SSDs can survive drops and other forms of hostile therapy a lot better than onerous drives, however they will nonetheless be damaged if their PCB or one of many chips will get broken. For those that need to cut back their danger of shedding their knowledge, Buffalo has launched its new household of SSDs — the SSD-PSMU3 — that’s particularly designed to resist drops. Unlike typical rugged units, the brand new drives are moderately miniature and extra resemble flash drives.
Buffalo’s SSD-PSMU3 sequence SSDs are designed to endure MIL-STD 810G 516.6 Procedure IV drop take a look at, often called the ‘transit drop’. This signifies that the gadget was examined to survived six face drop assessments, eight nook drop assessments, and 12 edge drop assessments from a top of round 1.2 meters, remained in working situation and suffered no bodily of inside harm. The drives measure 33×9.5×59.5 mm and weigh 15 grams (dimensions and weight akin to these of a field of PEZ mints), so it shouldn’t be notably onerous to make them rugged sufficient to outlive drops from 1.2 meters.
The SSD-PSMU3 drives function a 120 GB, 250 GB, 480 GB, and 960 GB capability in addition to a USB 3.2 Gen 1 Micro-B interface that connects them to their hosts utilizing a USB Type-A or a USB Type-C cable. Buffalo charges the drives for about 430 MB/s throughput, however contemplating the interface used, we’re most likely one thing close to ~400 MB/s as a consequence of overhead incurred by 8b/10b encoding.
The rugged SSDs absolutely assist Buffalo’s SecureLock Mobile2 expertise that encodes knowledge utilizing an AES-256 key. Meanwhile, it’s unclear whether or not encryption is completed utilizing {hardware} or software program. In addition, the drives assist SMART operate and can be utilized with Mimamori Signal software program that predicts failures of storage parts based mostly on SMART knowledge.
Set to be out there in white, aquamarine, and pink, Buffalo’s rugged SSD-PSMU3 drives will hit the cabinets in Japan beginning March 4. The least expensive 120 GB drive will price ¥5,700 ($54) with out VAT, whereas the best capability 960 GB mannequin will likely be priced at ¥22,300 ($210) with out taxes.
Source: Buffalo (through Hermitage Akihabara)
