-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 17.08.2016 09:47, Robin Schneider wrote: > 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
To bring the paper into perspective in regards to Qubes OS: Qubes OS does mitigate such an possibility already in that only the VM which controls a (S)ATA controller with an HDD attached could do that. So the impact of such a side-channel data leak should be pretty low for Qubes OS users when you keep that in mind. - -- Live long and prosper Robin `ypid` Schneider -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXtBi8AAoJEIb9mAu/GkD4s5kP/3Qh3fgGEcsi/Jrt8+74lDQN qQzJjWYusNfPy7jwR+P5R7zJjkPXkU79/P77d5kVGYN3UQULU0DpvsIgVw3V3fTI vQzbj33hlOXCsAjG6V/FfE1TL5QWKpZV7I2Q2oQoUfe8HNNhvmu/QoSNlDFRIoj3 KMso2iqQPCMLzjUESWM95i9HBmNfzfH4fZyDKF1stqTIm9POr3k26excqV+WfOoi RV7l7j87Ejn+yI/BhMGTI8VbdfV1e+8Yfl4tJmb06PfqKpDCn6gUi9Bp1+RcjGHC JYzdEQ0y2tbZMvh1V4JJpvhu4OTT35BK7ML2hTLxdd3HKkAaFfK0+fD++pPeQI28 Cg/mQeUhitUhu12m7Qi1ilGRSekGUknt4pmBWJaISWzKjUwld9sN0or01swq/1qs mQIQ0+BGMwMsuFb7356QMyNjSa60cu4i9ehxR905zH2ZDseiNVYBMpKZb7NvIOgM eKy7HES0MdxNzEPn+LgMa3mliR9t2qdQ0JDeJUfd8xLtfBVe+rcZx/GTRoP817RZ 71Q4n3/Jkh0NVwEiNilFvz4N4j94kW0Lpymv6Je4gBjzaXEcbTOrmG4R3RVK1btB N44SPjOVE8dhKIjQrv3nsEeCtjkVip79gecinjqeZ4wE8Xvo/Fi1ppYu0fQaSy3X pu93R1Z/aS/Rm1e9JOIQ =4iX2 -----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/20851865-c3e6-8056-7d99-3900428bf667%40riseup.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
