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January 10th, 2010, 20:20
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It's an inevitability, when a product claims to withstand Kryptonian strength, someone out there's gonna phone up the son of Jor-El himself for a trial run. Today's entrant is ioSafe's Solo SSD (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/iosafes-solo-ssd-ditches-platters-isnt-worried-about-building/), which Extreme Tech took for a few rounds to determine its actual survivability. Spoiler alert: the SSD drive is still functional in the end, and it's really none too surprising when you realize the test site is run by ioSafe itself -- who else would have such an appropriate location handy? Still, the journey is what's interesting here, and there's plenty of pictures of incineration, falling, and drowning here -- and even a video of an intimate encounter with a tractor tread. Jigsaw would be proud. Video after the break.
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It's an inevitability, when a product claims to withstand Kryptonian strength, someone out there's gonna phone up the son of Jor-El himself for a trial run. Today's entrant is ioSafe's Solo SSD (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/iosafes-solo-ssd-ditches-platters-isnt-worried-about-building/), which Extreme Tech took for a few rounds to determine its actual survivability. Spoiler alert: the SSD drive is still functional in the end, and it's really none too surprising when you realize the test site is run by ioSafe itself -- who else would have such an appropriate location handy? Still, the journey is what's interesting here, and there's plenty of pictures of incineration, falling, and drowning here -- and even a video of an intimate encounter with a tractor tread. Jigsaw would be proud. Video after the break.
Continue reading ioSafe Solo SSD plays with fire, gravity, and the pathway of a tractor (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/iosafe-solo-ssd-plays-with-fire-gravity-and-the-pathway-of-a-t/)
ioSafe Solo SSD plays with fire, gravity, and the pathway of a tractor (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/10/iosafe-solo-ssd-plays-with-fire-gravity-and-the-pathway-of-a-t/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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