Foremay Releases Avalanche® Secure Erase Suite for SSD Drives

Aug. 18, 2010 - PRLog -- SANTA CLARA, California – At the Flash Memory Summit 2010, Foremay, Inc., one of the world’s Top 10 SSD OEMs, today announced the Avalanche® Secure Erase Suite which is a complete disk purge solution for solid state drive and flash hard drives. With Avalanche secure erase solutions, a SSD user can now has freedom to choose one or more out of Foremay’s three types of secure erase methods – the software based secure clean, a.k.a., Type I method; the hybrid software and hardware based secure delete, a.k.a., Type II method; and the hardware based one key self-destroy disk erase, a.k.a., Type III method. All three types of secure erase methods work as SSD hard drive eraser to completely erase hard drive within short period of time.

“In a regular SSD, deleting a file only removes its name from the directory or file table. User data remains until overwritten by new data. Even reformatting the SSD also leaves data intact,” said Jack Winters, CTO of Foremay, during the Flash Security workshop and panel at the Flash Memory Summit 2010, “the Avalanche Secure Erase Suite deploys various technologies to overwrite or destroy all user data in allocated blocks, file tables, and data in reallocated defective blocks. It is engineered to execute hard drive erase, and to erase files permanently”

After secure erase files with Avalanche technologies, one can now either dispose or transfer an SSD safely without worry about information leakage, or destroy physically the flash memory in side an SSD.  Some application examples of secure erase include,

- Mission Critical Applications
- Military and Defense
- Government Systems
- Public Health and Social Security Administrations
- Financial and Insurance Institutions
- Banking Systems
- High Reliable Enterprise
- High Reliable Stock / Security Exchange
- Public Security
- Medical Equipment

The Avalanche Secure Erase Suite supports a variety of solid state drive interfaces such as SATA, IDE, PCIe, CF, SAS, ZIF and industrial USB. In addition, the Avalanche also support various types of standards for secure erase methods for enterprise SSD, industrial SSD and military SSD including,

- Fill with all “0” or all “1”
- Random fill
- IREC (IRIG) 106
- DoD 5220.22-M
- Air Force AFSSI 5020
- NSA Manual 130-2
- Navy NAVSO P-5239-26
- Army 380-19
- NISPOMSUP Chap 8, Sect. 8-501
- Gutmann method
- Customized fill

Avalanche Secure Erase Suite Availability

To obtain a copy of Foremay CTO’s presentation titled “Secure Erase Options for Solid State Drives” on the Flash Memory Summit 2010, or more information on Avalanche Secure Erase Suite solutions, please contact info@foremay.net


About Foremay

Founded in the Silicon Valley in 2002, Foremay, Inc., is a leading company dedicated to technology innovations in Solid State Drives ( SSD ) for high-reliability mission-critical computing, industrial computing and enterprise computing. Foremay's vision is to bring to market high reliability, high ruggedness and high performance solid state drives with “Green Initiatives” in mind. Foremay is headquartered in the Pasadena, California, USA. For more information and product details please visit www.foremay.net


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