External hard drive in a gun safe?

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I recently invested in a proper safe, a Liberty Tactical 24. It's awesome! I haven't had any guns to put in there since the tragic boating accident, but I put my external hard drive computer backup in there. But I wonder if it would survive a fire. The safe is rated not to exceed 350° for thirty minutes. Does anyone know if the hard drive would survive? I've googled around and didn't find any hard data.

Taltons' Safes in Garner NC, where I bought it, suggested I put it in a container to protect from moisture. During a fire, the safe's fire walls are designed to release moisture into the safe for cooling, and he was thinking that could be bad for the electronics.

I'm also wondering if anyone makes a hard drive specifically designed for this? There are some on Amazon that are safes in themselves, the size of a shoe box or more, bolt to the floor, and cost hundreds of dollars. I don't want that.

Anybody know anything about this?
 
It is unlikely that it would survive a fire, but it might be fine if it was only 350 for 30 min.

But you might not care. If the original and the backup are in different buildings then the destruction of one or the other is okay.
 
I doubt it would survive a significant or total melt down fire. The standby, meaning non powered, rating of the electronics would likely be exceeded and the plastic would likely melt, as well as the ICs could become dislodged as the solder reflows. JimB is correct, if you're concerned about it, put it in another building.
 
Fire resistant document bags can hold the external drive and give added protection past the rating of the safe.
 
While my thoughts now go a different direction, this is an interesting thread.
I would (and maybe now I SHOULD) need to get another external to keep locked up in the safe.

I dont worry about fires too much, instead I worry about losing pictures and documents stored on them. Currently keep my main one in a computer bag and always said it'd be one of the first things I grabbed if something went down, as its got things that cant be replaced.

I have pictures and such on several devices (externals), but I should get another 2TB just for safe keeping (literally!)
 
HMP said:
While my thoughts now go a different direction, this is an interesting thread.
I would (and maybe now I SHOULD) need to get another external to keep locked up in the safe.

I dont worry about fires too much, instead I worry about losing pictures and documents stored on them. Currently keep my main one in a computer bag and always said it'd be one of the first things I grabbed if something went down, as its got things that cant be replaced.

I have pictures and such on several devices (externals), but I should get another 2TB just for safe keeping (literally!)
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Freenas.
 
Better off buying some online storage for your stuff. Alot of the seagate and WD external harddisks come with software now to sync them to cloud storage that way you don't have to worry about it. Drives fail the only protection from that is multiple copies in different locations. Google is like $10 a terabyte now for personal accounts it's prob the best cheap to easy to use ratio out there.
Cheapest storing right now is AWS Glacier that I'm aware of, but they charge for reads (restores), but it's stupid cheap.
Carbonite and the ilk have decent apps across platforms, PC, mac, tablet, phone so it's possible to get something that protects your whole household.
 
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