[vox] OT: grass fires

[Don Armstrong]

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004, Paul wrote:
> My understanding is that "fireproof" safes are designed only to keep
> paper documents safe through an "average" fire and CDR/RW's (and
> probably tapes) would melt or at least be rendered unreadable in the
> same fire.

You actually want a so-called media safe, which is supposed to keep
the temperature below around 125F instead of a safe which just keeps
the temperature below 451F. [Media safes tend to cost 2-3x as much as
the equivalent paper safe.]


Don Armstrong

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