Who works in conditions where they are likely to do any of the things it can survive, okay granted that you may drop it and even stand on it but...I guess it's a good selling point. "Are you worried about dropping your SSD from a 20ft drop into rubble, a two-story building collapse, 5000lb crush force or up to 1,000g of shock. Maybe you work in temperatures of up to 1,550°F and want to have a look through your Pictures, well now you can!"
"I bought this SSD and all I can say is WOW, I was underwater for 30days 30ft down and it was really salty but my good old SSD allowed me to save my campaign on L4D2 :O Zomg."
Originally Posted by Mystiik Who works in conditions where they are likely to do any of the things it can survive, okay granted that you may drop it and even stand on it but...I guess it's a good selling point. "Are you worried about dropping your SSD from a 20ft drop into rubble, a two-story building collapse, 5000lb crush force or up to 1,000g of shock. Maybe you work in temperatures of up to 1,550°F and want to have a look through your Pictures, well now you can!"
"I bought this SSD and all I can say is WOW, I was underwater for 30days 30ft down and it was really salty but my good old SSD allowed me to save my campaign on L4D2 :O Zomg."
House fire, flood, earthquake and so on, no one is safe from them.
Its not an SSD, its a NAS box, did you even read the article?
This article is a complete waste of time and money. Any condition that would or could actually result in this item being crushed could never garuntee the position and rotation. If this had been crushed on its side, it would have been utterly destroyed. As for the cost of such a small amount of storage, I would rather keep a regular back up elsewhere, linked through the internet or even by hand.
no mirroring? no parity dis? kind of stupid, if the ssd fails you're back to zero.
and i'm not too sure that the armorplated thing would crush under sideway pressure, as it is a fairly thin box, so any force that is not absolutely 90° on the side will rotate the thing itself. and i was indeed a bit surprised about the price. not within reach for me, but not too expensive in the big picture.
Well, it seems that it comes with a 3 year Warranty as standard and can be upgraded to 5 years, though at the bottom they say:
"The Company's limited warranty does not cover Products which have been received improperly packaged, altered, or physically damaged."
So I guess if your device does happy to end up under a few tons of rubble, baked in a house fire or dropped in the ocean and gets damaged as a result, bang goes your warranty!
At those prices it'd be cheaper to keep backups using any or all of the existing methods.
So it's fine against flood, fire, earthquake, building demolition, and anything else you can think of.... except failure of the SSD itself. Brilliant. If you're gonna go to these lengths to protect a NAS box, why not make it at least RAID1?
However anything that resides on our planet is prone to disaster. Thats why if I had the money I would launch a stationary satellite into orbit and save my files on that - 200,000 terabytes anyone? :D
Originally Posted by SchizoFrog This article is a complete waste of time and money.
If I was you I'd cancel my bit-tech subscription right away! For the money we all have to pay we should never ever be forced to read articles we don't like or agree with.
I too hate the fact I have no choice in what I read any longer and pay such a high rate to be forced back to this site again and again.
I find that punching myself in the face is the only way to make myself feel better about this travesty. I strongly suggest you do the same.
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Reply"I bought this SSD and all I can say is WOW, I was underwater for 30days 30ft down and it was really salty but my good old SSD allowed me to save my campaign on L4D2 :O Zomg."
That's not really such a crazy prize to pay for safety.
House fire, flood, earthquake and so on, no one is safe from them.
Its not an SSD, its a NAS box, did you even read the article?
and i'm not too sure that the armorplated thing would crush under sideway pressure, as it is a fairly thin box, so any force that is not absolutely 90° on the side will rotate the thing itself. and i was indeed a bit surprised about the price. not within reach for me, but not too expensive in the big picture.
"The Company's limited warranty does not cover Products which have been received improperly packaged, altered, or physically damaged."
So I guess if your device does happy to end up under a few tons of rubble, baked in a house fire or dropped in the ocean and gets damaged as a result, bang goes your warranty!
At those prices it'd be cheaper to keep backups using any or all of the existing methods.
Just do offsite back ups IMO.
However anything that resides on our planet is prone to disaster. Thats why if I had the money I would launch a stationary satellite into orbit and save my files on that - 200,000 terabytes anyone? :D
"Just do offsite back ups IMO."
Definitely, anyhting else is just showing off.
If I was you I'd cancel my bit-tech subscription right away! For the money we all have to pay we should never ever be forced to read articles we don't like or agree with.
I too hate the fact I have no choice in what I read any longer and pay such a high rate to be forced back to this site again and again.
I find that punching myself in the face is the only way to make myself feel better about this travesty. I strongly suggest you do the same.
"Crush Proof : up to 5000lbs in any axis"
So there you go naysayers...
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