Fireproof Protection

ioSafe Enterprise Class hardware can withstand a 1700° F fire for up to 1-hour and a flood disaster of up to 30 feet of saltwater for 30 days with complete data recovery. Watch the demonstration below as the ioSafe R4 is torched in front of industry analysts and journalists in the desert of Las Vegas, Nevada at the INTEROP 2007 Trade Show.

Video and Narration by Steven Hill of Network Computing Magazine

The photo slideshow below shows actual fire and water testing photos for the ioSafe hardware with 100% data recovery.

Transcript of YouTube Video from Stephen Hill at Network Computing Magazine

Review of ioSafe R4 NAS Appliance in a fire and water endurance test at the tradeshow INTEROP, Las Vegas.

Just Prior to Interop 2007, I get a call from a storage vendor by the name of ioSafe, who says they have a NAS Device that's fireproof, waterproof up to 30 foot of salt water, and shock proof up to a 30 foot drop or 3 story building, I said “fine, lets take a look at it”.

So to give us a good idea of what it could really do, they took us out to the middle of the desert, (a few journalists and I) and we wrote some data that couldn't be faked on to the device itself and lit that baby on fire. Here you can see it's burning at about 1700 degrees, and we let it cook for 10 minutes even though they've tested it in this same kind of condition for up to an hour. You can see that the person passing in front of there (fire testing chamber) couldn't get any closer than say 15 ft. without singeing their eyebrows.

Anyway as we turned on the heat you can see this is after ten minutes, the device's external paint and all of the outer electronics are pretty well cooked along with a fry pan on top that we put a regular old hard disk in just to see what happen. You can see it spouting flames, it melted into a little silver puddle of aluminum then we cooled the baby down, using a garden hose, pulled the disks out after they had cooled a little further and plugged it into a recovery storage array and read the disks as if nothing had happened. It was a pretty good demo; anything that combines fire and damage is cool by me. Steve Hill Network Computing Magazine, this one worked.

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