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A new line of portable drives was launched by ioSafe. This is known to be amongst the most rugged portable drives in the world, which was proven after numerous first-hand demonstrations at the ioSafe laboratory as well as other testing zones. This came to the front during CES when ioSafe went on offering the new model in both spinning platters and solid state drive versions. ioSafe made the casing of this portable drive in to a ‘Full Metal Jacket’ which essentially made out of a strong combination of Aluminum and Titanium. The drives are designed to work in adverse climatic conditions and extreme abuse. Think 12 gauge shotgun fire and being dropped from 10 ft high several times and you’ll know what I am talking about.
ioSafe CEO Robb Moore was seen to have a confident look on his face, almost meaning to challenge anybody who can prove that his drivers are not as rugged as he describes them to be. One and all accepted defeat as soon as they received first-hand demos. The Rugged Drives are shock-proof, crush-proof, water-and chemical-proof, but cannot be guaranteed against fire. This is because then, the drive would not be ‘portable’. ioSafe provides its customers with warranty to repair and re-adjust the portable anytime within the warranty period. Even if it is proved that a purchaser has done the damage on purpose, ioSafe will still provide free data recovery service — underscoring their promise to deliver extremely safe data storage.
ioSafe had earlier manufactured its series of desktops that are known for their water-proof and fire-proof qualities. In other words, ioSafe produces products that are ‘disaster-proof’ protecting both external spinning platter disks and solid state-based drives along with 3.5” internal drive modules. The prices range from $149 for 250GB and $399 for 1TB for the new Rugged Portable series which comes in aluminum casing along with the manufacturing company details. The drive that provides with such details is of the manufacturer company Seagate with multiple options like 250GB @5400RPM, 500GB @5400RPM, 750GB @7200RPM and 1TB @5400RPM.
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It is true though that ioSafe drives are not the cheapest storage solutions available available but they are not trying to beat everyone else at price. Their selling point is purely the strength and ruggedness of their drives that can withstand things no other drives can. Warranty period is generally for a year but that is extendable up to 5 years with an additional investment of around $100. This would include free data recovery service as well as replacement of the damaged products. These new drives are resistant to 2500lb of exerted force, drops of up to10feet drop and are water-proof even when submerged in 10feet water level for 3 days while staying plugged in. It can withstand oil, petrol, diesel, rain dust, salt fog and ice for a day and is workable up to altitudes of 15000feet. If this does not impress, then you are probably part of some secret military research that we don’t know about. Send us an email!
This portable drive is so resistive that even gun-shots on it do not matter much. It so happened that one of the journalists was made to shoot on it and after the latter shot it, the drive casing got completely damaged but Moore took it back as it was and showed that data was still recoverable and readable. So the end game was that these drives really do deliver what they promise and probably a bit more — rarity in the times of inflated promises and low budgets. See it in action in the video below.
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