INTRODUCTION

   PIN authenticated drives may only be a very small percentage of the storage industry currently but they've been rising in popularity steadily for the past several years especially among professionals (both individuals and government employees) who place data security/safety above performance and of course cost. Still there are always some who also care about performance so most PIN authenticated drives in the market are available with both "regular" hard disk drives and the much faster solid state drives (SSDs). Now although we've yet to see PIN authenticated portable SSDs based on M.2 NVMe models and the USB 3.1 Gen2 protocol (thus allowing for much higher data transfer performance) there are quite a few USB 3.1 Gen1 models based on SATA III/600 2.5" drives and after testing their award winning diskAshur PRO2 by iStorage today with us we have the diskAshur2 1TB SSD.

   iStorage is the trusted global leader of award winning PIN authenticated, hardware encrypted data storage devices. Delivering the most innovative products to securely store and protect data to military specified encryption levels; safeguarding valuable business information whilst ensuring compliance to regulations and directives.

   The diskAshur2 1TB SSD (the diskAshur2 line includes hard disk drive models in 500GB/1TB/2TB/3TB/4TB/5TB capacities and solid state drive models in 128/256/512/1TB/2TB/4TB capacities) by iStorage offers the same exact feature set as the rest of the current diskAshur2 family of PIN authenticated (platform/device independent / 7-15 digit codes) drives so it's yet another completely tamper-proof (protected against brute attacks, external tamper, bypass laser attacks and fault injections) USB 3.1 portable drive. The diskAshur2 line also incorporates real-time military grade FIPS PUB 197 validated AES-XTS 256-bit hardware encryption (common criteria EAL4+ microprocessor) along with an epoxy covered keypad (makes it virtually impossible for people to tell which have been used), interior hardware components covered with a super tough layer of epoxy resin (virtually impossible to remove without causing severe damage) and an IP56 certified (dust and water resistant) rubber coated enclosure (available in red, blue, green and black colors). For all of you who may be wondering as to what SSD models iStorage is using for their diskAshur2 line it's actually the same as with their slightly more advanced (sports more security certifications) diskAshur PRO2 line so once again we see the SU800 2.5" model by ADATA (based on the Silicon Motion SM2258 NAND controller with 3D TLC NAND).