> I wouldn't know. I've never taken one apart. They come in enclosures > obviously and well designed to disourage tampering. I will, however, > observe that the available drives have always been of far smaller > capacity than I'd expect and their new drive introductions seem to come > quite slowly.
This is precisly the issue with obtaining FIPS certification for hard drives. Hard Drive design and development moves at a extremely rapid pace. Time to market and innovation is key in the disk drive business. Manufacturers like Hitachi, Fujitsu and Seagate have to release newer hardware every month to keep ahead of the competition. Whereas obtaining FIPs certification is a slow and time consuming process. By the time these manufacturers obtain FIPS for a certain hardware, that hardware is already few generations old. FIPS certification process needs some serious reforms, where it can keep up with the rapid release cycle of the hard drive business. _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
