ioSafe Solo SSD plays with fire, gravity, and the pathway of a tractor
By Ross Miller 
posted January 10th 2010 3:19PM
posted January 10th 2010 3:19PM
posted January 10th 2010 3:19PM
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Saw this last week, you guys are late
Seriously, Gizmodo has this up day one of CES.
@DarkElfa It's a waste to test outlandish survivability claims by a manufacturer?
Yeah. Right.
yOU gUYZ ARE TEH LAMEZ.
TMZ HAD THIS 5 MONTHS AGO.
@(Unverified)
that wasnt the SSD version of the ioSafe you douche
@iwasalive It was a joke probably, but still, DOUCHE
but can it outsmart bullets?
@Pedobear
When it's ready, it won't have to.
@jon i am loving that matrix reference. good job.
@dovlatyanr
I almost forgot about the Matrix and took it as a TF2 reference.
:x
@jon
comment of the day. Absolutely made mine :)
@DarkElfa if you can see this, you ARE the resistance.
Nostradamus predicted this like a bajillion years ago, gosh.
"Spoiler alert: the SSD drive is still functional in the end"
That isn't a spoiler alert. That's the spoiler.
@Ade everything except visitors, apparently.
But will it blend!
@vaggelisz
I'm afraid I have something much more interesting in store for you..
http://www.youtube.com/user/bigshredder
You know it has to happen.
The BBC's video is much higher quality and shows them burning it as well!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8449893.stm
I have two of these drives and I LOVE em. Quiet.. and they have this killer blue to purple glow as my backups hum along happily. One at the office and one at home and at home. I'm not hearing the fan and especially not the drive (units are under the desk/bottom shelf). It was a non-config easy setup of course. Formatted NTFS so my WinXP SP3 kicked in to gear without a thought. The speed isn't the Firewire speeds I'm used to (don't start with USB2.0 vs Firewire technical specs... Firewire's pipeline rocks for me), but with my backups running overnight or "low" during the day... top speed doesn't really matter to me. If I can just make it through my first imaging session of 6 computers. Zzzzzzzzzzz.... past that, should be nice and smooth.
Lights out here looks pretty cool as well. The lights match my blue Griffin knob (he he, he said "knob") and Razer mouse... and as all of you know, that's more important than the tech or survivability of these drives... am I right!? Come-on! High Five!! Yea!!... who's with.... hello? ... hello?? anyone? :-/
Regardless... I do recommend these drives. But then again, who the hell am I?
@imtigger2 ... OOOPS... need to CLARIFY!
I have the original 1.5TB Solo units. That's what I was yapping on and on about. If you made it that far. ;-)
@imtigger2
You talking to yourself makes your comment highly ranked in my book, plus you posted a somewhat decent review of using the device. Got me convinced I need more blue lights near my computer anyway.
@Ade
Your site blows. You steal blog posts and post them as your own with no link back to the original site. You have no talent and even less integrity.
But i think it will blend... !
I don't understand the crappy quality of the video. If you're going to go through the trouble of acquiring access to a piece of machinery like that, can't you at least spring for a $50 tripod?
@DarkElfa There's a point to these kinds of thing, so they don't break, if they don't test it they're just supposed to hope for the best?
yea..but can it withstand a beating from Chuck Norris..I think not!
@loopyoyo
Can The Chuck Norris survive being run over by a tractor? I think not.
@fatslug You know what happen to the last truck that chuck was in in?......Optimus Prime
@fatslug
I wouldn't be so sure about that...
@DarkElfa
the definition of "waste" varies from one person to another
From what has been recorded there's little to no chance of that being survivable, the ssd they pulled from this device seems as if it's not been marked what so ever. The case must be made by some weird freak strong metal, and between it and the drive.... Air otherwise it's going to wreck the drive itself.
Wow, marketing inefficiency @ its best. I run a small business, my boss would have my @$$ for producing something like that. What was your goal? To have the tech community go “wow great video. Where I order one” well you missed the mark. Now we believe your product is just full of hype. At your next board meeting when hey ask how was the video received? Have them check out all these responses from here and Engadget. Well done. The process of marketing is to think through the process and make sure the idea is properly communicated.
@rbinc426 And most importantly, make sure it actually works.
@nikescar Considering the amount of pirated software, music, and video he has, I suggest reporting him to...
1: Wordpress, his host
2: MPAA, for the various recent movies hosted/uploaded
3: RIAA, for the various "not in stores" albums hosted/uploaded
4: Electronic Software Association, for the various games hosted/uploaded
@DarkElfa That's why you're one of the people that probably buys faulty products with inflated prices... because you "think" they work.
Like most Engadget readers, we work for ourselves or someone else that’s anal borderline OCD. I can’t even send an email without it being read 4 times for surface errors. I would love to work for one of these tech companies my job would be easy.
STEP 1) Make product
STEP 2) Give it to Engadget and test it until they break it.
STEP 3) Release product.
STEP 4) Cash fat Check.
P.S- I Manage our small business IT Dept. I love the word NAS. Its like my other fav. 3 letter word. ;-)
@DarkElfa If it holds up to something extreme in testing, people feel like their product will almost certainly withstand the daily shocks and stresses of office life for years.
@DarkElfa
I recommend never watching any IIHS crash tests in that case, especially of expensive cars. Of course, such "waste" makes sure you survive in that accident you will get into.
hmm, the 35k ton tractor roll was an overkill unless this drive was used in a battlefield. Even if it was used in a battlefield it won't survive all that weight as it wasn't engineered to support 35k ton + force on top of it.
I wonder if I should do a YouTube search for other videos of the ioSafe SSD rather than turning my brain on auto-douche comment?
*searches youtube*
Oh, wow. Interestingly enough I learned that the company that paid all that money to run over their own hard drive (ioSafe) did it because their product actually works afterward.
ioSafe > FAIL