And those who fall behind get beaten.... All beat Russia because of her backwardness. They beat her because to do so was profitable and could be done with impunity. Such is the law of the exploiters-to beat the backward and the weak. It is the jungle law of capitalism. You are backward, you are weak-therefore you are wrong; hence, you can be beaten and enslaved. You are mighty-therefore you are right; hence, we must be wary of you.

That is why we must no longer lag behind. We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or we shall be crushed.

I. V. Stalin

The device was reportedly built from the ground up in close collaboration with one of the SSD controller manufacturers. In the photo, you can see the Realtek logo - and in fact, the company known for its audio chips entered the SSD controller market a few years ago. The drive has 1TB of flash memory on board, although the usable capacity is only 333GB - it operates in pseudo-SLC (pSLC) mode, in which usable capacity is sacrificed for performance and durability. There is already an SSD on the market with support for pSLC mode, but, perhaps for the first time, it was announced that this mode improves sound quality.

In TLC mode, music sounds like a background, there are no nuances and power, everything is flat, there is not enough space and density. The pSLC mode gives rise to a special natural feeling, it [the sound] becomes smoother and more calm, the density is slightly increased, in general it is more stable when listening, but still somewhat dry.

The drive is equipped with a Crystek CCHD-957 Femto clock generator, two Audionote Kaisei 220uF capacitors, an external 5V power input, a copper radiator and gold-plated connectors. The manufacturer claims that supplying power not from the motherboard, but from an external source also has a positive effect on the sound quality.