What are the 5 most durable safes in the world?

What are the 5 most durable safes in the world?

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Ask anyone who runs a small business and they will tell you how important a top-notch security system is.

Up high will be a solid office safe.

Of course, some office safes are sturdier than others - and some are so impenetrable that they cost more to build than most businesses make in their lifetime.

Here are the security systems your average startup never can afford, but (hopefully) never will:

Fort Knox

It was a cliché for a reason.

It may have walls 4 feet thick, held together by 750 tons of reinforced steel, but breaking into Knox Fort is easy.

All you have to do is get past four fences, two of which are electrified and battle your way past a squad of armed guards.

Next, you will need to get through the maze of locked doors until you get there: a cellar door, weighing 22 tons.

Here, you'll need the vault association, and for that, you'll need to find every member of the Fort Knox staff, since each knows only a small portion of the association.

Nobody knows the whole thing.

Once inside, you will need to break into every smaller vault hidden within;

The problem is that at this point 30,000 soldiers from Fort Knox military camp will be waiting outside you.

So yeah, ironically aside, it's pretty safe.

Fort Knox diligently guarded 5,000 tons of gold bars;

It's not overkill… it's just right.

Of course, not all world-famous safes and vaults were built to look after gold bars.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

The Vault Global Svalbard seeds are buried 390 feet in rocks on the island of Spitsbergen, located just 620 miles from the North Pole and not receiving a lot of visitors.

In addition to its standard security features, it is protected by hundreds of miles of ocean and more than a few polar bears.

Importantly, this secure facility doesn't just try to protect the content from intruders;

Svalbard is buried so deep in rock that it can withstand a nuclear slaughter and any earthquake other than Richter.

Better yet, progressive-minded designers buried it at 430 meters above sea level, so that it would even be safe for decades to come no matter how rapidly the water level rose.

But what is so important that it can justify these extreme security measures?

The clue is in the title.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault contains over 500,000 plant species from around the world.

The idea is that we will be able to restore these plants if a global disaster wipes them out completely.

As we know, it may be the end of the world, but we should all be fine (relatively speaking) as we'll be able to restart our flora to continue growing later.

Of course, you won't get much for these seeds at a car showroom, but it's undeniably valuable.

Mount Cheyenne

The 25-ton doors on Mount Cheyenne can withstand a 30-megaton blast.

Like me, if you don't understand what that means, it means a nuclear bomb could detonate on the site nearly 1,500 times before it makes a dent.

According to its owner, the contents of the vault were so important that they needed to be buried 2,000 feet deep into the rock of the standard mountain.

So the big question is: what's the inside?

Everybody.

That air is considered the cleanest in the world as it is treated by a system that filters chemical, biological and nuclear components from the air.

Talk about the perks of the job.

The vault is home to the US Missile Warning Center and NORAD during the cold war and is currently maintained on a "warm wait" mode, by a team of staff, in case it is requested to return.

Iron mountain

Iron Mountain lies 200 meters below ground level in an old limestone quarry, containing 1.7 million square meters of extremely safe tunnel.

If you want to get inside, you'll have to sweetly talk to two waves of armed guards before you get past the front door.

Those allowed inside were inspected so thoroughly that no debris from their past was discarded.

This vault contains an invaluable inventory in an eclectic style that you won't be surprised to find the Ark of the Covenant hidden within.

Of course, you won't actually find the Lost Ark there - it's securely locked in Hangar 51.

But you'll find the Fragment of Flight 93, an original photo of Einstein blowing a raspberry, and the original patent for the bulb signed by Thomas Edison.

The identities of 95% of vault owners are confidential, but we know that the US government uses the facility, as well as the Smithsonian Institution and Warner Brothers.

Among the amenities housed is a data center called Room 48, which provides support for some of the largest US businesses.

Bahnhof, Stockholm

Previously this nuclear bunker was buried more than 100 meters below the streets of Stockholm, owned by Swedish internet provider Bahnhof.

The vault has 1.5 foot steel doors and its servers are generator controlled back-up that can run for weeks in the event of a power failure.

The data protected inside is so secure that the US government can't even get inside - they want it.

Bahnhof HQ in Stockholm is home to the servers of none other than Wikileaks.

That's right: Banhof has computers that Julian Assange and friends have filled up to provide classified information, news, and other media that the US Government and other major organizations don't want you to see.

Interestingly, these unbreakable safes are commonly known and you can learn a lot about them online.

Of course, it helps when you have an armed guard to look after your valuables.

When you don't, you have to keep what you have to yourself.

One of the best forms of security is keeping secrets.

If the thieves don't know what you have, they won't know what to do to get started.

Which safe do you think is the most impregnable - and if you own one of these vaults, what do you keep inside?