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Fire/water proof small safe for storing external hard drives?

What do you want it to protect against? Protecting against water is easy. Fireproof? Not really feasible in something like that.
 
Not fire "proof", but there are plenty of safes on the market that will protect documents in them for up to an hour (or something like that) in typical temperatures encountered in house fires.
 
Originally posted by: Jumpem
Does anyone use something like this, or have a suggestion?

I found this one on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sentry-F...f=cm_cr_pr_product_top
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i think the pricier ones are rated to higher temps, fwiw.

really itd be cost effective probably to just get another external drive and keep it somewhere else, and update it once a month, as a firesafe isnt a guarantee that something will survive a fire, if the fire is too hot and lasts too long you could be screwed anyway.
 
Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
What do you want it to protect against? Protecting against water is easy. Fireproof? Not really feasible in something like that.
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Fire and water. I plan to keep another duplicate external drive offsite somewhere too.
 
It may be fire proof, but what good does it do if it gets up to x degrees inside the safe during a fire thus ruining whatever you're trying to protect.
 
her209 said:
It may be fire proof, but what good does it do if it gets up to x degrees inside the safe during a fire thus ruining whatever you're trying to protect.
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Most fire ratings are for paper @ so many hours. Your HDD will be toast far sooner than that. Paper is in the ~450 degree area, most HDDs are dead in ~200's.
 
her209 said:
It may be fire proof, but what good does it do if it gets up to x degrees inside the safe during a fire thus ruining whatever you're trying to protect.
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if it can protect paper, it can protect a drive. anyways if it is your only backup and single site,,that is the wrong way anyways.
 
Just use offsite backup. Even if your house is nuked, your data will still be safe.

You can get unlimited offsite backup for fairly cheap with Mozy, Carbonite, Crashplan, etc
 
danielsnyder said:
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Wow you registered here just to post that? (as well as in another thread necro in mem/storage)

As far as offsite backup goes it doesn't pay for those with limited connection speeds and lots of data. IIRC Mozy is no longer unlimited for home users.
 
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0roo0roo said:
if it can protect paper, it can protect a drive. anyways if it is your only backup and single site,,that is the wrong way anyways.
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Paper begins to char (darken) around 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
I tell people this all the time...put your tapes/drives/optical media in your oven. Set temp to 350 and leave them there for an hour. When cool remove and try to read/restore. If successful a document safe will work. 😀

This is why they have media safes with an upper interior limit of 125 degrees F.
 
Jumpem said:
Does anyone use something like this, or have a suggestion?
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My wife bought a small fireproof safe a few weeks ago from wal-mart, not sure what the rating is.



randay said:
what porno could possibly be that important?
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I do video blogging on youtube, and use videos and images as content for my websites. Protecting the original videos and images is important if I ever have to file a copyright infringmene suit against someone.

Then there are the years of digital images that my wife and I have taken of the family - christmas, birthdays,,, stuff like that.

This past weekend my wife and I went camping at a local lake. Before we left, we put our external drives in the safe.
 
Put your valuables on the lowest possible level of the home at floor level, or better in the ground itself. As long as it is water tight your stuff will outlast any fire. Remember fire burns up so the closer to the ground the less likely it will experience high temps. My uncle is a fire chief and has been a fireman for decades. He told me stories all the time how in apartment buildings things in safes would be destroyed but people who had their money stashed in coffee cans under the bed didn't lose cash. The ones with wall safes often did.
 
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