I'd imagine people that are paranoid about these things wouldn't be sending their unencrypted data to third parties anyway. So there's that. I'm a little skept

I'd imagine people that are paranoid about these things wouldn't be sending their unencrypted data to third parties anyway. So there's that. I'm a little skeptical to the claim that passthrough is so much faster than virtio-scsi or something similar. I'd imagine that the disk controllers and network would be the bottleneck. And as an added bonus you prevent people from doing shenanigans on disk firmware. We're talking about plate spinners here, latency isn't really what they're known for.