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Sentry Safe Fire-Safe / Waterproof USB Hard Drives

  November 14th, 2007



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Sentry Safe Fire-Safe / Waterproof USB Hard Drives

External hard drives traditionally provide data security against hardware failures, software viruses, and maybe theft if you encrypt your data. However, in face of threats like fire and flood, these storage solutions don't really stand a chance.

Sentry Group has teamed up with Maxtor to develop the first ever fire resistant and waterproof USB hard drive that is especially designed to survive in a fire up to 1550F degrees for 30 minutes and underwater for up to 24 hours. Sentry took care of the physical protection, while Maxtor provided the drive and backup software against fatal crash and trojan horse attack. The bundled software is called SafetyDrill - a new bare metal system restore feature allows for a nearly instantaneous restoration of an entire system. This is definitely too cool to miss, even if the MSRP is set at $259.99 for 80GB and $319.99 for 160GB.

If you don't feel like getting an integrated solution, Sentry also offers a $520 safe with a USB pass-through and storage for over a hundred CD/DVDs, probably some flash drives and documents.

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