stereobastler

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  1. Not really, sorry to disappoint. There was a distinct lack of both technical information and interest from the community, so I did not investigate further. Also, it is not really a threat scenario for me since my server is located at home. I find the idea of SED drives quite charming, since you get the benefits of encryption without the performance loss that comes along with encrypting your array, so if you find a solution please do let me know. I cannot test this myself at the moment, since I have exactly 2 SED drives which are my data and parity drive. Andreas
  2. Yes and no. The data that is physically stored on the platter is encrypted transparently with the key that was flashed at the factory. When you read it back, the drive decrypts it on the fly. This is what allows you to „wipe“ the drive instantly during decommissioning - change the key and the encrypted data becomes a garbled mess. what is not active by default is that you need to enter a password during boot which unlocks the key, which in turn allows to access the data. here be dragons: this does NOT protect your drive while the pc is in standby, it only helps when power is physically removed from the drive (e.g. somebody disconnects and steals your drive). PS: if my info helped you, please leave a thanks by clicking the heart in the bottom right corner so I can track how many people have similar problems.
  3. The normal drive functionality works fine out of the box with seagate EXOS X16 16TB SATA SED drives. I did not test the key management and unlock-on-boot since I only really care about the quick erase functionality when decommissioning the drives. Hope that helps.
  4. Hi all, I am in the process of buying new hard drives for my Unraid system. I had problems with SAS drives (no spin down) and thus would like to switch to SATA. I was thinking about using the Seagate Exos X16 16TB drives. At the moment, the SATA models with SED (self-encryption) are much cheaper than without the feature, so I was thinking to just use the "transparent SED" mode without BIOS key management, and basically ignore the encryption happening on the disk. Are there any resources I can read, any experiences with SED in Unraid? I found this thread, but it is from 2017: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/54440-sed-disks-in-array/ Thanks in advance, BR Andreas
  5. I love that it supported all my hardware out of the box, especially my 10G network card. I would like to see alternative update servers for customers with connection problems to AWS (especially customers of the German ISP Deutsche Telekom).