ioSafe put its new Rugged Portable Thunderbolt hard drive to a lightning test. (Photo: CNET)
ioSafe, a company that makes “disaster-proof” hardware and touts its technology as like a “little black box” for hard drives, has conducted some pretty extreme demonstrations to showcase the beating its products can withstand. CNET reports that for the last three years at the Consumer Electronics Show, ioSafe has put its Rugged Portable devices to the test , but this year was, shall we say, shockingly unlike the others. To unveil its Rugged Portable Thunderbolt hard drive, ioSafe felt it had to stay true to the product’s namesake and test it with a 1 million volt Tesla coil. Watch the raw footage of the test from CNET here: Here’s a cleaner cut demo provided by ioSafe to MSNBC:
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