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ioSafe SoloPro Disaster-Proof External Hard Drive USB3

Based on 10 reviews

Excellent:

5
Good:

4
Average:

1
Bad:

0

Pros

Rugged to excess. Includes forensic data recovery service. USB 3.0. 3-year warranty. Fast performance.
Fast USB 3.0 interface; fireproof and waterproof; includes oneyear data recovery service.
Fireproofing and waterproofing, Extended warranty and data recovery, eSATA and USB 3.0, Smooth performance on USB 2.0, Linux and Mac support.
Really fast file transfer speeds.
Fireproof, Waterproof, Fast
Fire-resistant, waterproof design; very fast over USB 3.0; comprehensive data-recovery plan in event of disaster
Pretty Good Performance, Darn near indestructible, USB 3.0 interface, Actively cooled, Attractive in a tank kind of way, Comes with 1 year Data Recovery Service, Reasonable price for 3 & 5 year DRS extensions, DRS 5 year extension also extends warranty to
The ioSafe SoloPro is designed to safeguard your data against fire and water damage and includes a year of data recovery service. The drive supports USB 3.0 and offers decent performance.
Indestructible. Comes with disaster recovery service.
Avaliable in 3 large storage capacities, Water proof at 10 feet for three days, Fire proof at 1500f for 15 minutes.

Cons

Big. Expensive on a dollar per GB basis. 3-year recovery service is an upgrade.
Data recovery after one year is extra; heavy.
Very heavy, Expensive versus unprotected drives.
USB 3.0 adapter port necessary.
Very heavy, bulky; no redundancy against drive failure; no backup software
MASSIVE footprint, Heavy, Sealed unit so hard drive replacement will be difficult...
The ioSafe SoloPro is heavy and bulky for an external hard drive. It doesn't have any protection against hard-drive failure, and its internal hard drive is not user-replaceable. The device is also relatively noisy.
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A little on the heavy side but that is ok since it just sits in one place all the time.

By AnandTech on April 09, 2012

Consumers understand the importance of keeping their documents and other material possessions safe from unexpected disasters. Towards this, many invest in fireproof and waterproof safes. However, as the digital economy grows, many of the possessions...

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By CRN on May 16, 2011

Neither rain, nor fire, nor drop from height, nor deep immersion in noxious fluids, shall keep ioSafe from spinning 'round, and retrieving your customer's data. While that's not the official slogan of ioSafe, maker of disaster proof storage...

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By Macworld on April 06, 2011

Complete Coverage SoloPRO 1TB with 1-year DRS-Data Recovery Service (eSATA/USB 2.0) » SoloPRO 1TB with 3-year DRS-Data Recovery Service (eSATA/USB 2.0) » SoloPRO 1TB with 5-year DRS-Data Recovery Service (eSATA/USB 2.0) » SoloPRO 2TB with...

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By PC Mag on April 01, 2011

The poster child for extreme data protection in computing (it can apparently survive gasoline fires and sledgehammers), the ioSafe SoloPRO is great hard drive with exemplary service and data loss protection. Buy it...

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By Maximum PC on March 09, 2011

We’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. We’ve watched “rugged” hard drive enclosures shatter on the carpet after a 2-foot drop. All our documents lost in time, like… well, like something. What we’re...

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By FutureLooks on January 27, 2011

One of the biggest reasons why you may choose to have an external hard drive is so that you can make backup copies of all your critical data. This gives you peace of mind in case the hard drive in your primary computer happens to crash. How, then, can...

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By Chip Chick on January 19, 2011

All-in-all the ioSafe SoloPRO is an awesome external hard drive. However, we do have a few issues with it. For starters, the footprint of this hard drive is HUGE. Also the drive is quite noisy. The internal hard drive is also not user-replaceable....

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By OverClock Intelligence Agency on December 13, 2010

It's not very often that we have opportunity or reason to put a review item through extreme testing measures such as setting it on fire or submersing it in water, but the IoSafe SoloPRO 1TB external drive enclosure was specifically designed to...

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By Macworld Australia on December 11, 2010

The ioSafe SoloPRO is one of the toughest and rugged hard drives on the market. However, behind its physical toughness lies a single vulnerable hard drive. For those worried more about data security ioSafe should offer a RAID option as well, but if...

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By StorageReview on December 10, 2010

For small businesses or even home users who need sensitive files kept out of harm’s way, the ioSafe SoloPro offers a few things most external drives don’t. The SoloPro is fire, water, and theft proof, not to mention crush-proof from its...

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