Encrypting Your Data Hoard: LUKS vs ZFS Native Encryption vs VeraCrypt
Most data hoarding advice is about keeping data alive: redundancy, checksums, off-site copies. Almost none of it is about keeping that data private if a drive leaves your control. And drives leave your control more often than people think - a failed disk goes back to the manufacturer under warranty, a drive gets sold or handed off once you upgrade capacity, a laptop or external drive gets lost or stolen. If none of that data was encrypted, every one of those events is a potential data breach, not just an inconvenience. ...