Azure Data Box Disk is now generally available in a hardware-encrypted option in the European Union, United States, and Japan. These self-encrypting drives (SEDs) use the dedicated/native/specialized hardware for data encryption, without any software dependency from the host machine.
These SEDs use the specialized native hardware present on the disk for data encryption, without any software dependencies on the host machine. With this offering, we now support comparable data transfer rates on Linux as that of our BitLocker-encrypted Data Box Disk drives on Windows.