Supported and Unsupported Disk Types for Drive Encryption with Symantec Endpoint Encryption

Products

• Endpoint Encryption

Issue/Introduction

This article details the Supported and Unsupported Disk Types including OPAL drives for SEE 11.0.1 version of Symantec Endpoint Encryption Client.

Resolution

Supported disk types:

• Desktop or laptop disks, including solid-state drives (either partitions or an entire disk)
• USB flash disks
• Advanced format drives with 512-byte emulation mode (512e)
• FAT32, and NTFS formatted disks or partitions
• GPTboot disks on Microsoft Windows 8.x and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (UEFI systems only)

The following are the supported Opal v2 compliant eDrives for Drive Encryption:

• Samsung SSD 840 EVO mSATA
• Intel SSD Pro 2500

Drive Encryption manages these drives and uses the Opal drive's built-in hardware encryption capability when these drives are used with following laptop models:

• Lenovo ThinkPad W540
• Lenovo ThinkPad T540p
• Lenovo ThinkPad X240

Note: Above mentioned Opal Disks and Machine Models are Default supported models and are hardcoded to take advantage of Hardware Encryption. Other Combinations will default to Software Encryption.

Unsupported Disk Types:

• Any configuration where the system partition is not on the same disk as the boot partition
• Native mode advanced format drives
• Dynamic disks
• SCSI drives and controllers
• Software RAID disks
• exFAT formatted disks
• Resilient File System (ReFS)
• Extended partitions.

Applies To

SEE Drive Encryption 11.0.1