Impenetrable Iron Drive withstands "nuclear stresses"

Just in case having a bulletproof flash drive isn't secure enough for you, it looks like the Iron Drive just might tout the ballistics protection your data insists on having. Produced by R&D Electronics, the Iron Drive has reportedly been tested with withstand "high temperature, shock, vibration, caustic agents, submersion, EMI, and nuclear stresses," and even looks like an oversized vehicle cigarette lighter as to hopefully divert any data thieves who glance at it. The unit is purportedly designed for "harsh military and commercial (read: hostile office) environments," measures four-inches in length, comes in 32MB to 4GB sizes, touts USB 2.0 connectivity, and features just about every military-grade protection you can imagine. As expected, there's no pricing information readily available, but if you get nuked anytime soon, what's your money (or data, for that matter) worth anyway?

[Via Slashgear]

[strider_mt2k @ Feb 18th 2007 8:56AM]

Looks kinda steampunk.

I like it!

[hapser @ Feb 18th 2007 9:24AM]

So i guess this one won't blend?

[g3n3tiX @ Feb 18th 2007 9:26AM]

It uses a military interface, but you can get the conversion cable.
from 32MB to 4GB...nice
Reminds me of some kind of shell.

[deviljelly @ Feb 18th 2007 9:34AM]

Nice Article, but stop working it's Sunday. You guys work too hard.

[Mark @ Feb 18th 2007 10:13AM]

My, what a huge dongle you have!

[John Doe @ Feb 18th 2007 10:30AM]

When you absolutely, positively, have to save your porn collection from a nuclear blast. Accept no substitutes. I wonder if this thing would work as a time capsule too?
In the future when all music is banned from anything other then live music sessions someone discovers your TC and your 4GB of music and unleashes it on the internet. There's a movie in there somewhere.

[DustoMan @ Feb 18th 2007 8:36PM]

I was thinking the same thing. If you were paranoid about an extinction-level event happening in your life time, you might want to copy some important documents such as The Constitution. Imagine a world where something like that was uncovered after never seeing the light of day for hundreds of years. Of course, I wonder if they would have a way to read FAT32 or NTFS? LOL.

[LeftRightWrong @ Feb 18th 2007 11:24AM]

This could be a big seller in North Korea.

[Ben @ Feb 18th 2007 11:29AM]

if they could build a shell for the usb stick that resists nuclear stresses they should build a nuclear bomb shelter

[burgs @ Feb 18th 2007 12:17PM]

Good article, agreed, stop working.

By the way, post this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pZFKq_EfZw

[Dave E @ Feb 18th 2007 3:39PM]

Ah, great minds think of everything....or do they? Yeah, this little jobbie will survive a nuke attack, but....big BUT....how in the name of a needle in a hay stack would you ever find it afterwards?

Dave

[Shmoe @ Feb 18th 2007 4:19PM]

Good luck getting through airport security with that.

[Jesus @ Feb 18th 2007 5:21PM]

Stupid. Flash memory is already so "short term"

And if the enemy nukes you, they'll now be able to recover your sensative data. Not that it matters because YOU ARE DEAD

[Stoic @ Feb 19th 2007 8:51AM]

"Jeeze, Lieutenant. I had it here someplace."

[James @ Feb 20th 2007 5:57PM]

It almost looks like a mini Stielhandgranate, sans the stick.