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• Military packaging
• Built-in encryption and multiple key management modes
• No backdoors
• Military Grade data purging and sanitization
• A family of trusted tools
• SSD building blocks
• Data preservation
• Trusted supply chain and longer lives
• Military Grade SSD options
Introduction
This document introduces the considerations for selecting Solid-
State Drives (SSDs) for mission-critical, high-reliability and high-
security applications. This overview augments Mercury's white
paper, Safeguarding Mission Critical Data with Secure Storage
Solutions which offers a more detailed study of the consequences
associated with selecting a commercial or enterprise-grade SSD for
military or aerospace applications.
Mercury has leading expertise in the rugged, secure storage
domain, leveraging twenty years of industry experience designing
and building defense grade storage devices. Our proven solutions
are found in manned, unmanned, military and commercial mission
and data recording applications that require robust built-in security,
data protection and purge capabilities. Our most rugged and secure
drives form our Military Grade portfolio of SSDs.
Secure Military Grade Solid State Drives Overview
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Mercury Systems is a leading commercial provider of secure
sensor and safety-critical processing subsystems. Optimized for
customer and mission success, Mercury's solutions power a wide
variety of critical defense and intelligence programs.
Figure 1. Secure Military Grade SSD rugged packaging
Military packaging
Consumer and enterprise data storage is transitioning from rotary,
magnetic media to SSDs comprised of dense, rugged NAND flash
memory. With no moving parts, NAND flash-based drives are a
requirement for all military and aerospace mission-critical applications.
Today, military needs are driving data storage requirements far beyond
deployable ruggedness in to the domains of robust data security,
purging and sanitization.
Figure 2. Secure Military Grade SSD rugged interconnects