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From: Dave U. Random on 8 Jan 2010 19:23 End User Blog For the uninitiated, the ioSafe Solo is really the Helm's Deep (Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helm's_Deep ) of external hard drives. For those among us with the desire to preserve data in the face of total meltdown, ioSafe does just that: according to the company the ioSafe Solo can withstand temperatures of 1550F for a half an hour and can be fully immersed in 10 ft. of water for three days (with their DataCast and HydroSafe Technologies respectively). Coming anywhere from 500GB ($149) to 2TB capacity (around $280), the ioSafe Solo isn't too shabby with storage space, either. Other features include USB 2.0 data transfer, up to 480Mb/s, and total compatibility with Windows, Mac, and Linux alike. It also utilizes what they call "physical theft protection", i.e. the ability to physically bolt and/or lock the unit to a table or wall.That, and it's really, really heavy, which I'm sure is a decent deterrent for theft... Continued: http://u.nu/4hzg4
From: Arno on 9 Jan 2010 06:43
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Dave U. Random <anonymous(a)anonymitaet-im-inter.net> wrote: > End User Blog > For the uninitiated, the ioSafe Solo is really the Helm's > Deep (Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helm's_Deep ) > of external hard drives. For those among us with the desire > to preserve data in the face of total meltdown, ioSafe does > just that: according to the company the ioSafe Solo can > withstand temperatures of 1550F for a half an hour and can > be fully immersed in 10 ft. of water for three days (with > their DataCast and HydroSafe Technologies respectively). > Coming anywhere from 500GB ($149) to 2TB capacity (around > $280), the ioSafe Solo isn't too shabby with storage space, > either. > Other features include USB 2.0 data transfer, up to > 480Mb/s, and total compatibility with Windows, Mac, and > Linux alike. It also utilizes what they call "physical > theft protection", i.e. the ability to physically bolt > and/or lock the unit to a table or wall.That, and it's > really, really heavy, which I'm sure is a decent deterrent > for theft... > Continued: http://u.nu/4hzg4 I would like to see someone open one of these and make photographs. Might actually be an useful product. Basically a ultra-ruggedized external USB drive at a bout twice the price of an ordinary one. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno(a)wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans |