Drive Encryption

[Morne]

Hi Guys been using Unraid for many Years but i need to ask if nobody have asked.

Please ad drive encryption to the list.

 

I have 6 drives but non is encrypted and taking or moving all the data of the drive just to encrypt the drives well that will take forever.

would be nice to have a plugin or native support to get the drive encrypted 

 

Thanks.

[JorgeB]

Drive encryption has been available for a long time, since v6.4 IIRC.

[Morne]

Thanks for the reply.

But if i need do enable the drive encryption you need to moved data of the drive.

 

Or am i incorrect.

 

[JorgeB]

Yes, sorry, missed that part, current encryption implementation requires re-formatting the device.

[itimpi]

50 minutes ago, Morne said:

But if i need do enable the drive encryption you need to moved data of the drive.

True.  However I do not think there are any plans to implement ‘in-place’ encryption (or even if it is technically possible)

[-Daedalus]

If I remember right, Tom had mentioned looking into it, around the time of release originally. Haven't heard anything about it since though.

[Morne]

It would be nice . I can encrypt my Windows hard drive with data on , but i do understand that Unraid is not Windows.

[JonathanM]

6 minutes ago, Morne said:

It would be nice . I can encrypt my Windows hard drive with data on , but i do understand that Unraid is not Windows.

Different type of encryption. Windows does file by file, you can choose to encrypt just one file. Unraid (linux LUKS) encrypts the whole drive. Not possible to do in place encryption without significant risk to all the data on the drive. https://securedmind.com/post/how-to-encrypt-a-disk-in-place-with-luks/