Does FDE/SED/SafeStore work with Samsung 840 Pro and M1015?

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klaus

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I have an M1015+m1000 key flashed with the latest 9240 firmware, and a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB.

The controller says this drive doesn't support encryption, Samsung says it does, what gives?
 

mrkrad

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Oct 13, 2012
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the LSI card will disable its own encryption when you have an SED drive like the 840. Note this is not FIPS compliant!
 

0egp8

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I posted this to someone with a similar question on WHT:

0egp8 said:
The issue is that it's not sufficient for a drive to merely have FDE.

It needs to comply with a particular standard called the TCG Enterprise SSC.

However, we'd be lucky if consumer SSDs even supported TCG OPAL SSC. The Samsung 840 Pro certainly doesn't, as per

Protect Your Privacy: Security & Encryption Basics | Samsung SSD

In fact, the only HDDs I can find that support this standard are Seagate Secure SEDs:

Seagate Secure Self-Encrypting Drives with LSI MegaRAID SafeStore Encryption Services for Servers
Protect your Data with Seagate Secure Self-Encrypting Drives | Seagate
 

Krobar

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The Samsung is unlikely to be TCG1.5 Sapphire compliant and is more likely Opal or TCG 2.0.