Self-encrypting hard disks are disks that include a hardware encryption chip.
With self-encrypting disks, the hardware chip handles all encryption so ZENworks Full Disk Encryption does not perform any disk encryption. However, you can use ZENworks Pre-Boot Authentication to enhance the authentication security for the disk. For more information, see Section 2.0, Pre-Boot Authentication.
ZENworks Full Disk Encryption currently supports pre-boot authentication on Seagate Momentus self-encrypting (FDE.x) hard disks. For a listing of the supported models, see Supported Self-Encrypting Drives
in the ZENworks 11 SP2 Full Disk Encryption Agent Reference.