"It has a full metal jacket and it is machined out of a solid billet of aluminum," ioSafe CEO Robb Moore said.

of the shootout on YouTube.

The drive ranges in size from 250GB to 1TB and is priced starting at US$150.

The case is waterproof and can protect the data for up to three days in salt or fresh water at a depth of 10 feet, or 30 feet in the case of the titanium SSD version. The aluminum drive can withstand drops from 10 feet and the titanium from 20 feet.

But the most impressive demonstration of the drive's durability was at a Las Vegas gun range where data was recovered after the drive was shot with six blasts from a 12-gauge shot gun. The outer case was peppered with buckshot but there was no loss of data. Moore never claimed the drive could withstand gun blasts but said the demonstration was a fun way to show its durability.