A-DATA SH93 Rugged Portable Hard Drive Review

This is definitely something I wont be needing anytime soon, cool though that it can withstand water. Id still rather use a high capacity USB thumb drive if I need portability. less chance of dropping it in a pool of water as well.

I have recently begun doing freelance work and don't have a vehicle so I travel to customers. For 20 dollars extra, the casing on this drive is an invaluable tool for travelling technicians.

1 real piece of HARDware huh? will be hunting for this when it becomes available in Singapore. haha... look nice too!

I'm somewhat surprised that a drive like this hasn't been made available sooner. I know a few people who probably *should* use something like this.

This is some serious protection for critical and mobile data.

Oh my! This is quite an intriguing piece of hardware- and its fairly cheap too. Great review I enjoyed reading it.

If you drop this on water, that is not very clear and the disk is colored black, good luck fishing for it. If it sudenly drops and you are working in the field, in the mud, snow, a forest or whatever case (I mean common, this is not something to buy for taking it around a library unless it's a pool library ), would you see a 2,5" black square?

Yes, that's why they come in bright yellow or bright red.

If only something like this came out sooner, I've dropped my external enough times to need something like this. I'm just surprised I've only killed two hard drives in the process both of which I was able to exchange for new ones, gotta love Best Buy and their knowledge less staff. Also the data that was on them at the time wasn't important.

Now if they just used a WD Black edition HD instead of Fujitsu... Oh well, you can't have everything. On second thought, at least they didn't use a Seagate...

That's a fantastic price. I'm going to pick one up for sure. Great for a tech to carry around on the job for backups/etc.

Well, I found it in a few stores in my country with a price tag of 130$ for the 500GB and the 250GB it says End Of Life!?. The 640GB is priced even higher - 170$. Anyway it's a "must have", not necessarily the A-Data brand, for the features it offers. Guess the 500GB version from A-Data will be my next acquisition and also my next gift. Thank you for a very well tested - reviewed product!

That is inexpensive solution glad I do not work where I need one.

i have an external HDD that i took on a plane with me and the guys who loaded mt luggage broke the case and it was almost completely destroyed but with my good luck the drive still worked i put it back together and found none of the data missing. I just wish it would have been this drive because i had a lot of pictures and the like that i could not replace on that drive i was so worried i had lost them. this is a great product and i for one am thinking i will pick one up

Looks very neat and from the description and price is a pretty good deal.

Since this is plastic, I assume it is not fireproof like some other protected external hard drives, but other than that, it looks like a very solid product (no pun intended). This reminds me of that Toughbook review where they gave it to a tiger, used it as a dart board, and shot it with various firearms.

Probably I will not buy this for the years coming but I just wanted to say that I really like the picture and the colors of the hard drive. My first impression when I saw the picture was: what is that tank?)

Finally I can go jogging with my hard drive! lol jk Sounds neat, next they should make it fire proof so if any accidents happen at home your information could be recovered.

OMG!!! I must and will get one of does. Their great! can't wait for some other better looking types to come out.

Who really need this? this is like water protection for the battery but not the laptop.

I don't understand it is in no way like that?!?!

- You do understand that a portable drive is something you carry right?
- Something you carry is also something you have the potential to drop.
- When dropping something you could do it on a hard surface or in water.
- If you do so with the ADATA SH93 the biggest problem you will face is bending over to pick it up.
- If you do so with a typical portable hard drive chances are you have at the very least damaged the case or worst the hard drive, meaning not only do you now have to bend over to pick it up but you will also face the inconvenience of loosing all your data.
- So to answer your question if you have the foresight to know that you are never ever going to drop, bump or knock your portable hard drive then NO you don't need the ADATA SH93, but for everyone else who is not clairvoyant the ADATA SH93 is a pretty cool idea.