Lenovo has revealed that it has designed a hand grenade-inspired exterior SSD. The design pays tribute to the lately launched China blockbuster struggle film Operation Dragon, also referred to as Operation Leviathan or Operation Hadal in some territories. Frequent fliers will in all probability wish to keep away from weapons-styled pc equipment and electronics like this, to stop any pointless delays when passing by security.
A machine translation of the blurb within the above picture reads: “Lenovo Crowdfunding – Savior Tactical Cellular SSD. Formally approved hardcore aluminum alloy grenade form. USB 3.2 high-speed protocol. Suitable with a number of specs of SSD.” There follows the logos for Lenovo Legion and Operation Hadal.
The highest-linked official Lenovo crowdfunder web page additionally signifies that the brand new grenade SSD is primed for crowdfunding success. Lenovo’s challenge is 69% funded with a number of days left, and fairly a number of studies in Chinese language language tech media in the present day spotlight this absurd product. It’s subsequently prone to be an explosive success (ba dum tss).
We do not have the specs for this Y599 (approx. $82) crowdfunded product besides the few talked about above. Nonetheless, the grenade-styled exterior SSD is predicted to characteristic 1TB of storage, carry out information transfers at as much as 1,050MB/s, and have a USB Kind-C interface. These specs are primarily based on the belief that the tactical SSD makes use of an present Lenovo Legion (AKA Savior in China) moveable SSD as its basis.
A brief historical past of weaponry styled PC parts
Lenovo’s struggle movie-inspired SSD is not the primary ill-advised design selection now we have seen foisted upon the PCs and electronics market. Gigabyte has beforehand been responsible of manufacturing motherboards with heatsinks which have been identified to set off airport scanners.
Maybe Gigabyte’s best-known airport safety examine obstacle was the G1 Murderer 2 motherboard. This Intel X79 chipset board featured a “redesigned distinctive signature heatpipe design… that it’s as lethal to warmth because it appears.” It appears like a pistol, and it even has a cranium biting a bowie knife on the grip. New Zealand airport safety ruined one among these motherboards with their investigations in 2015.
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Gigabyte would launch an nearly as audacious design with its Gaming G1 Sniper socket LGA 1366 motherboard. This featured a banana-mag heatsink design with a ‘bullet’ protruding from one finish.
MSI additionally has a penchant for military-themed motherboards, however its Bazooka, Mortar, and the like have all the time averted weapons-shaped heatsinks.
Nonetheless, a conveyable SSD might be extra prone to be carried by somebody onto a aircraft, so Lenovo’s ‘Tactical SSD’ perhaps even a worse concept than Gigabyte’s Murderer and Sniper merchandise.
