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That's it - with IBM joining the RDX party, there is now effectively only one business-class removable disk drive technology in town for backup, and that's ProStor. RDX is a USB-connect dock and removable 160, 320 or 500GB disk drives, that comes with backup software - Backup Exec or Yosemite FileKeeper. You back up to it like …

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  1. E

    RDX?

    Do these drives have explosive performance?

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Bringing a whole new meaning to the "harddisk going bang"

    I keep reading the headline as IBM to ship explosive removable drives. I wouldn't do so much percussive maintenance to old workstations and servers if the drives were made with RDX.

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  3. Steve Wehrle
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    Excellent Construction Material

    According to Wikipedia, RDX "burns rather than explodes and detonates only with a detonator, being unaffected even by small arms fire"

    So if you want a hard drive that can hand a 9mm slug, this is just what you need.

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