ioSafe Electrocutes Its Latest Rugged Portable Thunderbolt Drive - jakubowskisuremposelve

At long last year's CES, ioSafe jibe up its Rugged Portable hard drive with a 12-gauge, and the year before that information technology ran over its Solo SSD with a juggernaut. Not to be outdone (past itself), this year ioSafe put on a truly electrifying performance.

ioSafe's demonstration of its newest Hardy Portable Thunderbolt (which is its Rugged Portable push on, but with a Thunderbolt port) was held few minutes away from the CES show floor, at the Las Vegas Country Club Tennis Pavilion. ioSafe's demonstration this year embroiled an eighter-foot-gangling million-volt Tesla loop. Atomic number 68…yea.

One million volts of electrical energy. Zap!

At the beginning of the demo, we (the press) stepped into a grounded Faraday cage (to protect our damask electronic gadgets from being zapped), and ioSafe started up the Tesla coil. ioSafe brought in the maker of this particular Tesla coil, performing artist Austin "Dr. Megavolt" Richards, who walked or so the coil in a special suit and to demonstrate the power of unprocessed lightning.

Dr. Megavolt held sprouted the ioSafe Rugged Portable Bombshell, which had been fitted with a special earthing cap (ioSafe CEO Robb Moore says that if you plan to use your drive near a Tesla coil, he'll fit your drive with a specialised earthing pileus as well). The Tesla coil zapped the drive, repeatedly, while we clicked and tapped our cameras outside.

IoSafe CEO Robb Moore works to recover data off of the electrocuted drive.

Moore then brought the drive dead; we all stepped out of the John Cage, and he attempted to recover the data. The external casing had been fried, then Moore concluded improving taking the case aside to obtain the drive at heart (it's always nice to see a CEO who knows their product). The process took a few minutes, but in the end the data was fail-safe and sound.

IoSafe has yet to declare eyeglasses for the RP Thunderbolt, as the drive doesn't come KO'd until Q2 2012. IoSafe also introduced the IoSafe Solo G3, which is fireproof (equal to 1550 degrees Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit for adequate to half an time of day), waterproof (it rump tolerate beingness submerged under 10 feet of water for up to 72 hours), and compatible with USB 3.0. The ioSafe Solo G3 also features fanless cooling.

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