At 11:38 AM 2/23/2009, you wrote:
Anyone have any experience with these? I was leaning towards the USB/eSata
one along with a couple 1.5TB Seagates to back up my NAS. I plan on
keeping one drive in my fireproof safe and the other will be shipped
offsite. If I do this, what is the best way to store the drives? Static
bags? Vacuum packed? Enclosures of some kind? I am not averse to
spending a few bucks to protect the drives while they are in storage.
I stick mine in a ziplock freezer bag with a desiccant bag.
Unless your safe is in the ground, in concrete you are better off
putting the backup drive off site or in a safety deposit box. Here in
Southern California we have lots of fires, and I have a friend that
is a locksmith. After a recent fire in an expensive area of Santa
Barbara, he got lots of calls to open fireproof safes. The only ones
where the contents survived were in the ground.
