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Do you encrypt your data drives? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Fellow selfhoster, do you encrypt your drives where you put data to avoid privacy problems in case of theft? If yes, how? How much does that impact performances? I selfhost (amongst other services) NextCloud where I keep my pictures, medical staff, ...in short, private stuff and I know that it's pretty difficult that a thief would steal my server, buuut, you never know! 🤷🏻‍♂️

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You don't have sensitive data? Would you mind expanding on that a bit for me? Just curious how you like, live, and stuff.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Plex data, pi hole, and home assistant don't contain anything meaningful. No credentials are stored in a form that can be reused.

The most sensitive is immich, which I'm more concerned about backups than I am someone might steal my nudes. Their online anyway.

Email is hosted off-site and I still have physical files for a lot of my documents. If someone stole hdds out of my server, they'd get a lot of Linux isos, pictures of cars, porn, tons of versioned software and games installers, etc.

Maybe my definition of sensitive is different than yours though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprized as well, like I guess I would understand if it's a no log DNS server but, what else wouldn't have sensitive information.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

My Music, Movies and Shows, I dont consider them private/sensitive, as they aren't illegal to possess or even download in my country. I would even donate my filled but corrupted drive to a repair guy, he can have the media if he can repair it.