ioSafe's Rugged Drive Meets a Shotgun and an M6

[extremepcs]

Try a deer slug in the shotgun

 

[cmmcnamara]

Damn is that what Jane look like? Want want want want

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]JMcEntegart[/nom]I don't have enough fans for a Facebook fan page![/citation]

Go buy some selfesteem!
You've got plenty fans - unlike kevin or crashie

 

[waikano]

[citation][nom]JMcEntegart[/nom][citation][nom]JMcEntegart[/nom]I'm not sure which picture you're comparing me to but yes.[/citation]

It would have been the first one I saw of you way back when you were at a pub maybe sitting with a bunch of the other Tom's employees it's been a while a year or two. Anyway looking good, keep it up!!

 

[AGPC]

i Agree when i saw: ioSafe's rugged drive meets shotgun
i was thinking a normal one birdshot: So what?
but not like my hard drive will be shot anyways.

 

[scatrdfew]

Guns don't kill hard drives, people kill hard drives.

 

[Parrdacc]

Seems like a waste of a drive and ammo. I mean bird shot? Really. Not much of test there. How about buck shot or slugs and did anyone really believe the drive would survive a round from an assault rifle? I'm willing to bet a typical .22 could put a hole in it.

 

[psg1john]

The drive with the bird shot, is made of aluminum armor, and with the .223 round that shot though it, that why the bird shot potholed it and the rifle round killed it.

Wonder why they didn't try testing it on the titanium, if they did titanium harden armor it would for sure stop the handgun rounds, same if it was harden steel.

you need 9.5mm of armor to stop 5.56/45 [M193]

 

[psg1john]

commercial armor plate I was talking about not Military grade, don't know if there a differences

 

[hythos]

"The Intel SSD had to be removed from its aluminum enclosure before we could see any data." --- I don't think it's legal to call anything made purely of any grade of aluminum "armor", unless it's for decorative purposes... lol

Also - someone asked if it was steel shot vs lead shot...
Answer: Steel shot - Vegas in-door ranges do not allow the use of lead (may be with other States' in-door ranges too); A volume of lead if used in-door would build up in the air - and no one wants to be breathing that stuff.

[citation][nom]PSG1JOHN[/nom]The drive with the bird shot, is made of aluminum armor, and with the .223 round that shot though it, that why the bird shot potholed it and the rifle round killed it.Wonder why they didn't try testing it on the titanium, if they did titanium harden armor it would for sure stop the handgun rounds, same if it was harden steel.you need 9.5mm of armor to stop 5.56/45 [M193][/citation]

Exactly - any armoring would have to be a 300-series, or 15-5/17-4 grade (ect) of stainless steel or a high-Nickel MP35N Alloy; and even then, most non-AP (lead or non-jacketted) munition will carry enough inertia to penetrate plating the thickness of the amount of displacement (width of the projectile).
Unfortunately, Titanium falls very close behind Aluminum in toughness - it's structurally strong, but too soft to be (safely!) effective.

What *would* be resistant though, is Spectry - 1/2" Ceramic plating, saturated with 7000-series aluminum. 70% weight of steel, 150%+ greater toughness... Speaking of which, consider this my patent-pending declaration for new hard-drive enclosures 😉 LOL

 

[Guest]

Does it really matter what gun or type of shot was used? Hard drives are not supposed to be in that situation, what would be a more suitable test for a hard drive is to show the durability of the drive and the errors during read and write cycles. Ericvr [Victoria, Australia]

 

[shannon78]

can we use a mini-gun next time?

 

[LetsGoOutside]

Yeah, that's totes an AR-15.

 

[Guest]

I find it cute that they used the aluminum rather than titanium casing..