-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 17.08.2016 04:45, neilhard...@gmail.com wrote: > The Qubes website recommends SSD drives. > > Is there any particular reason..? > > Does Qubes use read/write to the hard drive any more than Windows... to the > point where it's going to cause drive failure a lot earlier..? > > Or is it simply a speed thing..? > > Or what.? >
Hi I am pretty sure the main reason is speed. Also depending on your setup (snapshots/btrfs) there might be alot of random read operations. But when you look at the recently published paper [DiskFiltration: Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers via Covert Hard Drive Noise][1] there might also be another good reason to use SSDs ;) [1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.03431v1.pdf - -- Live long and prosper Robin `ypid` Schneider -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXtBaXAAoJEIb9mAu/GkD4ZlcQANTjVBR2MbYidSzgOv4Di/GZ EQZnqUwFhGtbvoZ623z7ZDxl8Vn4BpohAx4kUU/stmA0nm7nJcd3y8/j43quUUYy L4jJQmVk6pd6p1i1I9N24Ra0TkteQHPn0bJ7r+U5p8xVPYdDz0iseQMCHHLKSPc5 L8/VoMIqYFFcmDccbu7oHKaCU3nqCTpYsO89bu0RjhLlAE2+EiXc3c8jK/R0+xuC os7OV05ltMjhS1LH3SRgYWHPvvihDr9kcR+REhKVJ0NNmAFnsevZ0zgsPTGHqJrs JZ7Rm4s4782Q80sTDOeMqQZfU2RbWn8Hm0+GEVio4XFbA882AW1cpJd7juOus3M6 m34LHl5s+2E8fWttbqNjlXCsI7gU0MfB1rwVNCK2MVObpjgAZyudJ+ArI9THGMXz eAwQ6v7scHuBjI+ufrbNnGdtnRNkEhCjYKXCyr+NTWj+nCM3+xgBmQscAg+50eU8 Wl5IueIwkawzUoNCs+1oTOZyyW+SRPZhrfL8Jt9ftw7I5MqneobceH8k/YX9kYnp HLmSQZ+170ZoW7LVvSnyiKUgYnhWI5JdKPlyX1CiOLVcP3gPCYtJ6kMKPOW+fhZl RCh3uMzDr1nb7TCN2dOJ33gt9df7M1eraEjYQztuzOi9BfSq0rhx701hhjS9md7c JKPUwVrj+YGlhJ/kvT5K =3I7z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/87eef10e-4735-a02d-99b2-4b1388a29842%40riseup.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
