[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sending our zpool offsite using encrypted USB HDDs

[Nick Tan]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
<openindiana at nedharvey.com> wrote:
>> From: Gary [mailto:gdriggs at gmail.com]
>>
>> Have you priced out self-encrypting aka hardware-based encrpytion drives?
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-based_full_disk_encryption
>
> To my knowledge, all hard-ware based self-encrypting drives require a BIOS / UEFI password be typed in when the drive is connected to the computer.  This is annoying but sometimes useful for drives that are present at boot...  But I'm not aware of any USB or eSATA enclosures that support this.
>

We use lenovo USB2 and eSATA encrypting hard drives at work - they
have a keypad on them and will only mount the drive when the correct
PIN is entered.  We use them with linux and windows and they are very
good.