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		anarazel on Feb 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hard Drive Stats for 2019 I'd hope that their data is all encrypted at rest. Compared to the bandwidth of spinning disks, the cost of doing hardware assisted AES isn't big.

m4rtink on Feb 12, 2020 [–]

Yeah, I would expect any data reaching the drives to be encrypted by Backblaze, with the key newer reaching the disk.

You could even have keys per disk and wipe them when a disk fails.

Either way, you should be fine to RMA the drives as for an external observer without the keys they just contain random noise.

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