Every year
ioSafe has some absurd demo to show off just how tough its rugged hard drives are. They've already played with
fire and peppered a portable model with buckshot. This year the company turned to an eight-foot tall
Tesla coil and pointed its bolts of current at a prototype Thunderbolt model of its Rugged Portable -- which the company hopes to ship sometime in Q2. Unlike previous versions, this one packs dual SSDs in a RAID array for redundancy. After being blasted
repeatedly with a million volts of electricity the drive still worked. Things got a bit hairy when the drive wasn't recognized at first, but CEO Robb Moore broke out the screwdrivers, cracked open the case and connected the SSD directly through a separate adapter. Turns out just the mainboard was fried, but the storage was still safe. A second Rugged Portable, one of last-year's models brought in by a member of the press, was also put to the voltage test and came through unscathed. Check out the video after the break.
Edgar Alvarez contributed to this report.Continue reading ioSafe gives shocking demo of Thunderbolt Rugged Portable prototype (video)
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