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Well it all depends on how much writing one does. OP estimates they have 1 year before they use too much of their drive’s endurance. Be aware that on-disk hard
by amarshall 5y ago
Well it all depends on how much writing one does. OP estimates they have 1 year before they use too much of their drive’s endurance.
Be aware that on-disk hardware encryption should generally not be trusted. It is not auditable or trivially verifiable. Some years back there were some revelations that some drive firmware encryption was woefully deficient. So much so that whereas Windows previously would treat on-disk encryption as sufficient, Microsoft stopped relying on it entirely.
- _0w8t 5y agoI am aware of this. Plus there are constant power attacks when one disconnects the disk while the system is suspended when the key is unlocked on the disk. But this is a development machine and I figured out that surprisingly non-trivial overhead of LUKS encryption in Linux is not worth it. On the plus side wake up from hibernation is very fast and to mitigate the risk of the above I configured the laptop to hibernate shortly after suspend.