Hmm, my safe is a Browning gun safe that is fire rated too 1200°/90 min.. Besides storing one on site in my safe I will have a duplicate that is going off site. ;-) g
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > -- -Gary
