Indestructible Data: ioSafe at CES 2010

Dropping and Crushing the Solo SSD

We’ve seen plenty of examples of how rugged SSDs are, so we weren’t too surprised to se this reinforced example lifted to quite a height, ready to be dropped onto the asphalt car park surface. We didn’t even see a dent on the Solo’s casing, though with a digger due to drive over it, we admit to not walking up to take a close-up look.

We didn’t expect to see the rugged exterior casing completely collapse under the treads of the caterpillar track, but it turns out that the armour plated unit is actually a smaller unit embedded deep inside a thick layer of DataCast.

The Solo crunched at is was crushed, and it actually stuck to the track at the digger rolled on. What was left was a fairly small amount of crumpled metal, and lot of white powdery stuff and – buried inside the debris – the armour-plated storage unit.