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SandForce SSD encryption - security and support

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Mar 15, 20262942 views
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I'm currently thinking about buying a ThinkPad X201 and equip it with a SSD drive. Now, to protect my data I always used Linux with LUKS full disk encryption on my laptops. However, as stated in another SuperUser post, this would disable the support for TRIM - so that doesn't seem to be a good idea…

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Fix for: SandForce SSD encryption - security and support

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Answering my own question, this is what I've found out after searching on the net for a couple of hours: The SandForce devices have AES encryption turned on by default, but there are issues with this (see below) If you zero out the drive using ATA S…

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