Bypassing Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) in Enterprise Environments

[@j.b.708]

this is a good explanation of SEDs in general. thanks for this!
in the SAN/NAS deployment, there's probably not going to be a sneaky way to get a drive out without losing power, but interesting about laptops for sure.

[@Physics072]

Seems SED Drives would have to be slow vs the standard version of the same drive. Encryption is never FREE. Yet I don't see any benchmarks of SED for non.

[@WizardNumberNext]

most enterprise drives are using SED, but it is not OPAL
I have a lot of SED SAS drives and none is OPAL compliant

[@ezekieloz]

bine prezentat :)

[@meh11235]

So, don't slow the system by activating encryption... it's only slowing down the user

[@WizardNumberNext]

you cannot do sleep with TCG SED OPAL period

[@anthonymarshall4689]

Im confused

[@vandorhangya]

you should be