file vault on mac mini with hdd and ssd

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file vault on mac mini with hdd and ssd

Hi all,

I have a mac mini late 2012 with a 26 Gb ssd and an 1Tb hdd

the ssd contains the OSX but some system data are routed in the HDD to free space in the ssd.

I would encrypt my data to avoid someone to access them moreover when I bring the mac mini to the Apple store for repairing. In this case I always create a new user account for the apple store repair.

Using file vault should encrypt both the drives or only the OSX one? time machine back up both... so??

I thank you all for the replies.

Alberto

Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), SSD 850 pro + 1 TB hitachi 7200 rpm

Posted on Feb 29, 2016 7:55 AM

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lllaass

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Feb 29, 2016 8:14 AM in response to Amalusal

File Vault only encrypts the startup disk. You have to separately encrypt data disks and time Machine backup

http://www.macworld.com/article/2880039/how-to-encrypt-your-mac-with-filevault-2 -and-why-you-absolutely-should.html

http://www.macissues.com/2014/11/07/how-to-encrypt-your-time-machine-backups/

Encrypt Files on Your Mac

The first link also discusses what happens wth other users accounts.

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Amalusal Author

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Feb 29, 2016 10:18 AM in response to lllaass

so I should initialize the hdd as OSX Journaled Codified and encrypt the OSX?

by this way I could save the hdd password in my encrypted keychains and only my account could connect to the hdd containing my data...

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