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Expert Advice on Safes and Vault Doors

UL vs ETL certifications, the science behind time-and temperature ratings, and why picking the wrong fire rating for digital media could cost you everything.

Standard fireproof safes protect paper. Digital media needs a lower interior temperature to survive. Here is what makes the Phoenix 2001 built for the job.

When wildfires spread, families often flee with only minutes of notice. Here's what to store in a fireproof safe (and why digital media needs its own kind of safe).

Many safe consumers assume that sensitive items such as hard drives, DVD's or photographs can be stored in a standard fireproof safe and that these items will be protected.  
Storing digital media is quickly becoming more and more important in the hi-tech modern world of today. Thankfully digital storage is getting cheaper but one aspect that is often forgotten is securing such storage devices so that they will be safe from fire, water, and theft. Often times digital media has a greater actual and sentimental value than many traditional valuables. Additionally, digital media is usually much more sensitive than the typical mainstays of home safes and necessitates special care from heat and humidity. Here we’ll look at some of the basic options that are available for securing your digital data and why it's important.

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