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Evening,

 

Wanted to share this interesting intersection of marketing & technology, the write-once SSD. Correct this isn’t April Fools… Verbatim have announced a write-once SSD.

 

Theres a 10 year warranty against drive failure, it uses an exFAT file system and can be read by any OS supporting exFAT, but you require Win 10/11 and .Net 4.8 to install the proprietary software to write to the drive.

 

Somewhat unsurprisingly, there are huge caveats listed, effectively it’s not tested to destruction against experienced hackers, but a handy way to prevent accidental file deletion.

 

I wonder if we’ll start to see a market for this emerge…

Interested in the full story? I read it on Tom’s Hardware here: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/verbatim-write-once-ssd

Hmm this should be interesting.

How to increment product sales 😂

I’m struggling to see a use case for this.

If you want immutable storage, then you go for a hardened repository. At least that way you can specify a retention policy.

If you have to keep data permanently, then an archive tier or tape would probably be the way to go

This does look interesting. Wondering if it has be to plugged in regularly so the SSD can still ‘remember’ what is stored on it. 

 

I’m struggling to see a use case for this.

If you want immutable storage, then you go for a hardened repository. At least that way you can specify a retention policy.

If you have to keep data permanently, then an archive tier or tape would probably be the way to go

I can understand! If you aren’t using Veeam then this might be interesting as well as it prevents against accidental deletion. Therefore, I kinda agree with @Geoff_B on immutability, because of the native Linux immutable flag to protect files.

Found this product too the other day. It’s the right disk if money doesn't matter, I guess ...

I see a use case of this for things like escrow or “offline ship and seed” situations. 

or possibly use it for a data custody situation. Or when investigating security breaches or malware.

or possibly use it for a data custody situation. Or when investigating security breaches or malware.

Very good point.

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