Why it issues: Verbatim has introduced a brand new solid-state drive designed particularly for long-term storage. The firm’s WOV Series is an exterior SSD that packs 128GB of NAND flash and connects to your PC through USB 3.2 Gen 1. Verbatim is pitching it as a write-protected SSD, that means you’ll be able to solely learn from it underneath regular situations.
In order to jot down to the drive, it’s essential to first set up a devoted piece of software program that’s solely suitable with Windows 10 or Windows 11. The drive does work with Windows, Mac, and Chromebook, however is restricted to read-only mode. The thought is to guard mission-critical recordsdata from being by chance deleted or overwritten.
Read and write speeds are rated at 540 MB/s and 180 MB/s, respectively. You’ll should take Verbatim’s phrase for this because the drive will error out when making an attempt to run a benchmark program.
Verbatim mentioned it used high-quality MLC NAND flash within the drive. Because it is not being recorded over time and again, there’s little or no deterioration to fret about. As such, Verbatim claims customers can anticipate knowledge to stay intact for 10 years or longer when saved at a temperature of 55 Celsius or cooler.
Speaking of, the drive is backed by a 10-year {hardware} guarantee by which Verbatim will substitute a nasty drive throughout this era. Notably, the guarantee doesn’t assure saved knowledge so you may possible desire a secondary backup as a fail secure. What’s extra, Verbatim says knowledge can’t be erased and the one approach to successfully achieve this is to bodily destroy the SSD.
No phrase but on when the Verbatim WOV Series SSD will launch or how a lot it’s going to retail for.
