AES 256-bit Self-Encrypting Drives - All you Need to Know as Fast As Possible

[@TimJSwan]

I think I have a greater fear of forgetting my password instead of someone else finding it.

[@jamesedwards3923]

Encrypted password managers solve this issue. I personally recommend KeePass or Password Safe.

[@LetsGoBowlingNiko]

I just use my notebook to write my passwords so I don't forget them. I doubt anyone of my family members would peek into my passwords.

[@LordCyler]

@@jamesedwards3923 Except most people use less secure passwords on their managers, and then all your other passwords are only as secure as that one weaker password.

[@casparolesen]

I would love to see a Techquickie covering the different motherboard sizes (e-ATX, ATX, mATX, mini-ITX etc.) - pros and cons over each other. I think many people would be interested in that subject :-)

[@pichass9337]

it really isn't. Some keys are missing, get the one you want

[@IWatchYouTubez]

Actually you can't reformat or do anything with the drive, the pass is required to access the drive as it's stored inside a chip inside the drive, so you'll still be prompted to enter a pass to reformat it (when you connect the drive)

[@jamesedwards3923]

Dude, I think you need to make an updated video. Many popular SSDs intern and external drives have critical flaws. Did not mention the WD Passport drives with it's flaws. I own one by the way.

[@Z3R0F4K3]

my right ear really appreaciates that it can now also hear what my left ear could hear before :D thanks linus, those mistakes happen

[@shreysagar7409]

I watch all KZbin videos on 144p, therefore I never noticed before that Linus wears earrings.

[@NFtheend]

he is gay thats why

[@gondo2k2]

+Ethan A he's not gay bro. he's married and has a kid

[@Sh0cKwavE__]

Shrey Sagar dude how do you do that? I can't stand anything under 480p

[@MrVauxs]

says a guy watching Linus making computers worth a "small" loan of a million dollars OFC HE IS AT 144P I CAN'T EVEN PLAY MINECRAFT ON MY COMPUTER

[@adrianTNT]

wow, he does wear earrings, I switched it back to 144p !

[@Glorfman]

I'd like to see a TQ on the different kinds of video output, like HDMI, DVI, etc. and the pros and cons of each.

[@gustav901]

However the encryption key is stored on the device by default which enables special made software to find the key and just decrypt the whole drive. You can store it on another device such as a USB thumb drive, but then you need to have that USB connected every time you try to access the drive.

[@boynextdoor1]

the ending was amazing

[@colin8696908]

This is left out but the reason you would use a self encrypting drive it's much faster then using something like true crypt, to encrypt your files. This is due to the fact that it's built into the physical machine.

[@jamesedwards3923]

Why has he not made an updated version of this video? Seriously, why has he not done this yet?

[@swordkirby45]

Ooh! Ooh! You should totally do a quickie on watercooling GPUS!

[@doomtomb3]

I would like to see a tech quickie on Vince's Slap Chop product. Even if it's a quickie, wrap that stickie.

[@joshtunney6674]

This episode of tech quickie must have been filmed before Linus gained the power to hold the ssd above his palm in mid air.

[@TheOriginalNCDV]

This video is wrong, at least for Samsung self-encrypting SSD drives. The data on the drive is ALWAYS encrypted by an internal AES-256 key whether you set the HDD password or not. All the password does is allow the drive to access the key from its secure storage. This is why you can happily change (or even remove) the password without having to re-encrypt the entire drive - the key is not a function of the password. When you sell or dispose of the drive, you simply force the drive to change the key which renders the existing data useless.

[@MarioDragon]

I think the password suggestion is wrong since a comic told me using 4 random words put together is more secure than a hard to remember l33t chat password. (xkcd c0m/936/)

[@nsg619]

Holy crap dude; how many channels do you have? I'm having to subscribe to them all!

[@Bachir677]

You learn a valuable lesson: Don't forget important stuff!

[@Bignona]

That would be a great topic.

[@zaxmazr]

Video quality needs to be looked at. Diesel ever heard of feathering!

[@impermanenthuman8427]

I spent the extra money and bought windows 10 pro (instead Home edition) purely because it has Bitlocker, then I found out I don’t have a TPM on my laptop so I can’t use it anyway, then after loading on lots of data onto my Samsung 850 pro, I find that the ssd itself has hardware level encryption which when combine with VeraCrypt is the best option of all, but the drive gets wiped when it’s enabled...why the hell isnt the encryption process default on the damn Samsung ssd! Is it supposed to be a secret or something...😤 the engineering dept needs to communicate with the marketing debt

[@jeditstudios]

Who’s this guy, seems familiar…

[@overlordnicksclips]

must we argue about semantics it might not technically be a hard disc drive, but many people still call their main drive a harddrive, regardless about how it's made

[@ristasc3602]

If you assume: Every person on the planet owns 10 computers. There are about 7 billion people on the planet. Each of these computers can test about1 billion key combinations per second. On average, you can crack the key after testing 50% of the possibilities. Then the earth's population can crack one encryption key in 77,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years!

[@Blox117]

you can get lucky and get it on the first try too.

[@cinmhmd894]

Blox117 nobody will start guesing passwords containin more than 10 symbols.

[@851995STARGATE]

It helps if you know the general context or at least one to three letters or numbers of the password lol

[@YourGamingXP]

Blox117 aaaaaaa... damnit shit fuck!

[@Blox117]

Fireworrks that was my old password, try again!

[@TetraSky]

But does it means you have to enter the password every time you boot? And does it even protect your data from someone who hack in your PC? Personally I encrypted my drives using Bitlocker, on Windows 7 Ultimate, according to the specs it uses by default AES 128 but is configurable to 256. Since the decrypt key is on a USB key I don't have to remember the massively long password and as long as no one steal my USB drive(which is on my keychain, alway on me) no one should have access to my data.

[@rockpig57]

Could you do a Fast as Possible on motherboards in general, and everything you need to consider when buying a motherboard for your system. Thanks

[@njdss4]

Aren't there articles saying that the best password these days is actually just a long phrase? It's easier to remember and doesn't require special characters or numbers.

[@djaxup]

you have found your personal lifetime quest ^^

[@elenna_alexia]

Not everyone even uses encryption and for those who do, it's usually just easier to get hold of the password. That is and always will be the weak spot in this type of encryption. Brute force takes lots of computing power and time, so that's usually just a waste of resources and there is an easier way. You will never get 100% safety, but the encryption is pretty good, you'll just have to keep your password safe and your computer free from keyloggers.

[@LegitLiMELiGHT]

Everying thing you need to know about mouse surfaces? and mouse dpi, weight possing rate?

[@asapshazzy]

It's a form factor. It basically a smaller motherboard with maybe fewer ports, slots, what have you

[@heynando]

i'm almost sure you can force a format the device but of course all the data will be gone, thus the drive would still be usable just the way it was.

[@Fr0sTy327]

I'd like to see a video covering how efficient top of the line SSD's preform in a RAID 0 configuration.

[@guiazk]

suggestion: network switches - as fast as possible!

[@randyzhu9705]

I encrypt my password. The password (Scrambled): 1234

[@bautrey]

Good facts. Could you possibly cover maybe networking encryption like WPA2, or network security.

[@TheGhostGhillie]

yes you can it sett op so you cant read the stuff on the hard drive or accsses the data on it but you can see the hard drive and reformat it. its made to protect your data from being stolen not be a brick if you forget the password.... so yes you can

[@kght222]

i use an old windows 98 key that i happen to have memorized for secure passwords. but for the most part i don't use anything that i am particularly worried about people getting into, so my normal passwords are pretty simple and would likely be easy to crack. but i think a 25 character password would be pretty difficult to crack even though it doesn't contain any special characters. although a cool thing you can do is add an extended ascii char to your password like ž or •. most don't know how.

[@jonk2140]

Great video!

[@youngyongyung]

Yeah.. what an incredible realization..

[@tomgdownhill]

i want they old out-tro back :P or just a new one from time to time. other wise a cool vid of som cool tech :D

[@Chooseyouruniquehandlebyaddin]

can i take the nand flash and put iton another drive of the same make and model?

[@chronofusion]

Ok. weird.Why am I getting this video notification again? I saw this late last night and had already moved it into one of my email folders

[@BundD9]

Can some remove the NAND flash chips an place them on another PCB to retrieve data?

[@rnci]

Isn't the bios on a separate chip? would someone with the proper equipment be able to take out the chip or the memory off the SSD and installing it on another SSD be able to access it? Theoretically of course as I don't think there is anyone who could do it, maybe the guys who built the SSD.

[@isaackarjala7916]

how to make a password that is secure and suitable easy to remember: generate a cryptographically random 3-10 letter string and use it to create backronym. worst case scenario you have 26 to the 3rd-10th power, but realistically it's unbreakable..... and defeat password reuse with an encrypted password database.

[@RichoV2]

So even if you read the data from the flash chips themselves its not going to make any sense yeah?

[@dylan522p]

can you wipe a drive completely and start using it again if you lose the password.

[@JayMannStuff]

How about SSD Caching, RAM Caching, and RAM Disk information as quick as possible? I wrote an article about those topics, recently, and how it's possible to achieve very high IOPS using those technologies.

[@deepeyes001]

What will happen if the other person takes my drive to a different OS ? would the encryption still work or is there a way to bypass it ?

[@XHyperxNovaX]

marketing hype a supercomputer taking millions of years to crack is assuming it uses every ASCII character to date

[@kristianvergard6434]

You're the man dude!

[@VampiresDarkCreed]

Don't you just miss that graphics juggle at the end?

[@Jaym1na7or]

What happened at 0:14 at the bottom-right.

[@chemputer]

You can still format it. You just cant get the data because its encrypted and without the password from a low level it will literally look like random data.

[@WhiskeyOnFire]

But the security is on BIOS level. That should mean that if the drive is hooked up to the computer you can't gain access to the drive no metter what. Even to format it.

[@AwayToHit]

that outro should be with a titan ;)

[@bocahsidan2051]

yeeeyy!! another episode of AFAP... :D

[@tobsmonster2]

Need something small? - get itx/atx Size not an issue? - get e-atx/atx Not much else to say is there?

[@bluntforce]

anyone know how to enable the encryption on a 840 pro with a maximus v extreme mobo?

[@iyqwerty]

Thank youuu

[@StoneRandom]

linus, i would love to see you try to balance a titan

[@ConcreteGameing]

are u just teasing us with that graphics card at the end?

[@PRECISYS]

Suit and sandals would be hilarious

[@hanakoikezawa1830]

Am I the only one that cries quietly to themselves at that outro ?

[@mark29072907]

lets see you trying to balance a GTX Titan or one of those really expensive workstation cards.

[@Krrish85]

If you use this do you need to enter the password everytime you boot up at bios level?

[@RMarsupial]

I hear mouses for the computer kind. For the animal it's always mice but for the computer both are used.

[@cookiechriss1994]

The page you are looking for cannot be found.Thats what you get when going to your link in the video

[@TeParamount]

where is the monitor techquickie

[@orangecreeperx6980]

Linus was so young

[@UNSCForums]

VeraCrypt took TrueCrypt's place

[@bigdipper1454]

TrueCrypt development is still live. It was just privatized now and only available to certain types of customers.

[@jamesedwards3923]

As of 2019, you are better off using TrueCrypt as opposed to hardware only encryption. Read the data yourself many manufactures did a poor job implementing hardware encryption. When the companies you brought your drives from tell you to use software encryption. You wasted money.

[@youngyongyung]

If you'd have a perfectly distributed 256-bit key all the energy in the universe wouldn't be sufficient to brute-force it, as Schneier famously demonstrated. ;-)

[@Cheezsoup]

Just a heads up, the plural of mouse is mice not mouses.

[@SpawnKill3rz]

And that's perfect for me !!! (i use a Yubikey to enter the random password everytime so i don't even have the password if someones wants to stole/Force some info on me !!)

[@thepatrioticaudiophile]

How do these compare to Intel SSDs? I've heard that they have data encryption but not sure how many bits.

[@Cheezsoup]

I can't argue with what you hear, but I have never heard the word mouses (well I have as a verb but not as a plural noun).

[@thisisrudra]

What about li-ion batteries

[@inuysha360]

Sweet =) thanks a lot!

[@shiptia]

What happens if you forget your password?

[@me-jv8ji]

Dang 7 years ago

[@PhilDaw]

With this technology Skyfall would have finished before it'd even started

[@naamloos1337]

but.. will it blend?

[@88119966]

is it possible to put Self-Encrypting Drives in a raid?

[@reubenvm]

If you play Call of Duty on a PC, then you have issues. He already has a lot of CPU cooler videos on his LinusTechTips channel.

[@EmpoweredVizons]

i wanna see an esata video. information online is scarce

[@TheWhiteWolfFang]

The SSD would come unscathed from that. You need something on a bigger scale.

[@GamersTrue]

I GOT MY INTEL BEANIE TODAY :))

[@HKFLX4656]

copy and paste in the forum.

[@KevRunsOnDunkin]

Hi Linus. Can you do a tech quickie on mouses(computer peripheral). :)

[@Chenty91]

Use the forum

[@danielj7013]

This will likely be taken the wrong way, but I'm curious if lets say the FBI would be able to get in somehow? Could Samsung for example have a way into their drives if someone forced them? Or is it secure from EVERYONE as long as the password is good? Someone please enlighten me!

[@OrbofShingeki]

why because u cant buy one?

[@travismcshane5679]

We'll have to go further...

[@halo3sn1p3r]

IT would take the quantum computer 20 seconds to get that encrypted password.

[@Linkolnverse]

Well 10 years ago and AES 256 seems to still be the best... ok

[@HekiMaggyc]

WIll the police be able to get to these ecrypted files easly?

[@omegapixelled]

What about rainbow tables?

[@0M9H4X_Neckbeard]

OmegaPlasm that's exactly what he talked about, an average length password would take thousands of terabytes of rainbow tables and millions of years to check through all the rainbow tables

[@smotonaga]

Can you do this if the SSDs are in Raid 0?

[@eW0LF]

Yes,it is possible-but your RAID controller must support that sort of drives.

[@Fr0sTy327]

Yeah, you can format the drive even if you lost the password.