Sanitization and GMS Disk Drives
Excluding legacy systems, GMS uses only Solid-State Drives (SSDs) for speed and reliability. For example, the X9 Spider system accepts SSDs for storage, only in M.2 or 2.5-inch form factors, either SATA or NVMe® interfaces.
Customers and their military programs may have cybersecurity requirements to erase or “sanitize” SSDs, a process also known as “zeroizing” the drive. All modern GMS systems like the X9 family include singular or comprehensive (system-wide) sanitization capabilities such as SecureDNA™—all of which end up at erasing the SSD itself.