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‘Mission: Impossible’ IRL? Device self-destructs at push of a button

  • A data storage device self-destructs at the push of a button, enabling quick file deletion even without power.
  • The P250Q SSD by Team Group has a hardware destruction process lasting about 10 seconds, making stored data unrecoverable.
  • It features a powerful surge of electricity that irreversibly destroys the NAND flash memory chips.
  • Team Group aims to innovate safer storage solutions for industrial and military applications.
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‘Mission: Impossible’ IRL? Device self-destructs at push of a button

Available in storage sizes up to 2TB, the company says the product is engineered to meet the stringent security standards.

Team Group has just released a SSD that can literally commit suicide to order by getting the circuits burned as in Mission Impossible. And no, I'm not kidding because the P250Q, that's its little name, is equipped with a patented independent destruction circuit that can melt the Flash memory chip by sending an overvoltage directly into its bowels. So, of course, that's not the kind of thing we're going to find in Timeo's PC gaming. No, this SSD …

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Team Group has developed an M.2 SSD, which destroys all data at the push of a button or completely destroys itself. (Solid State Drive, storage media)

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techeblog.com broke the news in on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
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