Safe Data Storage & Planning

Data backup is a primary concern for small businesses across the country. Creating and maintaining a solid plan for backup of records, databases, Quickbooks and more is an often overlooked step that can lead to catastrophe.

In this blog we link to an Indiana Contractor that has taken the time to educate their clients on both the importance of backing up data and documents and how easy it is to implement a safe plan.

Read more about Artisan Electric

24 hr. Sale on ioSafe 1.5 TB Hard Drives @ Woot

For the next 24 hours you can purchase an ioSafe fireproof hard drive with a $100 instant rebate from Sellout.Woot!

Sellout.Woot is a partnership website with Yahoo! Shopping that showcases great products for a limited amount of time. During the 24 hr. sale, you are allow to "woot" or buy the ioSafe hard drive at the lowest price available online.

The catch is that you only get one chance to purchase, so make sure you buy the amount you need the first time!

MSRP: $299.99 plus shipping

Sellout.Woot Price: $249.99 plus $5 shipping

ioSafe Hard Drives Available in Australia

ioSafe, Inc. the manufacturer of hard drives that are fireproof and waterproof now has full service distribution and product availability in Australia. ioSafe Australia stocks and installs the USB external hard drives and the ioSafe R4 Network Storage Servers with full support for disaster recovery and data recovery services.

We recently had a chance to speak with Jon Ellis of ioSafe AU about the ioSafe hard drives and market in Australia. In the past year, Australia has had the misfortune of many wildfires or bush fires that have taken the lives of approx. 170 people in the state of Victoria. Some rural towns have also been completely destroyed leaving homes and businesses in a state of recovery and rebuilding.

From the business side of disaster recovery, Jon Ellis of ioSafe AU states, "Until now, users have been looking for and companies have been developing solutions for the one remaining flaw in disk drive technology. That flaw is that disk drives do not do well in natural disasters where floods and fires can destroy their precious information. But that flaw has now been removed by ioSafe, a leading supplier of processes and technologies that make electronics disaster proof.

ioSafe AU distributes the complete range of ioSafe products in Australia and New Zealand. iosafe AU is a privately held company with headquaters in Perth, WA and focuses on product leadership and continuous customer support."

If you have any comments or concerns about our products, services or support, please call +61 86102 2919 or send an email to sales@iosafe.com.au. We welcome your feedback.

FREE ioSafe Hard Drive

That is correct! Win on the best hard drives in the world from ioSafe by simply becoming a fan of the ioSafe on Facebook!

You can get a free 1TB external hard drive by becoming one of the first 5000 fans to join their group.

You can sign up as a friend for the giveaway at: http://www.facebook.com/iosafe

ioSafe CEO Gives Back to Community Suffering from Fire Disaster

Recently the CEO of ioSafe, manufacturer of hard drives that are fireproof and waterproof announced that he is giving away free ioSafe solo hard drives to the victims of the Highway 49 wildfire.

This California wildfire took place in Auburn, CA the headquarters of ioSafe, Inc. where the CEO Robb Moore and his family live. Fire insurance can help victims rebuild homes, but often times the photographs and videos are gone forever. Read more about this story in the Auburn Journal

Photo by Michael Kirby

MacWorld ioSafe Solo Review

Today MacWorld gave the ioSafe Solo hard drive the THUMBS UP after putting the Solo through some 3,000 Degree fire balls at The Crucible and even tossing the hard drive into a downtown San Francisco fountain.

You can read watch the video and read the the full ioSafe review at:

http://www.macworld.com/article/142801/2009/09/iosafe_solo.html

For more information on these rugged hard drives visit www.iosafe.com

ReadyNAS Duo and ioSafe Solo Workaround

For those of you using the ReadyNAS Duo as your backup server there have been some issues with the ReadyNAS recognizing the ioSafe Solo.

A clever workaround is as follows:

Reboot the DUO with the ioSafe hard drive plugged into the back USB port. Disable the DUO's power timer (this timer shuts down the device at night and powers back on in the AM) and the Solo will work as a backup drive to of your Netgear home media server or business server.