Last time ioSafe were taking 2.5-inch HDDs, wrapping them in armor, then stuffing them into 3.5-inch enclosures — adding fire and water protection in a standard form factor. Now they’ve given up on the internal route and have gone for something a little larger and more durable, fitting Western Digital disks into hardened external USB 2.0 cases capable of being submersed in ten feet of water for three days or surviving a raging inferno for 30 minutes. $199 gets you a 500GB model, but, since you’d probably have a hard time upgrading the drive in there without a jackhammer.
Via [Engadget]
