A Sturdy Companion: Olixir Mobile Data Vault 3DX

Olixir Data Vault 3DX In Detail

The Data Vault 3DX is nicely designed, even if the workmanship could be better. The special plastic corners, for example, are merely stuck on to the drive. The said plastic corners not only serve to absorb shocks, but they are shaped at the top and bottom so that they fit together, making it easy to stack several Vaults on top of one another. We wouldn't want to do that with more than two or three, however, because the rubber feet make it potentially unstable.

On the back are jumpers needed for many configurations. Serving as an interface on the Data Vault 3DX is a small Centronics connector to which individual cables can be attached: FireWire, PCMCIA, USB - this one single drive makes it all possible.

The rubber corners can be taken off. Behind it are screws that allow the Data Vault 3DX to be opened, although for Olixir this means that the user loses warranty protection.

The rubber corners are shaped so that it is possible to stack up several Data Vault 3DXs.

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.