What is the safest place to store an external hard drive?

Ideally I'd like to back everything up to a cloud. But my Internet connection probably isn't fast enough to back everything up so I'd still like a secure place to store them.

I would also like to guard against all low-probability events, such as table collapses, floods, earthquakes, window-shattering meteors, and me accidentally stepping on my old hard drives.

InquilineKea

• hardware

Comments

• John Lovejoy: backups are not a means of digital preservation
• Michael Kjörling: This question is about general computer support, and probably fits better over on SuperUser.
• wizzard0: You are asking a wrong question for many reasons: 1. it's not about DP
• HDs fail anyway, it's not like you can help much with this 3. what is the expected budget? how many HDs? how do you store them currently? etc etc etc.
• Donald.McLean: Is your connection really that slow relative to the amount of data that you want to back up? It took me a couple of months for my initial backup to the service that I use but maintaining the backup is nothing. Also, some companies, such as CrashPlan, offer seeding services. You pay a fee and they mail you a physical disk that you back everything up to and mail back to them.