Dude just use a hammer
Comment on Do you encrypt your data drives?
d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
This shouldn’t even be a question lol. Even if you aren’t worried about theft, encryption has a nice bonus: you don’t have to worry about secure erasing your drives when you want to get rid of them. I mean, sure it’s not that big of a deal to wipe a drive, but sometimes you’re unable to do so - for instance, the drive could fail and you may not be able to do the wipe. So you end up getting rid of the drive as-is, but an opportunist could get a hold of that drive and attempt to repair it and recover your data. Or maybe the drive fails, but it’s still under warranty and you want to RMA it - with encryption on, you don’t have to worry about some random accessing your data.
trolololol@lemmy.world 6 months ago
kabi@lemm.ee 6 months ago
If you’re getting rid of a (rusty) drive and it leaves your hands with the cool magnets and shiny frisbees still inside, you’re doing something wrong.