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by amenod 3345 days ago
NSA agrees with you, for one.
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throwa38282 3345 days ago
NSA is not the primary threat here. More conventional legal mechanisms are. Home serving is just as vulnerable to the NSA.
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thraway2016 3345 days ago
Conventional legal mechanisms against your home server cabinet can be handled via full disk encryption and a reed switch on your cabinet door connected to your power strip.
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tscs37 3345 days ago
Sounds fun until you have to open your cabinet door for legit reasons like swapping a faulty hard drive in your RAID array.
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lmm 3344 days ago
Huh? If you're going to swap a faulty hard drive you want to power off anyway.
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tscs37 3344 days ago
I hotswap drives all the time, it's not a problem and makes a harddrive swap a 30 second task instead of a 10 minute task and doesn't incur downtime either.
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lmm 3344 days ago
Most consumer hard drives (and indeed bays) are not designed for hotswapping and it can cause damage (though maybe modern build quality is good enough that you'd be lucky most of the time). "Downtime" on your home server in your closet is a minor inconvenience at worst.
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