The manufacturer Toshiba has announced via press release that the company is a self-encryption on the market will bring with hard drives. The drives, called "MKxx61GSYD" are each 160, 250, 320, 500 or 640 GB of data can save model after. Produced the data storage in a 2.5-inch format and work with 7200 revolutions per minute. Depending on the storage volume can be either one or two magnetic discs inside are installed. The integrated cache will fail MB 16 and according to the manufacturer, the hard drive notebook has been developed as a priority.

Encryption is AES 256-bit and will work based on the specification Opal Security Subsystem Class (Opal SSC) of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). This method provides, inter alia, that the data encryption and authentication should be hardware based. The possibility of accessing the hard drive can be remotely through Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) is enabled or disabled. Initial samples of the MKxx61GSYD by Toshiba are available now. Mass production is scheduled for the first quarter of 2011. A prize called the manufacturer yet, unfortunately.