A-DATA's SH93 hard drive is probably more daring than you are
By Donald Melanson 
posted Oct 5th 2009 3:01PM
posted Oct 5th 2009 3:01PM
A-DATA already has slim and colorful portable hard drives covered, but it looks like it's now done one better with its new SH93 model, which adds a dash of ruggedness for good measure. That includes waterproofing compliant with IEC 529 IPX7 standards (or up to one meter deep for 30 minutes), shock-proofing to MIL-STD-810F standards for drops and general jostling and, of course, a bright yellow or red rubber enclosure that's almost begging you to toss it across the room. No word on pricing just yet, but it looks like this one will be available in your choice of 250GB, 320GB, 500GB or 640GB capacities, and presumably sometime soon.
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Hit em again, Endo.
More daring?..then why is it sweating?
Plug THAT into your computer...
It really is begging to be tossed, run over, punished, etc.
Perfect for cooling it... "Uh? too hot? easy, dump it in a bowl of ice water for a couple of mins ^_^
if its water proofed how the does the hard-drive breath? sound like premature failure waiting to happen....
There's air inside the waterproof case. The only reason drives need that hole is so they can equalize air pressure. If they don't have the hole and you go up in elevation, or get a really low pressure system in your area, the top plate could swell slightly and throw things out of alignment.
That actually looks genuinely useful. Mobile hard drives get bashed around so much, and most of them aren't built to be used as anything other than a smaller desktop hard drive. This thing looks like it could actually take the abuse of living inside someone's laptop bag for most of it's life. Nice.
Throw some Rebit software on that and your laptop would be industrial-strength backed-up.
looks like those exposed usb plugs will be the Achilles heel.
Sweet, now Bear Grylls can backup his Toughbook while eating a tarantula, and rafting over a waterfall.
As Ray Mears laughs with pity, whilst brushing his teeth with nettles.
Just don't try to drop it/hit it while the drive is running...
The perfect solution when sharing porn with a Yeti.
Rugged hard-drive? LOL. In the end, it's still a spinning platter. Can you spin it while it's running? I can spin an SSD while doing file transfer to it without any worries. :P