's first Iterative Detection Read Channel for improved signal processing.Hitachi offers optional hard-drive-level encryption for increased ata security and enhanced availability models to deliver hgh-capacity storage for non-stop environments. Travelstar 7k500 delivers the balance of capacity, ruggedness and ow-power to meet the needs of consumers and commercial uers in an eco-friendly footprint.

Encryption option

The Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 Mobile Hard Drive features optional Bulk Data Encryption (BDE) for hard-drive-level data security. Hitachi is working with the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) to ensure that our new products are complaint with the forthcoming Storage Security specification that is expected to become an industry standard. With BDE, the data is scrambled using a key as it is written to the disk then descrambled with the key as it is retrieved, giving users the highest level of data protection available. In addition, it speeds and simplifies the drive re-deployment process. By deleting the encryption key, the data is rendered unreadable, therefore doing away with the need for time-consuming data-overwrite.

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