ManiacDan Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 If only they made fire-proof NAS boxes. I'm sure someone could figure that out... Also, a free unlimited cloud service? How could they possibly monetize that? I don't trust them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 I may look into some cloud storage in the future, but I don't have any spare money for it right now. There are plenty of free services out there or at least trial periods: http://www.justcloud.com/ I have 2.2GB of cloud storage for free w/ Dropbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 I may look into some cloud storage in the future, but I don't have any spare money for it right now. There are plenty of free services out there or at least trial periods: http://www.justcloud.com/ If it's sensitive enough that I need to store it off-site, I probably don't want it on some free service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicken Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 My main PC I use a RAID1 for a little extra security. I have a sync between my laptop and PC periodically so that the important stuff at least exists on both of them. All my work stuff also exists on my VPS so it's safe offsite. Haven't lost anything important since I started doing this, though if I did experience a fire or something that took out both my laptop and desktop I'd loose a few things (work stuff would all be safe though) I do have a fire safe with a few important papers in it. Probably wouldn't be too hard to get a small external drive or thumb drive, toss the really important stuff on there and put it inside as well. Just haven't done it, mainly because I don't have either an external drive or thumb drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidAM Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Check the rating on your fire safe before you do that. They keep the fire out, but not all of the heat. If the internal temperature gets too high (and I don't know what value that is), it could damage whatever media you put in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 You could always encrypt the data and then throw it in a safety deposit box, or store it at a friend's/relative's house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xylex Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 If fire really is your main concern, Sentry makes a few USB firesafes so you can have an external drive (or array) plugged in while in the safe. And those ones are storage-media rated for a couple hours or so. But I'm an online backup fan, there's plenty of scenarios other than fire or drive failure that online backups protect against. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 If fire really is your main concern, Sentry makes a few USB firesafes so you can have an external drive (or array) plugged in while in the safe. And those ones are storage-media rated for a couple hours or so. But I'm an online backup fan, there's plenty of scenarios other than fire or drive failure that online backups protect against. Wouldn't that make the drive really hot during operation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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