Intel Launches Self-Encrypting SSD 91
MojoKid writes: Intel just launched their new SSD 2500 Pro series solid state drive, the follow-up to last year's SSD 1500 Pro series, which targets corporate and small-business clients. The drive shares much of its DNA with some of Intel's consumer-class drives, but the Pro series cranks things up a few notches with support for advanced security and management features, low power states, and an extended management toolset. In terms of performance, the Intel SSD 2500 Pro isn't class-leading in light of many enthusiast-class drives but it's no slouch either. Intel differentiates the 2500 Pro series by adding support for vPro remote-management and hardware-based self-encryption. The 2500 Pro series supports TCG (Trusted Computing Group) Opal 2.0 features and is Microsoft eDrive capable as well. Intel also offers an administration tool for easy management of the drive. With the Intel administration tool, users can reset the PSID (physical presence security ID), though the contents of the drive will be wiped. Sequential reads are rated at up to 540MB/s, sequential writes at up to 480MB/s, with 45K – 80K random read / write IOps.
Re:Intel has worked with the NSA (Score:1, Informative)
Its sad, but this has made everything american absolutely useless lately. Though the correct word would be "un-usable"
It's sad because the engineers who develop the products themselves aren't to blame, but their bosses. And their bosses bosses and so on. And down the ladder too, with people not caring who they vote, and allowing things to spiral so insanely out of control.
You've brought it on yourselves as a collective I guess.