About this episode

Jim and Allan discuss new hard drive technology, storage and compute integration, and disk encryption setup on laptops.

Jim and Allan disagree on how new hard drive tech is likely to work, more on storage and compute in the same box, and how we set up disk encryption on laptops.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes OpenZFS Monitoring and Observability   News/discussion Western Digital doubles the performance of hard drives with dual-actuator High-Bandwidth, with path to 8X performance increase — Power-Optimized HDDs will reduce power by 20 percent   Free consulting We were asked about how we set up disk encryption on laptops. A quick-start guide to OpenZFS native encryption – Ars Technica Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation                     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

People in this episode

Hosts: Jim, Allan

Topics covered

• hard drive technology
• disk encryption
• OpenZFS
• storage solutions
• compute in the same box

Keywords

• hard drive
• disk encryption
• OpenZFS
• Western Digital
• performance increase

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Western Digital

Products: OpenZFS

Books & works: Ars Technica

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