Toshiba?s Self Erasing Drive Wipes Itself Instantly

If you yank one of Toshiba’s new Self Erasing Drives from a computer and try to use it in another machine, then it can instantly wipe sensitive data, leaving a thief with little more than an empty chunk of glass and silicon.
The SED performs a cryptographic erase on itself. Unlike a regular erase which overwrites [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/toshibas-self-erasing-drive-wipes-itself-instantly/

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