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One place I worked at some years ago had an office building made from precast concrete. In the center of the building was a records storage room whose walls and ceiling were one foot thick. The door into the room was a vault door. The engineer that designed and built the building was awfully proud of that (did I mention that this was a construction company that owned a precast concrete facility?). And inside the fireproof room was fireproof safe. I have no idea what the ratings were for the walls or the safe, but I have to think that they were pretty robust. This was in the New Mexico desert; we didn't worry about floods and such. Since the entire building was concrete (made stringing twinax cables a, shall we say, challenge), any fire was probably going to be localized. However, in the interest of full disclosure, that assumption was never put to the test while I worked there.
Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buck
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 2:42 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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
midrange.com
