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    SSD with hardware encryption on Z12

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by omicronbook, May 2, 2013.

  1. omicronbook

    omicronbook Newbie

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    I intend to buy a 840 Pro samsung ssd (that supports full disk encryption).

    I prefer to FDE straight on the drive, and avoid alternative options like TPM/bitlocker or 3rd party apps (i can elaborate).

    How can I set it up in the bios menu? There doesnt seem to be an hdd password option.

    Thanks
     
    omicronbook, May 2, 2013
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  2. temagic

    temagic Notebook Consultant

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    BIOS supports both masterpassword and userpassword. Either of these will activate the hardware AES encryption on the Samsung 840 Pro.
     
    temagic, May 3, 2013
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    omicronbook Newbie

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    Thanks for your reply.

    I thought that the master/user password was the standard BIOS password, regardless to hdd encryption. Are you 100% sure that they linked?

    thanks
     
    omicronbook, May 3, 2013
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  4. temagic

    temagic Notebook Consultant

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    Yes, you need to turn the VAIO BIOS-password on for the hardware aes encryption of your SSD t be active. On some systems it might be HDD-password, but on you VAIO it is either of these two... It is nice to have both activated, for one allows system-start-up, the other enhanced privileges such as BIOS settings etc... :)
     
    temagic, May 6, 2013
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    excellent! thanks!
     
    omicronbook, May 6, 2013
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    :confused:

    I was in contact with Sony Vaio support and he told me:
    I can not give you information or advice for none Sony products. But I can tell for sure that the passwords you mentioned are not the same as a HDD password.

    Did anyone try Samsung support already? Might be a similar reply.

    I asked Sony now for a BIOS having that feature, and I will post it here once I get more info.

    alternatively I will have to use TrueCrypt again (I'm on Windows 7)
     
    thomas1lutz, Sep 27, 2013
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