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M.2 SSD Can Self-Destruct by Giving Itself a Burst of Voltage


The vendor Team Group is marketing the self-destruct SSD to customers in sensitive industries, including defense, factory automation and AI development.

The product, the P250Q Self-Destruct SSD, is engineered to instantly wipe its memory at the push of a button —either through a software-based erasure or a hardware method that's supposed to physically destroy the flash chip. The product comes from the Taiwanese memory vendor Team Group, which is marketing the SSD to customers working in sensitive industries, including defense, factory automation and AI development. Team Group says the software-based method features “an auto-resume function that ensures data destruction continues seamlessly after an unexpected power outage, guaranteeing the complete elimination of sensitive information.”

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