This USB-C SSD can destroy itself. Practical if data is not allowed into the wrong hands. (Image source: Teamgroup)
External data carriers with sensitive information can take care of the users for one or the other stressful – what if the data gets into the wrong hands? Or if the data carrier really has to be destroyed? Data rescue companies are said to be true miracle things.
Team group has on the Computex 2025 Now presented an external SSD that does not appeal to a very large target group, but may make it sleep better: The Expert P35S comes with a built -in killswitch.
Teamgroup Expert P35S
: Quickly filled, quickly destroyed
Teamgroup accepts that the drive does not offer a noticeable added value for many users. The SSD is intended for a target group that deals with sensitive data and also has to transport it. The manufacturer speaks of agents, journalists and creators.
Destroyed Portable SSD in large letters – whether this is the best advertising for a drive that ideally has not yet been destroyed when buying? (Image source: Future)
In the latter, however, there are fewer tictok influencers, but rather employees in production studios who have not yet had to transport public assets or films.
The drive can destroy the data in two stages using a switch: Either the contents of the memory cells are only deleted or, if the activity is long, the drive is physically destroyed.
Of course, like the film Mission Impossible, it doesn't work on in flames, and our teaser image is only symbolic of destruction
to understand. Instead, an overvoltage is generated inside that destroy the built -in components.
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Away from agent ability a solid SSD
Even if the Killswitch is the unique selling point of the TeamGroup Expert P35S, it is otherwise a good and brisk SSD. The two TB capacity are thanks USB 3.2 Gen 2 with 10 GBit/s quite briskly filled.
Of course there are faster and also smaller and lighter drives, but you have to do a little more effort in order to delete the data safely.
And not everyone has a sufficiently strong power source ready quickly enough if suddenly enemy agents or investigative film fan podcaster want the data to manually grill their drive.
Also presented: SSD cooling with water or AI
Internal SSDs for PCIe Gen5 tend to achieve a performance -lowering temperature if used for a long time. This will improve with increasingly efficient controllers, but such drives still need good cooling.
Careful speculation: very few will actually be able to benefit from the AI cooler with an inner life of high-tech, while the price should not be low. (Image source: Future)
If you don't want to rely on a bung metal cooling body, you will also find solutions at Teamgroup. The T-Force Ai-Flow X Charged, for example, relies on thermoelectric heat release -Apparently a Peltier element.
AI should now ensure the best compromise of warmth and airflow. In addition to the thermoelectric heat release, there is also a small air cooler.
The manufacturer does not reveal any further information, but it would be interesting to know whether the cooler will ultimately absorb more energy (and also release again in the form of heat) than the SSD itself.
Also more for special interests is that T-Force GD120T, which can include three SSDs into a water cooling circle. This can also bring an advantage in the clean water-cooled PCs, as fast gene 5 drives can get warm and can overheat without air flow.
Now you are asked: Would you have use for the SSD with self -destruction option?
