The Difference Between Combination and Fingerprint Safes

Posted on 20 July 2009

Sentry Safe DA3930

Sentry Safe DA3930

It’s well known that having a security safe in your office or home greatly improves the security of your valuables and importnat information. Choosing from the variety of safes on the market, however, is not as clear-cut — and that’s why we’re here to give you some tips on choosing a great combination safe as compared to biometric and fingerprint safes.

The basic difference between a fingerprint or biometric safe and a combination safe is the way the safe is unlocked. A combination safe, whether electronic, digital, or analog, requires the operator to memorize a sequence of numbers. Fingerprint (biometric) safes are unlocked using digital fingerprint scanning technology, minimizing the amount of time and phone calls spent providing employees with the changing combination and forgotten combos.

A digital combination safe can store multiple number sequences for different operators of the safe, but most analog combination safes are devoid of this feature. A fingerprint safe works similarly to the digital combination safe — the master operator can add and remove access to the safe quickly and easily. In many situations, having an easy way to manage access to the safe is a priceless security feature — and a biometric safe provides exactly this.

The convenience and added security of fingerprint safes do not come with a premium, however — biometric and combination safes are often similarly priced. The Sentry DA3930 Fire and Water Protection Fingerprint safe, for example, comes out to about $400 with shipping from Officetronics. A similarly sized combination safe is about $50 less than this.

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