ioSafe Reviews and Awards
Popular Photography: ioSafe Solo G3 Rugged External Hard Drive
May 2013
It's not often I find myself holding a high-capacity hard drive above a bathtub full of warm water. So, when I tested the ioSafe Solo G3 External Hard Drive, it made me a little nervous. But, as far as backup solutions go, it promises to be one of the toughest, so I gave it a dip. Later, I lit it on fire. It kept on working.
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SmallNetBuilder: ioSafe N2 NAS Reviewed
April 2013
We have a good backup strategy in our home and it has saved pictures, music and documents many times when drives have crashed without warning. One scenario that I often worry about, however, is fire. The discussion with my wife usually goes along the lines of "make sure the kids and pets are safely out of the house and if it's still safe to return, grab the white Synology box that sits in our network closet".
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Computer Shopper: ioSafe N2 Review and Ratings
March 2013
The N2 scores 4/5 in Computer Shopper's review.
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ChannelPro: ioSafe N2 Review - Flexible Data Storage Meets Indestructible Design
March 2013
Off-site and cloud storage can be riddled with inconveniences, complexities, and costs. There is something to be said about adding durable, local storage to a backup strategy. That is what the N2 offers.
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PC Perspective: ioSafe N2 - The Performance NAS is now Disaster-proof
March 2013
Last year we did a combined review of the ioSafe SoloPRO and the Synology Diskstation 212+ NAS solution. The ioSafe handled the function of disaster-hardened storage, capable of withstanding a typical building fire along with the resulting drenching from your friendly neighborhood fire department, while the DiskStation made the USB-connected ioSafe available to the network and added numerous additional features as part of its excellent DSM software suite, offering many features to both both home and business users.
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AnandTech: ioSafe N2: A Disaster-Resistant Synology DS213
March 2013
The emergence of the digital economy has brought to fore the importance of safeguarding electronic data.
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Lifehacker: The ioSafe N2 Is a Near Disaster-Proof NAS that's Packed with Features
February 2013
A good NAS-whether you build it or buy it-gives you a low-power, flexible, always-accessible appliance to store your documents, movies, photos, music, and more on your home network. A great NAS can give you remote access to your files and keep them backed up. The ioSafe N2 NAS does all of those things, but also comes in a case that's all but fireproof, waterproof, and virtually indestructible.
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PC Magazine: ioSafe N2 review
January 2013
The N2 scores 4.5/5 and collects an Editor's Choice award from PC Mag.
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CNET: Real disaster-proof, robust NAS
January 2013
Unveiled at CES 2013, the N2 NAS server from IoSafe is the first network-attached storage device that offers data protection against both hard-drive failure and disasters.
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Macworld Australia: ioSafe Solo G3 1TB
December 2012
ioSafe is a US company that makes disaster-proof hard drives - meaning they're fireproof (think house fires), waterproof (think firefighters trying to put out the blaze, or floods) and shock-proof (think collapsing buildings). They can also be bolted down or locked against theft using a cable lock or a Kensington security cable.
That means you can rest easy, knowing that your data's in safe hands - especially if you're in a bushfire- or earthquake-prone area.
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TweakTown: ioSafe Solo G3 Fireproof and Waterproof External Hard Drive Review
December 2012
Last month Hurricane Sandy struck a large section of the US East Coast, affecting one of the highest population cities in the world. A high number of homes flooded, some ripped from foundations and carried for long distances. As the storage product editor here at TweakTown, I have to wonder how much data was lost in this tragedy.
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Tnooz: Shaken, never stirred: ioSafe (REALLY) Rugged Portable hard drive
October 2012
Let's be real: Regular travelers need rugged devices. We slam, drop, cram, splash, bang, knock, and generally abuse our possessions when we travel. Whether intentionally neglectful or unintentionally forgetful, hardware for travelers needs to be robust, resilient and reliable. Our stuff has to be able to take a beating and keep going.
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Dare Dreamer Magazine: ioSafe is Fireproof and Waterproof Data Storage
October 2012
A necessary component of any backup strategy is having some sort of off-site drive to store duplicate copies of your crucial data. The logistical problem for many of you small, particularly home-based businesses is this: where the heckfire will you store it offsite. At your neighbor's house? A safe deposit box? U-haul Storage? Those are all workable solutions, but can be extremely inconvenient.
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Edmund Terakopian: ioSafe Rugged Portable
October 2012
ioSafe describe their Rugged Portable drive as an aircraft black box for mobile date; I must say that I agree.
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MSN Canada: ioSafe Solo G3 is a data tank
August 2012
Most people don't back up their files, and if they do, it's to a dinky USB stick that could, at most, survive cycle through the wash.
Or perhaps your priceless pictures and meticulously curated music collection is at the whim of an external hard drive, which would be toast in the event of a flood or fire.
Worried? If your stuff is that important to you, that you would freak out if a spring melt or forest fire wiped out your home, than a disaster-proof hard drive is the solution.
Meet the Solo G3 from ioSafe, a shelter for your stuff.
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Photography Bay: ioSafe Extreme Rugged Hard Drive Review
August 2012
The ioSafe Extreme is a portable, bus-powered hard drive that is built like a tank. It is available in 500GB or 1TB capacities with a 5400RPM spinning drive, or with a SSD drive from 120GB-600GB capacities. The latest models are USB 3.0 only; however, the model that I reviewed was a FW800 with a 5400RPM 1TB drive inside.
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Wired: ioSafe, For When You Need Fireproof and Waterproof Data Storage
August 2012
What do you do when you want to back up your information on an external hard drive, but worry about corruption, house fires, and floods?
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Photo District News: ioSafe Rugged Portable
July 2012
This portable hard drive can take a serious beating.
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About.com: ioSafe Solo G3 Review
July 2012
The people at ioSafe don't mess around. Its hard drives, which have been reviewed on this site before, are the hardiest of the hardy external and portable drives. The Solo G3 is designed to be fireproof and waterproof, so you can confidently store your most crucial backups and rest a bit easier knowing even a house fire (or office fire) and the ensuing water will not destroy your files.
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Tape Op: SoloPRO Disaster-Proof Hard Drive
July 2012
Past reviews in Tape Op have covered external hard drive storage systems with RAID capability for redundancy in case of drive failure. Even if you're doing daily backups, the loss of one day's worth of audio recordings could be disastrous, and a RAID can reduce the possibility of such a disaster occurring. The SoloPRO, on the other hand, protects against a different kind of disaster - loss of the enclosing room or building due to fire, water damage, or collapse (all three of which will likely happen if a building fire is big enough).
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TechRadar: ioSafe Rugged Portable Hard Drive review
July 2012
There are plenty of portable external hard drives out there that claim to be rugged. We've tested a lot of them, and they mostly do a good job of protecting your hard drive from knocks and drops, but we wouldn't trust them to protect the hard drive from large drops or being run over by cars. The ioSafe Rugged Portable Hard Drive is another case entirely.
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