A recurring theme in spy films is the written message, or different media, that self-destructs after the recipient has seen it. A small explosion ensures that the prying eyes of an enemy won’t ever get entry to the delicate data contained inside. However that is simply an over-the-top dramatic component for Hollywood films, proper?
Not totally. Taiwanese electronics producer Workforce Group has simply launched a solid-state drive (SSD) for the extraordinarily paranoid. Their P250Q-M80 SSD has an enormous purple button that you simply by no means need to push by mistake. One press wipes all knowledge from the drive, and this isn’t only a easy delete or perhaps a technique of overwriting the information with ones and zeros a number of instances. The wiping course of melts the flash NAND chips, bodily destroying them. As such, there isn’t a probability for knowledge restoration.
The SSD (📷: Workforce Group)
You don’t must go full kamikaze on the drive, nonetheless. A shorter press of the button will wipe knowledge with out bodily destroying the reminiscence chips by way of a course of Workforce Group calls S/W Fast Erase. But when that large, tempting purple button is held down just a few seconds longer, high-voltage electrical energy surges into the NAND chips, frying them to a crisp and releasing your whole knowledge in a cloud of magic smoke.
The producer is concentrating on this drive at industrial clients, particularly these working with delicate knowledge. As such, you can not precisely purchase it on Amazon, and no worth is listed on their web site (if you must ask, it’s in all probability out of your worth vary). Whereas sure industrial clients will undoubtedly profit from the information safety the P250Q-M80 affords, it’s more likely to even be a boon to felony enterprises in all places.
