disaster secure hard drives

[odysseus]

i can crack progoplug in 10 mins. not secure at all. would not recommend it

Seriously, if someone is not at least putting this inside a VPN to interface the internet, they are being a silly person.

[NorCal Einstein]

I personally wouldn't buy that "disaster proof" hard drive. Others have mentioned it and I feel the same way; put it in a online backup service. The one that I recommend is Crash Plan. They have a good encryption system, and they have software to automatically backup your files offsite so you don't have to remember to do it manually.

If a quality online backup service is too expensive, I would just get a 3.5 inch hard drive and external hard drive enclosure (making your own portable hard drive). I would recommend doing this over buying a off-the-shelf external drive because you can pick out a high quality hard drive and end up with a better external drive than if you were to just get a pre-assembled one. Throw it in a fire safe if you're worried about fire and maybe a ziplock bag might help with water.

If you still feel like your data is vulnerable, make a copy of it to another hard drive/flash drive and give it to a family member that lives elsewhere.

[augoldminer]

I seldom have a hard drive last over 2 years.

If you are going to store long term use a solid state hard drive.

I keep a clone drive for my computer.

lose a hard drive and you can just pop in your clone drive and be back online in 15 minutes. Then the next day clone a new drive.
I reclone my drive about once a month so i have lost very little data in the last 10 years since i had to format and clean load win XP.

[Barbarossa]

For the sake of posterity.

I've uploaded all my selfies taken in the bathroom mirror to the cloud.

Duck face yo!

[the86d]

I wouldn't trust MY data to an on-line backup company, as SOME of these coincide with my reasons: http://www.kadansky.com/files/newsle...012_06_27.html

I like to have exclusive access to my data... and pr0n.