Waterproof Hard drive

Preventing Data Loss from Flood, Sprinkler Systems and Fire Hoses
Protecting your business computer systems from water or flood is just as important in business continuity planning as is protecting from fire. As over 90% of fires have water present, data loss from these elements can have a profound effect on business resumption.

A waterproof hard drive is the best hardware to ensure data recovery after sustaining water damage. Backup hardware that has been tested rigorously for protection during flood and complete submersion conditions makes the most sense as you plan your data backup and recovery strategy.

Water Protection Data Backup Strategy
ioSafe USB fire safe hard drives as well as the R4 Network attached storage SATA drives are encapsulated in a waterproof barrier capable of direct immersion in freshwater or saltwater up to 30 feet. When installing backup and recovery hardware in basements, low lying areas or flood zones, having this extra level of waterproof protection is well worth the investment.

Even during a fire situation, the ioSafe hard drives and data backup hardware will protect your data during and after the blaze has been extinguished. The unique engineering of ioSafe hardware makes these products truly unique and special for all aspects of business continuity and disaster recovery.

Data Recovery after a Disaster

Data recovery is a very important aspect for business continuity at businesses of all sizes. No matter if you run your own business from home or work remotely outside of the big city, the possibility of a hard drive crash is inevitable. Proper planning will ensure that you can recover your data from a simple drive crash to even a fire or flood situation.

Backing up your data
Whether you work from a laptop or desktop workstation the first step to data recovery is making sure you have a backup copy of your files. A simple spare hard drive, flash drive or backup DVD or CD is a great place to start. For the best fireproof hard drive protection choose a fire safe USB drive or NAS device.

Storing your backup copy
Once you've made your backup copy you'll need to properly store the information to ensure you can recover your files. If you have a fireproof hard drive this step you've pretty much got covered. However, if you do not have one of these devices it is generally a rule of thumb to store your data offsite in either a bank deposit box, or at least in another location. This will help reduce the risk of total data loss in the event of a fire or flood.

A combination of both on-site and off-site data storage is always the most solid approach. Every business is unique and one plan may work better for you than the other.

Data Recovery Service
Data recovery in some instances can be as simple as reverting to a backup copy from last week or months CD / DVD or tape. In other situations, such as a fire or flood this could mean that more serious steps must be taken to recover your data from your hard disk drive. Data storage hardware like ioSafe comes standard with a data recovery service in the purchase price. However if you have yet to incorporate a complete solution into your backup strategy then you will need to contact a professional service company to assist.

There are many companies who specialize in data recovery and below you will find a fairly comprehensive list:
On Track
Drive Savers
Salvage Data
Data Recovery Group
Vantage
Computer Medic - Ann Arbor, MI
Total Recall (not the movie with Arnold)
CBL data recovery service
ACR Data Recovery

To find a data recovery service company in your state, check out this complete guide:
http://www.datarecoverycompanies.com/stateguide.html

Fire Safe USB Hard Drives

Sentry Group has recently teamed up with Maxtor to develop their own version of a fire resistant and waterproof USB hard drive. This truly validates the market on many levels for other manufacturers of similar storage devices.

This new product by Sentry Group comes in at a very attractive price for the consumer level use. With storage capacity limited at 160GB the product won't be sufficient for business and enterprise use, however it is great to see that other safe manufacturers understand the value and support further development of the market.

The full press release can be found here:
http://www.sentrysafe.com/content/news.aspx

Enterprise Data Storage: Servers and Hardware

Enterprise level storage at many levels has traditionally been quite complicated. Take your exchange servers, file servers, and domain and user group sharing security issues and toss in your DR strategy and we're talking lots of equipment, lots of dollar signs and plenty of headaches.

Enterprise Storage Hardware Simplified.
Step 1. Deploy ioSafe NAS server
Step 2. Enjoy enterprise class features, remote administration, flexibility in mixed environments all in a fireproof and waterproof aircraft black box for disaster recovery.
Step 3. Look at your bottom line cost savings for administration, mitigated security risks associated with tape and DR plan that meets business goals as your company moves forward.
Step 4. High five your consistently happy boss.


ioSafe hardware alloys the enterprise to rapidly deploy simple DR / data storage / backup hardware at remote and branch offices without the headache or hassle of tape.