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Trenton Systems Blog
Company blog · trentonsystems.com/bloghardwaresystems
Trenton Systems Blog is the company blog at trentonsystems.com, writing about hardware and systems. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's post on self-encrypting drives as a reference for how SSD and drive firmware handle encryption keys, and link a product page as an example of 2U rugged blade servers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
4U blade enclosures are indeed more common, but 2U enclosures absolutely are such a thing. One example: https://www.trentonsystems.com/products/rugged-blade-servers...
Comment linking /products/rugged-blade-servers/2u-rugged-blade-servers
on “Moving my PC into my rack in a 2U case”Submitted The Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA): What Is It? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe drive's firmware could be preventing that from happening: https://www.trentonsystems.com/blog/self-encrypting-drives Although I don't think they have the auto-destruct feature. But with 200M+ at stake, I'd put out a bounty for someone to reverse engineer the firmware. Edit: sibling commenter says it's IronKey, reading about it, reverse engineering won't be that trivial...
Comment linking /blog/self-encrypting-drives
on “Man has two more chances before $232M in Bitcoin is lost forever”Submitted PCIe Backplanes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThen again, nowadays, what you read from /dev/sdd1 isn't necessarily the 1's and 0's stored on the memory cells, because many SSDs have encryption, and even if you haven't enabled the protection, there's still en/decryption keys on the controller. https://www.trentonsystems.com/blog/self-encrypting-drives
Comment linking /blog/self-encrypting-drives
on “A disk is a bunch of bits”