Another question!
Is it possible to make an external hard drive WORM? (Write once read many)

If so, please tell!?
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 12:43, 9 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

fucknose
I wouldn't tell you anyway cuntybollocks!
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 12:52, Reply)

Build an external caddy
That contained a hardware write-blocker. Write what you want to the drive, then put the drive in the caddy.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 12:53, Reply)

Hmm...
Are you irritated I've revealed who you are?
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 12:53, Reply)

i'd imagine not
if it is, it's most likely complicated.


and why would your want a WORM HD?
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 12:58, Reply)

Yes
I believe it's called 'Blu Ray'.

Is everything at your company so complicated? ;-)
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 12:59, Reply)

Unfortunately...
I suggested a DVD, doesn't seem to be good enough.

I think my boss likes to be 'oh, look at how good we are'

Twat.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 13:04, Reply)

I imagine you're doing backups or long term archive of data
Try either BoxBackup or Duplicity.

Both of these encrypt on the source machine, copy just the changes to the backup server.

If the backup machine gets stolen, no worries - it's all encrypted.

Boxbackup I find awkward to set up and logging is shocking. All uses SSL certs. It does, however, keep an unspecified amount of 'old data', which it starts deleting when it runs out of space.

Duplicity works by public key encryption of diff'd tar archives, copied to the backup server. Very easy to set up and manage.

Take it one step further and sign the archives, then noone can add to them without breaking the seal.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 13:16, Reply)

My name is Spike and I drink too much
I may or may not also do stuff. i like to do stuff and I like to drink.

Agnostic sometimes comes drinking with me but he can't take his ale that well and ends up squiffy on a small amount. He likes to have his hair ruffled but displays a physical aversion to this which I suspect is male bravado.

I eat alot of meat, chicken in particular. I quite like chicken. I eat alot of fruit to counteract the meaty badness and to make sure I stay fit and healthy.

I have a teddybear called Peanut Butter. My mum made hm for me when I was little.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 14:37, Reply)

Technically maybe
I guess you could remove pin23 from the hard drive's ribbon cable connector- that's the only pin that's dedicated to "write" operations and would physically stop the "write" commands getting to your HDD while allowing the "read" operations.
pinouts.ws/ata-ide-pinout.html

It's nothing that someone with a careful hand and good soldering iron couldn't get around, so don't rely on it for a court case or anything. But for data storage I think it should do.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 15:08, Reply)