Both of the hard drives burned, but the Synology began melting after just a few minutes, fueling the fire and causing it to burn even brighter.Īs the BeyondCloud melted and filled the air with noxious fumes, the ioSafe G3 largely maintained its shape amid the flames, though it did become significantly charred. Both the Synology BeyondCloud and the ioSafe G3 were placed in a fire pit, where we doused them with lighter fluid and set them on fire. With our photos safely stored on both devices, we were ready to simulate a disaster – a house fire. At that point, copies of the photo were stored on the NAS (making them accessible remotely as a NAS serves as a private cloud) and on the ioSafe Solo G3, where they were protected from disaster. The ioSafe G3 was plugged into the back of the NAS, and using Synology's browser-based DiskStation software, we scheduled a backup that automatically transferred the photos we took from the NAS to the ioSafe Solo G3.
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We wanted to show that the ioSafe Solo G3 could keep data safe from a fire, so to begin with, we shot a series of photos on a DSLR camera, which were stored on an SD card.įrom the SD card, we transferred the files to the Synology BeyondCloud NAS. The video we shared is only a small portion of the more than an hour of footage we shot ahead of the fire.
Make sure to scroll down to the bottom of the post - we're going to be giving away a complete backup solution consisting of a 3TB Synology DiskStation BeyondCloud NAS and a 3TB ioSafe Solo G3. After watching the video, you can read on for more details on how the Synology BeyondCloud and ioSafe G3 work together and what you can do with them. We filmed everything so you could see how the ioSafe G3 held up and watch the data recovery process. If you want to jump right to the good stuff, aka the fire, watch the video below.
We checked out some of the things you can do with the setup and then we set it all on fire. We traveled to Seattle to meet up with ioSafe and Synology to test out a Synology BeyondCloud NAS paired with an ioSafe Solo G3, a multi-backup solution that protects data from all kinds of damage, from hard drive failures to a house fire. Synology is known for its line of DiskStation NAS devices and for its DiskStation Manager software, which can be used for hassle-free backups, personal cloud storage, and more. If you're not familiar with ioSafe and Synology, ioSafe is best known for its disaster proof solutions, producing a range of hard drives that can withstand fire and water damage. With World Backup Day coming up, we teamed up with ioSafe and Synology to explore the consumer-oriented backup options they offer and to demonstrate the importance of keeping several copies of your data by simulating the effects of a house fire on the hardware. Many of us keep backups of our data on hard drives, using Apple's Time Machine, but how many of us keep multiple copies? And copies that are protected from not only disk failures, but also natural disaster? Estimates suggest 30 percent of people have never backed up their data, and the number of people who keep multiple backups is even lower.
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