That’s kinda my issue as well. I have a core 24 port L3 switch that’s multigig POE and a 3 disk NAS.

The NAS I could technically downsize with a little bit of tinkering and money.

The switch will be hard to miniaturize.

Thankfully my router is already 1/2U and 1/2 width so that’s easy to migrate.

I understand what you mean. The way I did it was a full disk encryption as an “external drive” so the whole disk was encrypted

No, that’s absolutely true. Dynamic loads will need to be accounted for in real world examples.

Consider a dam that is 10m tall

Then consider the height of water behind that dam is 5m tall.

Does the dam need to be built stronger if the water behind it is 1 km long?

How about only 500m?

How about 1m?

The answer is, it doesn’t matter. Water exerts pressure equally regardless of how much water is behind it.

Therefore a graduated cylinder that is 10m tall needs to resist the same amount of force as a dam 10m tall regardless of how much water is behind the dam. Even a thin sliver of water 1mm thick and 5m tall has the same force as a 5m lake behind the dam.

Incompressible fluids are pretty insane

Can you elaborate?

When I sold my drives, I used veracrypt with a 128 character password and PIM of 800+.

Isn’t that the same thing as shredding?

IP address and Domain Names

Just run OM3 and you’ll be set for 100gbe!