IoSafe describes the Rugged Portable hard drive as "an aircraft blackbox for mobile data"
The hard drive boasts tank like features like it's titanium alloy enclosure is crush-resistant up to 5,000 lbs, allows usage of the drive in extreme conditions, for example at an altitude of 30,000 feet, can withstand moisture rather can stay immersed in water for up to 3 days without watering your data and shields your data from continuous exposure to UV, blowing sand, blowing dust, rain, salt fog, icing or freezing rain for up 24 hours.
It can't beat gravity but can sure protect data from 20 feet (SSD) and 10 feet (HDD) falls onto concrete. The other element it can withstand is fuels and can stay immersed in diesel fuel, oils, hydraulic fluids and aircraft fuels to a 12-inch depth for one hour per without changing the composition of data.
IoSafe unveils bulletproof, waterproof, fallproof and chemicalproof hard drive : showcased at CES 2011
The mini-bunker of storage device weighs a mere one pound for aluminum and 1.5 pounds for titanium version. It offers up to 250 GB to 1TB of data storage for HDD and 256 GB -512 GB for SSD.
IsoSafe showcased its billet-machined aluminum and titanium cased hard drives at the CES by allowing journalists to fire multiple rounds of shotgun at the impregnable device. The demo was arranged at the American Shooting firing range in Las Vegas. CNET reported that the device survived about 10 rounds of Winchester Expert Game Load Steel ammo from a Remington 12-guage shotgun.
