Decommissioning self-encrypting, Opal-compliant hard drives

Self-encrypting hard drives offer hardware-based encryption of data when they are written to the hard disk. The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has published the vendor-independent Opal standard for self-encrypting hard drives. SafeGuard Enterprise supports the Opal standard and offers management of endpoints with self-encrypting, Opal-compliant hard drives.

For further information about Opal-compliant hard drives, see the SafeGuard Enterprise administrator help, chapter SafeGuard Enterprise and self-encrypting Opal-compliant hard drives.

For SafeGuard Enterprise-protected computers we provide the command-line tool opalinvdisk.exe.