In the second Digital Demolition show, Macworld Editor Chris Holt gets hold of an external hard drive, the ioSafe, that's designed to withstand home catastrophes such as floods and fires. After a dunking in a public fountain and a run-in with a 3000-degree fire cannon, will the ioSafe still deliver us our data?
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