Yeah, it's true - same for anyone. The main benefit of encrypting the drives (indeed, the only reason I was willing to do the tradeoff for something which is m

Yeah, it's true - same for anyone. The main benefit of encrypting the drives (indeed, the only reason I was willing to do the tradeoff for something which is mostly theatre) is that we can RMA failed drives and discard old drives with no risk to customer data. That alone is worth paying the slight overhead on modern CPUs for full disk encryption of all user-data partitions (the OS isn't encrypted - it's Debian with some open source packages on it, and we throw it away anytime - http://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/07/automated-installation/ http://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/07/automated-installation/)