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The ioSafe Solo external USB hard drives offer great value per gigabyte when compared to regular brands of disk drives. Fire and flood protection are a vital element to any backup, storage and recovery plan, now for little more than the cost of a regular external backup device you can get priceless fire and flood insurance for your digital family photo albums and business data
The following is an excerpt from Home Server Hacks and Microsoft MVP Donavon West
Creating a WHS disaster recovery plan
How can you effectively use the ioSafe Solo as part of your Windows Home Server disaster recovery plan? As far as I see it there are two approaches that you can take:
Plan A
With this approach, you build a system comprised of a standard SATA system drive and use two or more ioSafe USB drives for data storage. With data duplication turned on, you will have all of your files (minus re-creatable system files) stored on disaster proof drives. If you ever experienced a fire, the WHS would be destroyed (you can rebuild that), but all of your data will be secure.
Once the ioSafe drives are back (you need to send the charred remains back to ioSafe to be recovered), simply plug them in, rebuild the system drive using the system recovery DVD and you are back in business my man!
Plan A is more costly (requiring multiply ioSafe drives) but provides complete protection for all of your data. Note that because you entire system (minus the system drive) is running on USB connected drives, the data throughput speed will not be as snappy as on internal SATA systems.
Plan B
The other less costly approach is to build up a standard system utilizing standard drives, like the one you probably have right now. Power Pack 1 introduced a feature that will let you backup certain high value shares to an external hard drive. Plan B would make that external hard drive a fireproof/waterproof ioSafe Solo drive.
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