On 2/21/25 09:48, Dan Purgert wrote:
On Feb 21, 2025, gene heskett wrote:
On 2/21/25 07:11, Dan Purgert wrote:
On Feb 21, 2025, Frank Guthausen wrote:
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:07:10 -0500
gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
my home net, is behind dd-wrt, in plain text. on an address block
that does not get thru a router. And in 30 years I have not been
touched.
LUKS addresses a completely different attack vector than network
intrusion. As long as the LUKS device is decrypted on a running
machine it is not much of a help. LUKS protects data during the
encrypted state, e.g. when a stolen laptop was in shutdown state
at that time, and it helps to protect data when disks are up to
renewal and someone else has got access to the older disks later.
Without LUKS the disk erasing process needs time and might well
be quiet expensive.
Yes and no with the erasure thing -- a handful of SSD options nowadays
do onboard / integral encryption, so "erasing" the drive is essentially
just "deleting the secret key"
But then again, SSDs are quite expensive per TiB if you're talking about
a storage array
So are spinning rust when it only lasts 2 weeks. Seacrate has sold me the
Good thing "2 weeks" is well within a warranty period. Unless, of
course, that you opted to purchase old drives from somewhere.
What would I do with 2 more identical drives doomed to go away as soon
as the helium leaves? I was upset and didn't bother trying to warranty
them. It just served the purpose of prodding me into converting 95% of
my systems here to SSD's, faster and many times more dependable although
I do have one .5T 870 samsung out of around 8 that is not too healthy,
around 5% of it has disappeared but it just keeps on working. And 2,
250G drives in my cnc machinery that have well over 100k spinning hours
on them. Sweet spot for drive life I guess.
Thanks Dan
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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