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Self-destruction of data or SSDs: innovation from TeamGroup
It's not easy to stand out from the crowd when you're a manufacturer of SSDs. TeamGroup tries a novel feature.
While we've just been talking about the presentation of a PCI Express Gen 6 SSD controller, TeamGroup is making headlines with a completely different innovation. No, it's clearly not a question of offering us delirious data rates with the P250Q-M80 that the Taiwanese firm is presenting today. This SSD is PCI Express Gen 4 compatible and, as such, already offers more than decent performance: good enough, at any rate, for 99.9% of users who couldn't tell the difference from a PCI Express Gen 3 model on a day-to-day basis. We're talking about sequential speeds of " up to 7,000 MB/s " for sequential reading and " up to 5,500 MB/s " for sequential writing.
If there's no question of performance, then how can this P250Q-M80 hope to stand out from the crowd? There's no point in prolonging the suspense, since our fair share has already spilled the beans - no explosive pun intended! - TeamGroup has decided to integrate a self-destruct function into its new SSD. The aim here is to reach sectors where the protection of particularly sensitive data and the need to erase it quickly - without the possibility of going back - is important. To achieve this, TeamGroup has integrated two solutions and two methods into its P250Q-M80.
The first, known as " software ", involves a large button accessible from outside the machine. Pressing it for between 5 and 10 seconds launches a software procedure that deletes all existing data. A little subtlety here: even a power cut cannot interrupt the procedure, which resumes immediately as soon as electricity is restored. The second method is even more radical, and TeamGroup calls it " hardware ". Here, pressing the button for more than 10 seconds causes a surge in the SSD's flash memory chips. Be careful, though, because in addition to frying the data, this procedure also destroys the SSD.
As we said, TeamGroup is specifically targeting certain sensitive sectors such as the military with this product, which should soon be available in capacities of 256GB, 512GB, 1TB or 2TB. While a video (above) details the process at work on this SSD, TeamGroup gives neither a more precise date nor a recommended retail price.