Looks like Ente supports end to end encryption and Immich doesn’t.
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potustheplant@feddit.nl 4 weeks agoAny reason to pick this over Immich?
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
potustheplant@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Does that matter if you’re self hosting and not exposing it to the internet?
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
That entirely depends on what your threat model is. You may not get any value out of that feature, but others may want it. One reason may be ease of storage drive disposal upon drive failure; i.e., if your drive is unencrypted and has your personal photos on it and it fails, the data is still recoverable with no easy way for you to destroy the data. If it was encrypted at rest, you wouldn’t have to worry about it because you would only have to rotate the encryption key.
potustheplant@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
If you’re using a raidz array (which you should) the data would be irrecoverable anyways when you dispose of a single drive, wouldn’t it? Also, why would you throw away a server drive that still works?
I’ve never used Immich so I can’t speak for or against it. When I started down the selfhosting road, I found Ente first, that’s all.
potustheplant@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
That’s a bit odd considering how much more popular Immich is, but ok.