The Armor A60 portable drive can take quite a beating

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CNET editor Dong Ngo did some blah blah talking and then a real-world drop test on the Silicon Power Armor A60 portable drive. You can't miss this if you want to find out how you can find out about the test result.

[@oh_thats_hot_btw4310]

I ordered one that's 2tb for 75 on Amazon

[@zokhaino]

Awesome Dongo, for throwing that thing a way.

[@techfreak243]

only Dong Ngo would take a rugged hard drive and take it to that kind of drop test

[@neorebu]

So didn't expect that ending, only people as cool as Dong Ngo can do that and get away with it. Boss move 😎

[@tomcrew10]

Who goes swimming with their hard drives ??

[@Spaethon]

Thomas Crew Michael Phelps

[@DavidDegnan]

I had the old Armor A80 which was pretty rugged externally, but something fried internally and failed. Lost near 500GB and I stupidly didn't back it up. I've since switched to Western Digital, but I'd probably give these guys another go.

[@hananiasq]

"Did I break anything???" (only concerned about the Table or the plant, not the Drive) LOL!

[@grahamrothphotography]

best ending ever!

[@User.Joshua]

This guy is awesome. Love the fun reviews.

[@andrewjackson7476]

What's the difference between A30 and A80 aside from looks? About the look though, I've not seen a cooler looking drive than A80. I *LOVE* that it has STANDARD usb 3.0 plug at both ends and they TUCK in to the body of the drive, instead of hanging out. The drive includes a short cable, that tucks in to the drive and a generously long one, which does not tuck in anywhere, but still a very good config.

[@haroldinihobombinio8709]

I use it to store games for my Xbox One, i love it and I can chuck it in my pocket god round to my friends house and play my games on his Xbox!

[@MrOnlyforcommenting]

apparently people take hard drives for swimming...lol

[@thecarboy95]

Go for a swim with your portable disc drive LOL what.

[@superfatchao14]

Lol, "blah blah talking"

[@lilman551000]

dong ngo what is the best and cheapest WiFi router for Comcast

[@AlexeyDnepr]

Better to take A60 (green) or A80 (Blue)?

[@LindicChannel5]

Hello, can you please tell me what is the batery charging time? Thank you.

[@Spaethon]

I have this HD and although I never put it through any durability tests, I'm glad I bought it. KZbin has nothing but this for stress tests on this thing. I was disappointed at that because I wanted to see what kind of hard drive this really is. But it obviously handles drops well and that's exactly why I got it. My last 2TB hard drive (Western Digital portable) busted with a 2ft. drop on tile. Lost everything. Ruined my day to say the least. Actually it ruined my month. After the incident I bought a bulky 4TB drive to back up all my stuff and I bought a Silicon Power A60. That drop ain't happening again, for f%k sakes!

[@illya1178]

is it still working? im getting one this week. cause I also broke my 2tb WD passport ultra 1 drop on wooden tiles roughly 2 ft also

[@Gilliatt83]

1:40 they replaced the sound track for the price in GBP. it was a bad job..

[@mmoby1]

can you suggest me which External Hard drive is better and low failure rate, looking for 1TB under 60$, WD, SP, Seagate?

[@andrewjackson7476]

I've been very happy with A80 1TB. I bought it at walmart for $62, but the price has gone up. I want to buy another A80 but 2TB. Newegg has 2TB for $98. I like that they also offer data recovery plan and replacement warranty. If you bought 1TB already, I strongly suggest getting another A80, but a 2TB. BEST PROTECTION against drive failure is to have multiple backup drives. The best way to keep your data "fresh" is to copy your working backup drive to a freshly formatted (Deep format, not Quick format) or Brand -new drive. This way your files will be freshly magnetized to a brand new drive and they will be UN-FRAGMENTED !!! This will dramatically increase the speed, but more importantly cause much much much wear and tear on your drive's moving parts. That's why I will need minimum of three external drives; one working one, one backup and one copy of backup... which I should rotate as often as I can, to refresh the magenitazation and keep the files un fragmented. Rotate rotate rotate; then you will NEVER need to worry about one out of the three suddenly crashing.. no big deal.

[@andrewjackson7476]

What's the difference between A30 and A80 aside from looks? About the look though, I've not seen a cooler looking drive than A80. I *LOVE* that it has STANDARD usb 3.0 plug at both ends and they TUCK in to the body of the drive, instead of hanging out. The drive includes a short cable, that tucks in to the drive and a generously long one, which does not tuck in anywhere, but still a very good config.

[@pjr2730]

Tech channel at 720p ??? really??? CNET is getting worse by the day

[@BadAtThis420]

You da man!!

[@mauriceabuatta3411]

Lol why would i take a portable drive with me while swimming?

[@ofeenee]

1:51 hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! xD

[@alyncat]

destroy noika 3310!

[@techfreak243]

he woudnt be able to, the 3310 would break the set first!

[@My-Opinion-Doesnt-Matter]

0:13 This guy is a joke

[@samdeur]

I often have to do my best to understand this guy perhaps because I'm European hahahha

[@AussieGTAGUY]

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