SSDs with fast erase and data purge - article on StorageSearch.com

September 2018 - Sanitizing sensitive SSDs using a mobile physical shredding service was mentioned in the news pages of StorageSearch.com as a follow up to an article about data recovery which said "Is there an opposite concept to data recovery? Yes. The flip side to data recovery is fast purge SSDs and disk sanitizers."

February 2018 - Flexxon said its GALAXY 2.5" SATA 2 SSDs for secure military grade applications have optional built in self destruct which can perform physically destructive protection (high voltage burnout of the internal flash chips) to ensure data is unrecoverable within 2 seconds.

April 2016 - Renice released a video which shows smoke emerging from nand flash chips when self destruct is initiated in a new SSD design which includes built in self destruct high voltage sanitization.

February 2015 - "Remotely triggered data destruction isn't a new idea in secure SSDs - but it hasn't really taken hold in the past due to the disruptive effect of false positives. For those reasons Waitan's StellaHunter is triggered by 2 or more preset conditions. Users can also choose whether the SSD should be reusable after the secure erase or whether the SSD should have a destructive erase."

May 2013 - "Microsemi says a full hardware-based erase takes less than 8 seconds for the whole 256GB."

February 2012 - "Greenliant's industrial grade SATA BGA SSDs have upto 8GB capacity, zoneable password security and fast erase."

March 2011 - "Foremay 's presentation discusses different approaches for the secure erase of data on SSD's. Although key destruction of a self-encrypting drive provides some protection and is very fast, the data remains on the drive leaving the possibility of decryption with breakthroughs in the future. Secure erase eliminates this possibility entirely, and can be done with a hardware-based, one-key self-destroy disk purge in a few seconds, or a secure erase using a one-key or software-based method in several seconds. These options provide a range of methods to keep the data secure."

November 2010 - "RunCore has launched the world's first CF card with fast (typically 30 seconds) on-board sanitization functions."

August 2010 - "Foremay's CTO, Jack Winters presented a paper - Secure Erase Options for SSDs (pdf) - at the recent Flash Memory Summit. The paper describes the need for SSD data purge and the 3 techniques which the company supports in its Avalanche Secure Erase Suite."

February 2009 - "WEDC's - ZoneLoc automatically sanitizes a flash SSD to military standards - when the device is moved outside a specified operating zone - to prevent data falling into enemy hands. ZoneLoc has configurable features and options, including audible warnings, programmable response times, wireless remote purging and sensitivity modes."

May 2002 - "Securing confidential data is essential: as the damage that can be caused when it falls into the "wrong hands" is devastating... Deleting files from a mechanical disk does not actually erase the data as only the File Allocation Table (FAT) is being updated but the data still resides within the disk. Some SSD designs enable users to erase the entire disk in typically 5 seconds."