Solid state storage data destruction
AssigneeJPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
InventorTrevis A. Halladay
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Abstract
A system and method of permanently erasing the contents of a Solid-State Drive (SSD) which involves the destruction of the storage portion of the SSD by rapidly heating that portion of the SSD to a state at which the semiconductor devices which make up the SSD are destroyed or damaged. The system and method allows a user to locally or remotely erase a SSD drive to prevent the contents of the drive from being compromised. Certain embodiments of the system and method provide for the automatic destruction of the SSD should the device be connected to an unregistered drive controller.
Claims20
A solid-state drive (SSD) destruction system, the system comprising:
- an induction coil proximate to a SSD;
- an energy storage device;
- a switch device that is connected to the induction coil and the energy storage device;
- and,
- a controller device in communication with the switch device and a communication bus that is between a control circuitry associated with the SSD and a drive controller,
- wherein the controller device is configured to:
- store an association between the SSD and the drive controller, the association including an affiliation between a SSD identifier and a drive controller identifier;
- determine whether the SSD identifier and the drive controller identifier match the stored association;
- and
- when the SSD identifier and the drive controller identifier do not match the stored association,
- control the switch device to regulate energy discharged from the energy storage device into the induction coil such that heat generated by the discharged energy destroys data stored in the SSD.
A method for automatically destroying a solid-state drive (SSD), the method comprising:
- storing, by a controller, an association between a SSD and a drive controller, the association including an affiliation between a SSD identifier and a drive controller identifier;
- determining, by the controller, whether the SSD identifier and the drive controller identifier match the stored association;
- receiving, by the controller, a SSD destruction command when the SSD identifier and the drive controller identifier do not match the stored association;
- determining, by the controller, a charge level of an energy storage device;
- and,
- operating, by the controller, a switch device to regulate energy discharge from the energy storage device to an induction coil proximate to a SSD, such that the heat generated by the energy discharge destroys data stored in the SSD.
A solid-state drive (SSD) destruction system, the system comprising:
- an induction coil proximate to a SSD, the SSD having an enclosure and an enclosure intrusion detection device;
- an energy storage device;
- a switch device that is connected to the induction coil and the energy storage device;
- and,
- a controller device in communication with the enclosure intrusion detection device, the switch device, and a communication bus that is between a control circuitry associated with the SSD and a drive controller,
- wherein the controller device is configured to store an association between the SSD and the drive controller, the association including an affiliation between a SSD identifier and a drive controller identifier;
- and
- wherein when the enclosure intrusion detection device detects an intrusion of the SSD enclosure, the controller device is further configured to:
- determine whether the SSD identifier and the drive controller identifier match the stored association;
- and
- control the switch device to regulate energy discharged from the energy storage device into the induction coil when the SSD identifier and the drive controller identifier do not match the stored association such that heat generated by the discharged energy destroys data stored in the SSD.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.