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Digital and analog media are among the most important items to protect in this day and age.  Whether you store your information on DVDs, CDs, on memory cards or have analog media that must be protected, media safes are vital. Protecting data and media from the threat of fire and flood, as well as from the potential for burglary is important; only specially designed media safes should be trusted to provide this necessary protection.  How do you choose the best media safe for your needs?

Fireproof Media Safes – Fire presents an enormous threat to any home or business.  It also poses a unique threat to your media.  While many safes can protect other items against the threat of direct exposure to fire, media safes protect your vital media from the threat of damaging heat – some safes can do this in excess of 30 minutes, maintaining an interior temperature of 125 degrees or lower (ensuring that your media remains safe).  These safes are ideal for DVDs, CDs, USB drives and removable media.

Waterproof Media Safes – Flood and water from firefighters pose other threats to your media.  Water can irrevocably damage your media, ruining discs and drives very quickly.  Protecting your media means finding media safes that are not only fireproof, but are waterproof, as well. A waterproof media safe should provide complete protection for your media for at least 24 hours of submersion, though you will find options that offer longer protection.

Size – Of course, the size you choose will be determined by how much and what type of media you choose to store.  You will find very small media safes that can accommodate up to 100 CDs or DVDs, some of which come with removable trays and protective sleeves, as well.

Locking Mechanism – As with all safes, you must also decide what type of lock you want for media safes.  You will find that many options have a simple key lock, while others make use of dial combination locks and digital keypad locks with key overrides.  These types of safes usually do not use exotic locking systems, such as fingerprint locks.

Protecting your media with media safes is vital.  Your information is of vital importance, whether it is essential business operational data or simply a collection of family photographs painstakingly added to a DVD.  Protecting that media is easy when you choose the right safe for the job.