Look,
ioSafe said when it was announced that the Solo external HDD was rugged enough to withstand both fire and submersion in water, so really, it was only a matter of time before at least one of those things happened, right? The hardy woodsmen over at TestFreaks have taken ioSafe at its word and run a 500GB version through the paces. Running it through the benchmarks, they found that the Solo holds up very well when compared with similar makes with regards to speed and performance -- it gets the job done, if you will. Transfer rates were a bit slower when put up against a
Seagate BlackArmor WS110 -- but not enough to be terribly disappointing. The real fun, of course, comes with the drowning of the poor little hard drive. Now, we don't want to give anything away, but we'll say this: watch the video (which is after the break) all the way to the end when the protector of Camp Crystal Lake makes a stunning, shocking performance. Hit the read link for the full review, a ton of photos, and even more video.
posted August 8th 2009 6:22AM
throwing it in the ocean..saltwater would have been more convincing...my thumbdrives take a good washing and drying all the time and come out like champs.i know the whole mechanical parts reasoning here but if you think about it..arent hard drives sealed anyways to keep dust out of the sensitive platter area?
Makes sense, maybe try dunking it into a bathtub full of salt water.
They are sealed but not to withstand several atmospheres, and they actually have a filtered tiny opening (the well known 'do not cover' bit) to prevent extreme pressure differences, plus the electronics just sit there in the open.
Am I missing something about the park protector?
He probably IS the "protector".
"makes a stunning, shocking performance"
I taught my hard-drive to swim.
I'm thinking in a few years a shady accountant will turn up in a lake somewhere with one of these attached to 'get rid of the evidence"......if only they'd known.
Oh well, I going to go make a performance, myself.
Is it rugged enough to withstand bad sectors? Head crash? In the end, it's still a bunch of spinning platters.
i don't see the interesting point in these videos. throw it out from a plain, put it in a microwave or something, but just put it in a river is kind of boring...
Hans, apparently you missed the point of submerging it into water. You suggest just using a microwave?
How about a pool or tub of water? Those are much more like a river.
Wow! I can't believe the end of that video! Jason didn't show up at all and nothing even happened! I'm stunned with sarcasm!
Seriously though, will it blend? I'm genuinely intrested.
because the thing isn't the size of a small computer right? Do you really think that thing would fit in the blender?
Apparently God has no sense of humor. Altho TBH, Poo_and_Wee has a underdeveloped sense of humor as well.
Tossing a HDD and enclosure in a stream? Couldnt he have tried it in a bucket to minimize the potential release of contaminants?
He couldn't because he's an idiot.
That would be much less fun though.
"potential release of contaminants"
You know I've never felt a need to say bad words about environmentalists, but you push it so far that it's damn hard to not say harsh word about you being an idiot in unpleasant terms.
I watched this shit and Jason never showed up. blah
But will it burn?
http://www.geardiary.com/2009/08/04/could-your-hard-drive-survive-this-if-its-an-iosafe-yep/
What happens when water gets into the power strip/outlet that it's plugged into? What happens when the fire burns the insulation on the wiring and the pos. + neg. touch and it shorts it out from the inside?
So, instead of yanking it off of the desk on your way out of your burning/flooding home, you just yank the plugs out of the back and leave your SUPER-important data there?
seems like a pretty useless setup.
on-site backup to a separate external --> store it under your desk --> grab it on the way out when something bad happens/take it with you if you're leaving your place for extended periods or keep it off-site and back up once every two weeks. seems like a smarter/cheaper solution that's not prone to the aforementioned shortfalls. that's how I do it.
Or, like any ordinary fire safe, its there in case you aren't home or can't get to it in an emergency... in which case there's a good chance it's off anyway.
What happens if you are in the center of a nuclear blast or go through the van allen belt with no protection whatsoever and perhaps then fly through the center of the sun?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt
Finally we get a voice for Mr. Blurrycam!
Prok, sockets are easy to waterproof, and I inagine the wires have a really high melting temp (Take a look at your water heter, esp if it is a gas heater. All wires on it are fire resistant incase a flame gets out of control, it dosnt end up shorting things out and making a bigger problem).
I could probably see this being used "in the field", but as far as home solutions go, off-site backups are easier.
Oh and man, what is with that god awful camera/cell phone? it was getting like one frame per second!
He grunts too much on both his vids. But interesting product.
I made it about 1 minute in. "bubble bubble bubble, bubble bubble bubble."
Yeah, if I wanted to watch a kid throw stuff into a stream, I'd go to m neighbor's house. This guy needs to cough up the $30 for a tripod and another $5 for a piece of rawhide to shove into his mouth.
OMG, I totally agree. Stupid, stupid, stupid!
Tell us who won this for the recession giveaway so we can flog'em with trouts and rubber chickens!
I saw this movie like 6 months ago... this is old and dumb
The sequel is directed by Tim Burton. Due out this time next year.
I want the fire test. Leave it running on your computer and burn your house down. Sift through the ruble and see if you can pull your data off. Isn't that the real reason to buy this hard drive?
Exactly, and that's possible Firefighters have drills where they go into a staged room and practice putting it out. That exact scnario could be set up easily, and that would be the best test.
The biggest part of this particular test is the water. Water will seep into a harddrive. Otherwise, electronics can get wet, just as long as they are 100% dry before they are powered.
Hey, I have that screw driver. It was a free promotion from Lowe's and Kobalt for some online club I joined. Hooray.
Heh... I did this with my old Sansa e280R... Luckily I had recently made a nice case out of an altoids case :3 It survived nicely :D I'm also glad my bro was there cause otherwise I wouldn't have been able to find it in the rapids ._.
These will sell like hotcakes, in Florida and New Orlean
I remember an incident 10 years ago at a theatre in Copenhagen.
I was returning the next morning discovering all electricity were gone because of a short cicuit caused by a LaCie SCSI drive that had gone for a swim.
On stage was a shallow bassin (approx 2-3 inches of water) where the instruments of a folk/rock band was setup (performing in gumboots (-; )
The drive (connected to sampler) was attached to a keyboard stand with duct tape which had given in during the night so the drive had fallen 3 feet down into the water while still spinning.
It looked like the fan had propelled the enclosure for a little cruise because the SCSI cable was tensioned, but the earth faullt relay had problably kicked in immediately.
Anyhow, the enclosure was disassembled, the drive and psu was dried carefully and was later powerred up and happy spinning with out loss of data or hardware.
Likewise a roland sh-101 synth went to the bottom of lake when it was placed on a board of polystyren foam at a photo session. It survived, being dried completety and after working all the knobs and faders a little it was back to mint condition.
Electronics and water is just fine as long as the power is removed immediately and it is allowed to dry completely. Salt water is a different thing ;-)