We do it precisely for that reason. With old spinny drives, when one requires replacing, we used to have to have arrangements with vendors to keep the removed drives for shredding. With solid state storage, such an arrangement would be prohibitively expensive, but if its encrypted its no problem. Dana
On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:03:48 -0700, Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> wrote: >I've seen, the benefit of such encryption is the elimination of having >to zero out the data when shipping or replacing the box, and like you >say, does nothing to protect host access to the data. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN