Foremay Introduces Military Secure Erase and Self-Destruction SSD Drives

Foremay today announced its entire portfolio of military secure erase solutions through its UC007 military grade SSD processor together with its Avalanche military secure erase suite.

The military secure erase solutions are offered through Foremay's SC199 and TC166 product families with form factors of 2.5" SATA, 1.8" microSATA and JEDEC MO-300B compliant mSATA SSD drives.

"By taking advantage of Foremay's patent pending technologies, we are glad to offer a complete data secure erase and data destruction solution for solid state drives," said Jack Winters, Foremay's CTO and co-founder. "Through our Type-I software or ATA command based military data purge, Type-II hardware based data sanitation with fast erase feature and Type-III self-destruct technologies which destroy an entire SSD within a few seconds, we hope to provide features useful in mission critical and defense applications."

The main difference between Type-I and Type-II secure erase is that Type-I secure erase is executed through software or ATA command, while Type-II secure erase is trigged by a discrete signal or external hardware switch or hot button. Foremay's SSD drives after Type-I or Type-II secure erase are re-useable after re-format.

Type-III military destructive secure erase includes, destroying the encryption key to render the entire drive unusable and inaccessible, destroying firmware to render the entire drive unusable and inaccessible, physically destroying all NAND flash memory permanently and Foremay's SSD drives after Type-III secure erase are unusable.