Might initially sound ok until you realize that you've just made an "oven" (heat producing electronics inside an insulated enclosure). Plus during a fire, there's a tremendous about of steam released in the cabinet and the temps of anything designed for paper storage can reach 400F+. What would be an even bigger potential issue is that the heat producing electronics could prematurely kick off the fire insulation with internal heat - rendering the safe useless when the real fire hits - oops!! ioSafe is designed to be active data storage and a safe - like an aircraft black box for data. For a few hundred dollars you can get one. Or you can spend more hacking together something that may/may not work - your choice:)
Robb Moore, CEO
ioSafe Inc.
Lots of great comments on this thread. Just as a background, I started ioSafe to lower the hassle factor around DR/Backup. I was using the dual HDD technique with a fireproof safe strategy (which I still think is fine btw - IF....IF you're the type to stay disciplined with this approach). For me personally, I'm respectful of the Murphy's Law. The day my house burns down will be the worst possible timing after days of forgetting to transfer drives - i know me.
There are tons of ways to protect yourself and ioSafe is just one of them. ioSafe's advantage is that there's no other way I can think of to add real time protection to terabytes of data that's affordable for the SMB or consumer. Some folks might think the public cloud is the answer but for me it's not the complete solution (it's slow and has privacy issues). It can take months just to get one terabyte uploaded, let alone the 6+ terabytes I have just at my house - not to mention trying to get it all back or remove it from the internet. Offsite vaulting is great if you can remember - but it's a hassle. My life has enough hassles.
I use ioSafe as my #1 strategy to protect, backup and (with our Synology partnership) create a secure private cloud. 100% of my data, no bandwidth issues, no monthly fees, manageable, private and protected against the vast majority of data loss scenarios (HDD failure, accidental deletion, fires, floods, bolted to the floor, multiple backups targets located throughout the house). Now for nuclear war and sink holes, a little cloud and offsite vaulting makes total sense to layer in where you can. My point is that no one solution covers every single scenario but ioSafe covers a bunch of them - all the major ones.
Stay safe!
-Robb
Robb Moore, CEO and Founder
ioSafe Inc.
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Might initially sound ok until you realize that you've just made an "oven" (heat producing electronics inside an insulated enclosure). Plus during a fire, there's a tremendous about of steam released in the cabinet and the temps of anything designed for paper storage can reach 400F+. What would be an even bigger potential issue is that the heat producing electronics could prematurely kick off the fire insulation with internal heat - rendering the safe useless when the real fire hits - oops!! ioSafe is designed to be active data storage and a safe - like an aircraft black box for data. For a few hundred dollars you can get one. Or you can spend more hacking together something that may/may not work - your choice :)
Robb Moore, CEO
ioSafe Inc.
Lots of great comments on this thread. Just as a background, I started ioSafe to lower the hassle factor around DR/Backup. I was using the dual HDD technique with a fireproof safe strategy (which I still think is fine btw - IF....IF you're the type to stay disciplined with this approach). For me personally, I'm respectful of the Murphy's Law. The day my house burns down will be the worst possible timing after days of forgetting to transfer drives - i know me. There are tons of ways to protect yourself and ioSafe is just one of them. ioSafe's advantage is that there's no other way I can think of to add real time protection to terabytes of data that's affordable for the SMB or consumer. Some folks might think the public cloud is the answer but for me it's not the complete solution (it's slow and has privacy issues). It can take months just to get one terabyte uploaded, let alone the 6+ terabytes I have just at my house - not to mention trying to get it all back or remove it from the internet. Offsite vaulting is great if you can remember - but it's a hassle. My life has enough hassles. I use ioSafe as my #1 strategy to protect, backup and (with our Synology partnership) create a secure private cloud. 100% of my data, no bandwidth issues, no monthly fees, manageable, private and protected against the vast majority of data loss scenarios (HDD failure, accidental deletion, fires, floods, bolted to the floor, multiple backups targets located throughout the house). Now for nuclear war and sink holes, a little cloud and offsite vaulting makes total sense to layer in where you can. My point is that no one solution covers every single scenario but ioSafe covers a bunch of them - all the major ones. Stay safe! -Robb Robb Moore, CEO and Founder ioSafe Inc.