pureSilicon's rugged Renegade SSD touts hardware-based encryption

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.

[wickedpheonix @ Oct 29th 2008 1:30AM]

I wasn't aware that SSD's needed any more ruggedization? No moving parts after all...

[linuxamp @ Oct 29th 2008 1:42AM]

Consider some additional ruggedization for your brain. It has no moving parts but seems to have been damaged.

[linuxamp @ Oct 29th 2008 1:39AM]

Do encrypted HDDs/SDDs require TPM or compatible BIOSs?

[Gleb @ Oct 29th 2008 1:41AM]

Gosh... how about just make them cheaper.

[Reader @ Oct 29th 2008 2:26AM]

I think that'd require a little more work than putting on some force-absorbing rubber...

[Oli D @ Oct 29th 2008 3:38AM]

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

[Reader @ Oct 29th 2008 3:43AM]

Maybe Nissan could stop putting spoilers on their GT-Rs and sell them for the price of an Altima.

[SNP @ Oct 29th 2008 1:41AM]

it's like putting a Corolla bumper on a tank...

[lawrra @ Oct 29th 2008 2:51AM]

"...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...

[corey @ Oct 29th 2008 3:40AM]

Nice