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disk encryption

  1. zachw

    FileVault2 Corruption, External hard drive encrypted RAID no longer accepting password.

    I have an encrypted hardware RAID (OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual) that is MacOS (Journaled, Encrypted). This was created via Disk Utility a few years back. Disk Utility is saying the drive is in great shape. I am on BigSur 11.4 but have access to other macs with older OS'. Suddenly the external...
  2. chinchillas

    Interrupted encryption EHD

    Hi, I'm encrypting an EHD and need to interrupt it for a while to use the computer (running updated Big Sur) for other purposes. I have another Mac running Catalina. Is it possible to keep encrypting the drive with the second computer?
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    WD My Book Duo: Use device raid/encryption or Disk Utility?

    Hey there, just got a WD My Book Duo. I'd like to set it up as a RAID 1 and use encryption. Question is, do I use WD's utility to set up RAID and encryption? Or just use Disk Utility? The drive has Hardware Encryption, which I guess won't be used if I enable encryption via Disk Utility? Same...
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    Security of Apples disk encryption

    do you guys know how secure the non public disk encryption is Apple provides? I'm asking because I can read all over the net that you shouldn't use BitLocker on Windows because there is a "backdoor" in the encryption and if Microsoft is forced to, they give out the master key to decrypt. Is...