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  1. Re:Fire-Resistant Safe by tlhIngan · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Storing Data To Survive a Fire (or Other Disaster)

    Drill a small hole into a fire-resistant safe where your power and SCSI/IDE/SATA/USB/ETH cables go, then put your drives in there. Won't be easily stolen and will likely survive a house fire. Googling the terms "fire-resistant safe" revealed dozens of good options.

    Or just go and use IOSafe drives - they're armored and protected. They routinely do demos where they ask users to store some data on it and they'll put the drive in a fire, toss it off a building and then submerge it, then they'll extract the hard drive (or SSD, if desired for added resilience) and show that the data is still accessible.

    Yes, the enclosure's destroyed in the test, but the drive inside is safe and usable.

  2. Fireproof NAS by SirMasterboy · · Score: 2 · on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Storing Data To Survive a Fire (or Other Disaster)

    They make special NAS products that are designed to be fireproof and waterproof.

    https://iosafe.com/products-2b...

  3. Re:get a fire proof data safe... Problem solved. by SirMasterboy · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Storing Data To Survive a Fire (or Other Disaster)

    https://iosafe.com/products-2b...

  4. Hard to say with no budget or scenario... by sunhead.darkspear · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes?

    Well, Assuming that you are a domestic consumer with personal video's the way you talk about it... Tape is prohibitively expensive, RAID with Hotswap is probably a better option over a parked drive. If you need disaster proofing, then something like IOSafe is worth investigating. Fire and Water rated storage. https://iosafe.com/ IOSafe also has USB drive and NAS options. I am not affiliated with them, but do use them.

  5. Re:Slashdot by Lumpy · · Score: 1 · on 4 Tips For Your New Laptop

    http://iosafe.com/

    OR the poor mans choice. Two cheapie external drives. take one to work every friday and bring the other back. Works great but requires the user to not be lazy.

  6. Fireproof Hard Drive by dgatwood · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Ask Slashdot: Best On-Site Backup Plan?

    http://iosafe.com

  7. Re:Good backup for important files by denis-The-menace · · Score: 1 · on Google Drive Goes Live

    or http://iosafe.com/

    It's BBQ approved!
    http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/370119/iosafe_solopro_christmas_bbq/

  8. IoSAFE Solo 2TB by Beliskner · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Best Long-Term Video/Picture Storage?

    Iosafe Solo 2TB fire-proof waterproof external hard-drive http://www.iosafe.com has served me well

  9. ioSafe Waterproof & Fireproof USB Drive by IgnacioB · · Score: 1 · on How Do You Store Your Personal Photos?

    About $200 at Costco will get you a nice 2TB ioSafe USB Drive. Throw in some freeware backup software and you've got two of the three issues covered for disaster. Secure it somehow and the third of theft is covered with a nice tidy package. http://www.iosafe.com/products-solo-overview

  10. Re:Backups by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Ransomware Making a Comeback

    how about this http://iosafe.com/products-solo-overview

  11. Surprising... by CharlesJS · · Score: 1 · on New Virginia IT Systems Lack Network Backup

    shoulda woulda coulda....how is this surprising to anyone? I wonder if the GSA will get an overhaul under the new administration to potentially help nick these kinds of things in the butt. More importantly, where was ioSafe when they needed them?

  12. Options depend on your needs by mysidia · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Best Home Backup Strategy Now?

    It depends on how many important files you have. If you have just a few documents, you can still burn them to CD periodically, or use an online for-pay backup service such as Carbonite or Rsync.Net. The reason to use HDDs is because you have lots of data, or your computer data, including OS installs is very important to you, and you need a way to recover rapidly. (E.g. you _really_ can't wait, and it's worth the cost of external HDDs and accessorie to avoid waiting)

    If money is no object, ioSafe makes some fireproof, waterproof, shock-proof drive enclosures, which could help against disaster situations. The alternative is indeed use of an offsite location. You need a lock box or safe regardless of method, to help protect against human risks to your drives. Or utilize encryption to help prevent data from fallign into the wrong hands.

    Otherwise, if you use HDs for backup, consider a hard drive docking station. Like one of these or a voyager Q (who makes a model supporting Firewire800 also); docking stations are more convenient to buying a bunch of external HDs. Eventually, when you upgrade your hard drive, use the old one to store important files.

    If you have a stack of old hard drives, you can actually use them also. So a dock, and some plastic cases to put your internal HDs in could be favorable to buying a bunch of external HDs. (There are companies that specialize in selling rugged anti-static plastic cases for HDs, but I just pile them in a box, and use the original anti-static bags that came with new HDs)

    If you are using old HDDs for archival purposes, make sure to spin them up every few motnhs, or you suffer bit rot, and the mechanical components of the drive may fail.

    Or get one dock + multiple cheap HDDs for important documents.

    And possibly one large HD for a full system backup. Apple users are blessed with Time machine. Linux users can dd or rsync their files, and even have a script do it nightly (so long as you have multiple HDs, and cycle them after backups).

    Windows users have got to use third-party software or do some scripting.