I've used a safe deposit box for decades. As others have said, it's safer than anything you could have at home and the only way into it is with the simultaneous use of the bank master key and the owner's key. Otherwise, the lock has to be drilled out. I use it to store some original documents and valuables. All my documents have digital copies on my computer which also contains an inventory of the SDB contents. I have digitized almost everything and in the event of a fire the destruction of my computer and local backups would be devastating. I don't trust cloud storage of backups of my computers. This year alone I have received about a half dozen notices of my personal data being hacked at various major companies. I keep in the SDB redundant portable hard drives which have drive images of computers. The SDB drives are updated 2-3 times a year in-between which I have local backups. It's not a perfect system but it works for me.
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