Cupcake
Dabbler
- Joined
- Jan 1, 2014
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- 42
Hi guys
I'm still not using my freenas in a productive way as I'm not 100% sure how to set it up. Especially the encryption. As a paranoid crypto freak, I'm all in favour of total drive encryption. I'm wondering now if there are any downsides besides a performance drop (I can handle that). Or asked differently: Is an encrypted pool more likely to fail completely than a non-encpryted pool? (In case of broken drives, sudden powerloss, defective RAM, aged SATA cables etc.)
So far I've come up with the following list of Pros and Cons:
Pro (for the sake of completeness):
Please feel free to add your items to the list above, no matter what their origin is.
I'm still not using my freenas in a productive way as I'm not 100% sure how to set it up. Especially the encryption. As a paranoid crypto freak, I'm all in favour of total drive encryption. I'm wondering now if there are any downsides besides a performance drop (I can handle that). Or asked differently: Is an encrypted pool more likely to fail completely than a non-encpryted pool? (In case of broken drives, sudden powerloss, defective RAM, aged SATA cables etc.)
So far I've come up with the following list of Pros and Cons:
Pro (for the sake of completeness):
- Data still secure when drives are failing and removed/thrown away
- Data still secure when drives are stolen
- Decreased performance
- It's possible to lose the keys and therefore lose access to the otherwise intact pool
- It's easier to mess the pool up via gui when it's encrypted
- Possibly useless if only one (windows-)user does not have a desktop password and znas volumes are (CIFS-)mounted automatically.
Please feel free to add your items to the list above, no matter what their origin is.