A-DATA SH93 Waterproof and Shock Resistant HDD Video Review

[techristian]

But if you jiggle the usb cable the wrong way , it breaks easily !

[cleaneraz09]

Why this HDD is so cheap? in my country it costs only around 63 dollars while the cheapest 2.5" sata hdd or other brand portable hdd costs from ~100dol.?

[fajar2801]

mantaappp loo mahh...

[AdjewareZ]

i always go swimming with my harddisks, so this would be very handy for me!

[ajubvj]

Looks nice but I always wonder, with drives that are this well insulated, how it handles the cooling problem. If I decide to dump 200 GB of movies onto it before a trip will it melt? I've seen little external drives like this get too hot to handle after something like that.

[00comm]

I took this backpacking with me for 4 months. From South Korean winter @ 10 below zero to Philippines spring 100+ degrees F. It survived salt water, getting dropped, rain, 100% humidity, sand, snow, getting frozen (literally ice frozen to it), and 7000+ft altitudes. Not to mention it was in a back pack getting shaken harder than a San Francisco martini the entire time.

Not to mention I plugged it into dozens of computers with more OS's than I can count and it worked on EVERY one of them.

[davyboy555]

@00comm

dude, you're so bogus. I read a review of your supposed journey man, and i would say that it is pretty unlikely that a casual user of the HHD would spam the net with it's virtues

[mentalporn]

What disk is inside? WD? Samsung? Hitachi?

[judgen]

@mentalporn My guess would be a two platter (160gb each) WD disk at 5.4k RPM.. In other words, the enclosure might be good but the disk itself is most likely not excessively good.

[96shox]

@judgen its a fujitsu MJA2500BH drive.  And it is durable as hell

[Costiputza]

The real speed is higher than in this test (formatting NTFS) and working with both XP and Windows 7. In a quad core configuration and with Western Digital (caviar green and black both with 1 TB capacity) transferring on them and from them the speed can vary from few MB to 70 MB/s. Sustained rate of transfer for let's say 56 Gb is arround 34,8 MB/s, so is not so lazy as presumed initially.

[arand4]

I have the 640 GB version and it only has 596 GB instead of 640 GB and my packaging was diferent

[wtchluring]

@arand4 derp? its advetised as 1gb = 1,000,000 kb...... so it only has 640,000,000 kbs which = 596 gb.

[arand4]

@wtchluring yeah because 1 GB is 1024 mbm 1 mb is 1024 kbs and so on

[wtchluring]

@arand4 yeh thats the one :o and 1024 bytes in a byte and 1024 nibbles in a byte, and sadly when u multiple them all together you loose about 15% of the advertised storage.

[arand4]

I have the 640 GB version and it only has 596 GB instead of 640 GB

[Yohko86]

I loved the review! 5/5! I think this is the portable HD I'm going to get (the speed doesn't bother me so much)! I think I'll probably get it in red, though.

[NunchakuFreak]

100/100 review rating. Thanks

[cjgan80]

@NeoNaziMexcanJew Portable HDD?

how to connect to the motherboard?

It only has like USB , and you'd have to connect to a USB..

[charly007]

I would love to know which Hard drive brand is inside! anyone has opened ?

[Sidew]

@charly007 2.5" Fujitsu MJA2500BH check techspot.com

[charly007]

I would love to know which Hard drive brand is inside! anyone has opened one?

[iCuddleMuffinz]

And um... what in the hell is the point in that?

[silenceyouidiot]

@iCuddleMuffinz If you have a pc on your boat and the boat sinks, you can restore the data after fishing for it under water?

[iCuddleMuffinz]

@silenceyouidiot Lol,, Why would you have a desktop pc on yur boat..? o.o laptop is understandable.. but nyuu not desktop pc

[zebi269]

@iCuddleMuffinz It's an external HDD you fucking retard. Get back the the kitchen where you belong.

[iCuddleMuffinz]

@zebi269 Wow, why would I be in the kitchen? Oh.. cause your gay and you like men making your dinner? or are you just a virgin and to handicap to make your own food?

[zebi269]

@iCuddleMuffinz YOUR NAME IS CUDDLE MUFFINS I ASSUMED YOU WERE A CHICK

[iCuddleMuffinz]

@zebi269 Rofl, Yes.. because all chicks talk like that.

[zebi269]

@iCuddleMuffinz all faggots and chicks.

[peterFans]

ermm.... try drop it when it's in use...

[undocumentedspot]

Finally I can take bath with my hdd.

[crack1110]

lol, diving and using a computer at the same time xD

[super6plx]

wow what the hell? that speed is incredibly slow.. my 320gb passport from WD gets 25-35mb/s on a usb port on the back of my computer

it MUST be faster than that...

[super6plx]

@NeoNaziMexcanJew but oil is non conductive, don't SSD's work under oil?

[cocoabernie]

@NeoNaziMexcanJew

well done Skitzo, you've not denied that your completely wrong and that oil would increase friction,

and get a fucking like your useless hypocritical balding shithead. why dont you go get another yodel!

noone is stupid enough to take demands from you, thats why your mother left you in the street orphan.

child of a rapist and all,

go to night school as none will let you in normal society you rickshaw homosexual retard.

learn some fucking English grammar.

[cocoabernie]

@NeoNaziMexcanJew

moron an oil cooled pc, doesnt affect the disk friction. no oil goes inside the harddrive. and any medium other than a vacuum causes friction, the gas within the harddrive likely is the least resistant for normal use.

[SuperShadow]

>usb

>speed

[Shackdaddy1337]

@NeoNaziMexcanJew actually it wouldnt matter for an oil cooled machine cus oil doesnt shortout electronics

[Kl4pp5tuhl]

If it would use an SSD too, it would also be resistant against magnetic fields.

[Kl4pp5tuhl]

Sorry, wrote the SSD comment half-way through.

But I have yet another idea to add to this product! By replacing the rubber outside as well as filling the remaining space with d3o could make it nearly indestructable.

Look it up on YouTube if you want, d3o is awesome stuff!

[blacknwhiteink13]

well done!

[jimmyjo88]

awesome~

[WackoX1337]

Are you sure that this is a HDD? looks more like a SSD to me :P

Anyways nice product :)

[Alice16k]

its hdd, running @ 5400 RPM dont think SSD do that ;)