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If you control the drives, what will you do when old drives are cycled out? Will you just dump them in a bin for a letter agency to come and harvest my cat photos?

IMO, FDE is easy enough to do, even if the users never get to do it themselves. It sort of protects the users from leaking their data in the event that a company goes out of business or someone breaks in to steal hardware.



Usually overwrite the data a few times before decommissioning the server.

I’ll do some testing for the next server to see how much overhead FDE would add.




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