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Not even a 10-ton truck is a match for LaCie newest flash drive (and yes, LaCie tested that claim).Come hell or high water, or even a 10-ton truck, LaCie's new XtremKey USB 3.0 flash drive has little to worry about. As the name implies, LaCie's latest flash drive is extremely tolerant to harsh conditions, such as being submerged in water down to 200 meters (over 656 feet). It has a protective cap made of thick ZAMAC metal alloy and wear-resistant screw threads with a rubber O-ring.
"It's strength can withstand severe shock, dizzying drops, and the relentless pressure of a 10-ton vehicle," LaCie claims. "It also survives bone chilling temperatures down to -30C and scorching heat up to 200C."
If you wanted to (and we don't why you would), you could even drop the drive in a deep fryer with a basket of fries, as LaCie demonstrates in a YouTube video (see below):
When you're not abusing LaCie's XtremKey, it will read data at up to 230MB/s via USB 3.0 and keep your documents secure with AES 256-bit encryption.
The XtremKey is available now in 32GB capacity for $85 and backed by a 3-year warranty. A 64GB model will be made available soon, though no word on how much it will cost.
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vrmlbasic
December 13, 2012 at 1:03am
This makes my Corsair Survivor 3.0 seem wimpy :(
Are there benchmarks on the read speed? My Corsair survivor, for example, pegs at 80 MB/sec read (which it was marketed at), and I'm having difficulty believing that this drive could approach a speed almost 4x that.
If it did, I'd be impressed.
srmak
December 12, 2012 at 10:13pm
I think what you meant to say was...
"For a second, I thought it was a bullet."
Otherwise, your comment indicates that you thought the object was a bullet for a time period of just one second, and then after that one second, the object turned into something other than a bullet.
srmak
December 12, 2012 at 8:40pm
Sure, you can deep-fry it - so what? But the REAL question is...
Will it blend?
http://www.willitblend.com/
Andrew.Hodge
December 12, 2012 at 1:31pm
I've got to wonder who really needs things like this. I may be hard on the stuff I own, but I've still got my old jump drive from four years ago that has been stomped, dissected, burned, submerged, and bitten. It still works like the day I got it. The level that this thing is protected is absurd. Who knows, though. I may just get it for the cool factor.
