As someone who is constantly “randomly selected” for additional screenings at Newark Airport and whose bags are often publicly inspected by TSA agents, the notion of traveling with a portable SSD that looks like an explosive makes my head spin.
According to a quick Google translation of an image on this Lenovo Chinese crowdfunding page, the Savior Tactical Mobile SSD is an “authorized hardcore aluminum alloy grenade” portable storage device. Why a hand grenade? Based on the logos, it seems like a tie-in promotional product for Operation Hadal, an upcoming Chinese war movie. The trailer looks like your standard military action flick with dramatic closeups of brooding military men, submarines, and plenty of explosions. However, I did not see any USB Type-C hand grenades featured in the trailer.
The Savior Tactical Mobile SSD will cost 599 yuan (around $80). The specs aren’t detailed, though; Tom’s Hardware speculates that Lenovo may be using its existing Legion (which is called Savior in China) portable SSD as the base for the novelty SSD, which features 1TB of storage and data transfers up to 1,050MB/S.
The official crowdfunding page says the project is already 105% funded and has plenty of time left. This means it’ll likely become a product you could see someone whip out at a cafe. Since this product is based on a movie that likely won’t be released in North America, chances are that the Savior Tactical Mobile SSD won’t make its way to the States, but I’m sure you’ll be able to track one down if you look hard enough if and when it launches.
Airport security already gets pretty annoyed when you try to check a bag with a laptop in it, and there’s good reason for that; I can only imagine the commotion you’d set off if you sent this SSD through the X-ray machine. Listen, I get it. Some people enjoy the ‘tacticool‘ aesthetic, but let’s leave it at camo prints, for everyone’s sake.
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