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Do you encrypt your drives? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nukem2k5 on 2024-07-26 02:09:41.

I see lots of people talk about RMA'ing drives but I would never do that with an unencrypted drive which may have held personal/sensitive data. So, from that standpoint, encryption makes sense.

I will be replacing my drives soon and wondering if I should encrypt the drives. I plan to use Win11 + snapRAID + Drivepool and probably NTFS + Bitlocker encryption. Would encryption reduce the likelihood of salvaging data on a failing drive? I suppose I'm wondering if the Bitlocker encryption depends on the drive in any way other than for reading the data (which is then decrypted by the OS).

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