While the encryption capabilities of the Dell 4X0XG drive offer high-quality security, management of these Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) is critical to the security's effectiveness. Securing data with SEDs requires a key management service that stores, manages, and serves the appropriate authentications to these drives. In addition to its traditional functions, a storage array's management service also defines secure arrays and invokes the instant secure erase feature when the administrator wants to permanently erase data. In fact, the security capabilities offered with drive-level encryption are only as good as the people and management tools administering them.
 
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