badbass Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 If you live in an area that floods and you have to leave what do you do with your computers if you are on the first floor? Just curious has anyone thought of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vailixi Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 Build waterproof enclosures for your computers if it is cost effective. Pelican makes some really nice waterproof cases. Then You'll also probably have to have some kind of cooling system other than air. But I can see most of the system being completely waterproofed. Maybe the not the power supply. You'll want to be able to shut everything down. You can probably do this with some kind of switch like fish tanks have. It's basically two electrical leads that are close enough together that when the water level is up enough or down far enough in some cases the liquid will close the circuit in some cases break the circuit depending on how you are doing things. Like a water level alarm. Maybe make something like that to shut things off. But really if you can afford a bunch of this stuff. Get a room on the top floor instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 Remote storage and home insurance. Hardware is easy to replace, data isn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 If you live someplace where it's not uncommon to go home and find the floor wet due to flooding, MOVE. This situation can't be good for anything, including your computer(s). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueWyvern Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 I live in an area that has a chance of flooding as well, however I don't quite have the ability to move anywhere that doesn't have potential flooding issues. Truly the best practices are Having appropriate home owner's / Renter's insurance Backing up data offsite (I sprang for a synology to keep at my in-laws house (several towns away) and rsync on a nightly basis) being smart about placement of electrical equipment, nothing directly on the floor, towers sit on top of the desk, Power strip mounted a few feet up from the floor on the wall. You can do other improvements to your home to help mitigate flood damage, but everything is situational. Hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbass Posted June 13, 2016 Author Share Posted June 13, 2016 BlueWyvern you r o c k. Kewl I had a something come up in my brain. My data is stored in a NAS or external drive. I can grab them and go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fugu Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 I've heard the samsung S7 works even while pouring champagne on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbass Posted June 13, 2016 Author Share Posted June 13, 2016 and no I will not shove a hard drive down my pants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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