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For a large company or a home user, the Fire-Safe waterproof hard drive comes in a nice size of 160GB and is claimed to be the world’s first and only fire resistant and waterproof hard drive.

Connects via USB, as expected, and allows you to backup your important files and photos while staying encased safely keeping your information until you need it. The company, SentrySafe, offers a support program that promises the will attempt to recover your data in the event of a fire or water accident.

Comes with backup software, password protection and data encryption to keep your data safe when not at risk of fire or water damage, too. A definite forethought, not afterthought, for data protection.

Honestly, so many say that RAID is a must-have backup choice but just remember a few things about it, before making it your number one solution.

RAID 1 is certainly great for helping you retrieve your information if the main hard drive fails.  Using a mirrored RAID can be a great choice if that happens but what about other situations?  It will not prevent malicious software issues that come upon you and attack your system, like viruses.

Why is RAID 1 a bad choice during those times?  Because, the way it works is to copy each and every file from one hard drive to the mirrored backup drive.  If the virus or malicious code is on your main drive, you get it twice, because it copies directly to your backup drive.

Your best solution in these cases, if not just drive failure, which RAID 1 is perfect for…would be a third-party application like Pexagon Technologies has available on the Store-It Pro 2.5″ Portable Hard Drives because you are choosing when to backup your information (with the press of a button) and you can choose only the most valid information to be stored (photos, music, documents) in case of a system crash due to a virus.