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  3. January 2010

Re: Media Safe fire ratings

ChadB wrote:

I did find one vendor that gave a statistic of the average business fire
burning for 20 minutes at a temp of 800 degrees (far below the rating of he
UL 125 approved safes). It suggested that more inaccessible/rural
businesses would want to plan for more time before firefighters could
extinquish. Another vendor described the 2hr/3hr models as probable
overkill.

I wouldn't personally plan for the average fire; I'd be planning for the
worst. If that safe will be your one and only repository of your
business' data, I'd get the best I could possibly afford, especially
since it's a one time purchase. If the safe is a convenience depository
and your primary backups are off site, maybe it makes sense to save the
extra thousands and buy the lesser-rated safe.

Trade-offs.
--buck

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