Bitlocker, Windows 8 and self encrypting drives

I am trying to install a Seagate Constellation.2 self-encrypting drive with Windows 8 for use with Bitlocker. Articles that I've read imply that Bitlocker will recognise the SED.

There's no problem with the installation but there is no indication that Bitlocker sees it as anything other than a normal drive.

If I try to encrypt the full drive with Bitlocker, it's obvious, from the time it takes, that it is software encrypting it.

I have read the article about 'encrypted hard drives' and note that it says that SEDs are not the same thing. Frankly, I don't understand this and neither do other people on the web who have written saying that SEDs are now supported by Bitlocker.

Can you help with this please?

Thanks

July 14th, 2013 12:23pm

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July 14th, 2013 12:29pm

Well that's not a bad idea, as long as I don't expect an answer from Seagate themselves. I've already been talking to them about other aspects of this (eg - why is an SED better than a normal drive) and they've not been helpful (at one point I had two helpdesk agents contradicting each other). But I will try. Because I'm quite desperate.

Seagate don't seem to have much to do with this. They actually just produce the drives with the configurability and then they're controlled by third-party software by people like Wave. However this software is very complex and more expensive than the drives themselves.

I came across an article that said Bitlocker would recognize SEDs so I was hopeful that it would. I guess my question was really why doesn't Bitlocker recognize the drive, rather than why isn't the drive recognized by Bitlocker.

Thanks for replying so quickly by the way.

Bob

July 14th, 2013 12:53pm

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