pureSilicon's rugged Renegade SSD touts hardware-based encryption
By Darren Murph 
posted October 29th 2008 1:21AM
posted October 29th 2008 1:21AM
pureSilicon isn't offering up the first rugged SSD or anything, but its Renegade line is still tough enough to be compliant with MIL-STD-810F (and this guy's) standards. Hailed as the first solid state drive to integrate hardware-based encryption approved by the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), the device boasts up to 128GB of capacity, a dedicated on-board cryptographic processor, hard-anodized unibody enclosure and the ability to withstand most anything that you could put it through (save for a blender). Select customers have already received samples, but if you're dumbstruck by such a notion, you'll have to wait with the rest of the citizenry and nab yours in Q1 2009.
I wasn't aware that SSD's needed any more ruggedization? No moving parts after all...
Consider some additional ruggedization for your brain. It has no moving parts but seems to have been damaged.
Do encrypted HDDs/SDDs require TPM or compatible BIOSs?
Gosh... how about just make them cheaper.
I think that'd require a little more work than putting on some force-absorbing rubber...
just what i thought, reader, you seemed to have missed the sarcasm...
I don't want innovation that makes ssds MORE expensive, i want a £50 64Gb SSD... or a £40 64Gb SSD.... oor
Maybe Nissan could stop putting spoilers on their GT-Rs and sell them for the price of an Altima.
it's like putting a Corolla bumper on a tank...
"...the Renegade features a hard-anodized unibody enclosure, carved from a single piece of aluminum."
It's like putting hardened steel armor on a tank...
Nice