Now Thats a Hard Drive!

Steel, padlocks and deadbolts are not something you'd normally  find on the computer isle.  At least not until now.  The ioSafe N2 has changed all of that. The hard drive is "built to with stand anything" says, Safford, who recently wrote an article on it featured in POPSCI. By anything we do mean fire, water, theft and the occasional fall. This sounds like the soldier of hard drives. It literally sounds like it's ready for combat. take a look at some of the specs:

• 4 terabyte dual mirrored hard drive
• 0.05 in steel shell protects against fall
• Padlock accessory
• 1 in. heat resistant insulation that protects hard drive up to 1,550°F
• Customized circulation vents help keep flames at bay
•  0.07 in waterproof aluminum barrier with removable gasket cap
• Water barrier protects up to 3 days in 10ft. of saltwater

Talk about protection the ioSafe N2 is also capable of being bolted down to either a floor or a table.  The company is even willing to pay for forensic recovery cost in the event that the hard drive fails. The cost will run you close to $600 but IoSafe likes to compare that $600 to the $8000 that you would spend over the course of three years using Amazon's S3 Storage.

ioSafe. (2012). N2 NAS RAID. Retrieved March 10, 2013, from ioSafe: http://iosafe.com/products-n2-overview

Safford, M. (2012, December 06). http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2012-12/indestructible-hard-drive-can-survive-fire-stop-theft-and-more. Retrieved March 2011, 2013, from POPSCI: http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2012-12/indestructible-hard-drive-can-survive-fire-stop-theft-and-more