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External, 'Self-Encrypting' Drives... Which/What?

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Alright. My Google-Fu has failed, and after 90 minutes I give.

All I want is to buy an external drive with hardware encryption. )#@&% I'd think that was a key spec, like the interface... guess not.

Seagate's 'FreeAgent' series (I'm looking at the 2TB model) seems too... but maybe not. It could just be software based from their 'automatic' software.

Western Digital's MyPassport seems to support hardware encryption based on some PR, but not in a spec sheet that I can find as it all talks about more 'automatic' software.

The requirement list: External. Hardware Encryption.
Bonus for: eSATA.

I use TrueCrypt fine, I'd just like to help promote encryption everywhere. If I can't get it, then I'll just keep using TrueCrypt I guess, or buy a drive and then an encrypting enclosure, but that seems so unneeded if the )(#&%@ drive makers would just clearly state 'stupid-ass software that is a mere shadow of TrueCrypt and is heavily branded' or 'awesome hardware based encryption'

Thanks for any help with this.
 
From what I understand what you are looking for is primarily available in laptop hard drives, such as the Seagate Momentus hard drives. There are also a few desktop drives that have this feature.

As seen here

I don't know if you are aware but if you have an i5/i7 you can do hardware AES with TrueCrypt if that is of any help...

*Correction* - It turns out most of the consumer level desktop drives with hardware encryption turned out to be vaporware, however there are enterprise level drives and mobile drives with this feature, such as the Hitachi "BDE" series:

Explained by Hitachi here
 
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