The Solo from ioSafe is an external hard drive that is designed to keep your data safe in case of a disaster – especially fire and flood. This product comes in four capacities: 500 GB, 1 TB, 1.5 TB, and 2 TB. We set the 500 GB on fire for 30 minutes and then dropped gallons of water on it. Let’s see if it survived!
When purchased this product includes a three-year warranty and a one-year data recovery service. For USD 100 you can upgrade this to a five-year warranty and a five-year data recovery service.
By the way, ioSafe also has an SSD product line, which is also shock resistant – according to the manufacturer it can be dropped from the top of an eight-story building.
In Figures 1 and 2 you can see the overall look of the Solo, which comes in one color, a dull silver. The general look is a smoothly curved cinder block with the ioSafe logo on the front. The holes on the front above and below the ioSafe logo glow blue when the drive is in use.
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Figure 1: ioSafe Solo.
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Figure 2: ioSafe Solo.
As you can see in Figure 2 there is only a connection for a USB 2.0 cable – though the SSD models are eSATA-capable. For increased security this model comes with a floor bolt mount on the back of the case.
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Figure 3: Cables.
Now let’s see now let’s take a closer look at the inner workings of the Solo.
