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Comment author: Nornagest 23 January 2015 12:53:07AM 1 point [-]

But then if an enclosure fails you just get another one and no data is lost or needs to be recovered from backups.

Unless the manufacturer in their infinite wisdom has enabled hardware encryption with the keys stored in the backplane.

Comment author: Lumifer 23 January 2015 02:04:32AM *  1 point [-]

Ah. Well...

-- Doctor, it hurts when I do this.

-- Don't do this, then.

Comment author: gjm 23 January 2015 10:30:45AM 1 point [-]

The trouble is that it's the manufacturer that does it, and the user who gets hurt.

Comment author: Lumifer 23 January 2015 03:37:35PM -2 points [-]

It's up to the user not to buy broken hardware :-P

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