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The Hollon HDS-500E is a KSG-certified data media safe with a 1-hour, 1,850-degree-Fahrenheit fire rating and a 125-degree-Fahrenheit interior temperature ceiling, sized as the smallest safe in Hollon's data safe line for individuals and small businesses protecting critical digital media that a standard paper-rated fire safe cannot save. Paper starts to char above 350 degrees Fahrenheit, which is the interior threshold most residential and small-business fire safes are built to withstand. Electronic media, external hard drives, SSDs, USB drives, LTO backup tapes, CDs and DVDs, and film archives are far more heat-sensitive, and permanent data loss can start above 125 degrees. A paper-rated fire safe that holds your backup drive alongside your tax records protects the paper but destroys the drive. The HDS-500E keeps the interior below the 125-degree data-loss threshold for the full 1-hour KSG fire test at 1,850 degrees Fahrenheit externally, keeping the media intact through the same fire the paper survives.
The fire rating is one of three pieces of the data-safe protection story. Hollon also 30-foot-impact-rates the HDS-500E to survive a two-story fall in a structural collapse, which matters because a data safe stored on an upper floor of a burning building is likely to fall through the floor as the structure fails. A safe that passes the fire test but breaks open on impact loses the media anyway. The 30-foot impact rating means the seal holds even after that fall. The third piece is water and humidity: the HDS-500E is engineered to protect against sprinklers, direct water exposure during firefighting, and long-term humidity ingress that would otherwise corrode metal contacts on drives and tapes.
The HDS-500E ships standard with an electronic digital keypad for quick access without the pause a mechanical dial requires when you're pulling a drive at the end of a workday. The interior holds one removable, adjustable shelf, giving you a configurable single compartment for a mix of media formats. The compact 19.75-inch-tall, 13.75-inch-wide, 16.00-inch-deep exterior fits in a closet, credenza, or under a desk without dominating the room, and the 141-pound weight is heavy enough to deter a snatch-and-go but light enough to reposition without professional movers. The interior measures 11.25 by 4.75 by 7.25 inches, providing 0.22 cubic feet of usable space, which is the right size for a personal or single-workstation backup archive, a small firm's critical drive set, or an individual archivist's core media collection.
If your archive has grown beyond what fits in 0.22 cubic feet, Hollon publishes two larger data safes on the same platform: the HDS-750E at 1.09 cubic feet of interior space and the HDS-1000E at 1.84 cubic feet, both with the same 1-hour KSG fire rating and the same electronic S&G Type 1 lock. Call us at 800-207-2259, Monday through Friday, 8AM to 5PM PST, if you want help sizing a data safe to your specific media archive or matching the fire and impact rating to your business continuity or data retention requirements.
Features
Fire Protection
Impact Protection
Water & Humidity Protection
Lock
Capacity & Dimensions
Anchoring
The Hollon HDS-500E is a KSG-certified data media safe with a 1-hour, 1,850-degree-Fahrenheit fire rating and a 125-degree-Fahrenheit interior temperature ceiling, sized as the smallest safe in Hollon's data safe line for individuals and small businesses protecting critical digital media that a standard paper-rated fire safe cannot save. Paper starts to char above 350 degrees Fahrenheit, which is the interior threshold most residential and small-business fire safes are built to withstand. Electronic media, external hard drives, SSDs, USB drives, LTO backup tapes, CDs and DVDs, and film archives are far more heat-sensitive, and permanent data loss can start above 125 degrees. A paper-rated fire safe that holds your backup drive alongside your tax records protects the paper but destroys the drive. The HDS-500E keeps the interior below the 125-degree data-loss threshold for the full 1-hour KSG fire test at 1,850 degrees Fahrenheit externally, keeping the media intact through the same fire the paper survives.
The fire rating is one of three pieces of the data-safe protection story. Hollon also 30-foot-impact-rates the HDS-500E to survive a two-story fall in a structural collapse, which matters because a data safe stored on an upper floor of a burning building is likely to fall through the floor as the structure fails. A safe that passes the fire test but breaks open on impact loses the media anyway. The 30-foot impact rating means the seal holds even after that fall. The third piece is water and humidity: the HDS-500E is engineered to protect against sprinklers, direct water exposure during firefighting, and long-term humidity ingress that would otherwise corrode metal contacts on drives and tapes.
The HDS-500E ships standard with an electronic digital keypad for quick access without the pause a mechanical dial requires when you're pulling a drive at the end of a workday. The interior holds one removable, adjustable shelf, giving you a configurable single compartment for a mix of media formats. The compact 19.75-inch-tall, 13.75-inch-wide, 16.00-inch-deep exterior fits in a closet, credenza, or under a desk without dominating the room, and the 141-pound weight is heavy enough to deter a snatch-and-go but light enough to reposition without professional movers. The interior measures 11.25 by 4.75 by 7.25 inches, providing 0.22 cubic feet of usable space, which is the right size for a personal or single-workstation backup archive, a small firm's critical drive set, or an individual archivist's core media collection.
If your archive has grown beyond what fits in 0.22 cubic feet, Hollon publishes two larger data safes on the same platform: the HDS-750E at 1.09 cubic feet of interior space and the HDS-1000E at 1.84 cubic feet, both with the same 1-hour KSG fire rating and the same electronic S&G Type 1 lock. Call us at 800-207-2259, Monday through Friday, 8AM to 5PM PST, if you want help sizing a data safe to your specific media archive or matching the fire and impact rating to your business continuity or data retention requirements.
Features
Fire Protection
Impact Protection
Water & Humidity Protection
Lock
Capacity & Dimensions
Anchoring
