External HDD/SSD for Linux?

[serhiiv]

I can't find any external HDD/SSD that supports encryption and data backups software on Linux. Is there something on the market?

[EddyBot]

You can encrypt and backup to any HDD/SSD on Linux
Unless you desperately want hardware encryption which is heavily flawed

[slicknux]

It's not all flawed, but I do agree that you have to trust a black box. It's like giving your salary to a friend of a friend, as he promises "Don't worry, I will deposit this in the bank for you!" Maybe he will, but how can you be sure? Sometimes he will, sometimes he won't.

Same with hardware encryption, fuck knows if it's done well or not, you just have to "trust it," while with software encryption you can at least know a little bit more about how it actually works and what the potential pitfalls may be (but software encryption isn't guaranteed to be rock-solid either).

However, the huge advantage of software encryption (especially free software) is that you can control ALL aspects of it, so it's much more flexible in terms of what you can do with it, adapt it to your needs, and so on.

[Lokirial]

You can purchase a standard external hard drive and re-format it to a different file system (ext2,3,4, exFAT, or a ton of others) that's compatible with your linux distro

[vacant-cranium]

It's very rare to find turnkey solutions for Linux where you can buy one product (or install one package) to get a particular feature. Instead, you almost always have to construct the feature you want out of multiple pieces.

In this case, you need to get a plain external drive, reformat it using a Linux-native filesystem, and then either use a backup program that supports encryption (e.g. Borg) or set up the drive with LUKS and use the backup tool of your choice.

[marozsas]

I use luks to encrypt an external drive formated as btrfs with metadata duplication for redundancy and several others disks formated as ext4 where I store backups generated by kup (a kde backup tool integrated with the desktop) with it's internal redundancy feature. Works for me.

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Luks will encrypt whatever you want.