ioSafe SSDs Get Shocked but Resist Data Loss

We were shocked and panicked when the demonstrator tripped over the jumper cables attached to the faraday cage holding our bags (which was suspiciously covered by a blanket), which then fell into the large tub of water. Of course, my first thought was “my backpack was at the very back of the cage, meaning it was not actually submerged”, but other members of the press simply stared in shock as Robb pretended to panic. He then ran to a table and pulled out the original faraday cage which actually had our bags in it from underneath. They had hidden the original cage with our bags and replaced it with an empty one while the press was facing the demo. He then explained that it was to demonstrate the value of backup, a service which ioSafe provides.
Robb then proceeded to plug the drive that had been zapped into the computer, but was having trouble reading the data. In a somewhat agitated state, he began attempting recovery by unplugging and re-plugging power to the device. He then removed the SSDs (which were in a RAID 1 mirrored array for data security) and connected them to a different interface. After a long while of attempting recovery, he was successful and we were able to see the original files and open the document that we had drafted, which was fully intact.





Here is the video we took of the demo:





More recently, ioSafe is giving away a 500 GB ioSafe Rugged Portable drive to a randomly selected person who can correctly guess the reason behind some strange noises mentioned in this post.