Data loss has scarred me in my childhood, so I don't want it to happen to you. Our family lost all our silent projector film home videos from the 70s and early 80s. My dad was catatonic. It is similar, maybe worse, I imagine, to losing your entire bitcoin stack in an unintentional boating accident.

Anyway, I don't think about it anymore but the anguish resurfaces every now and then. The latest was when I started to stumble upon providing data storage with ParmaDrive...

I think this thorn in my side is what has kept me obsessed in the last weeks. I'm in this deep and will do everything in my power to make your data private, and more important - to make sure you don't lose it.

I'll be writing a full guide soon on how to make the most out of your ParmanodL and ParmaDrive, but for now, I want to share this feature I'm pretty pleased about...

I've mentioned in a poorly visible tweet in the past that if you stored your data on a ParmaDrive at home, and a burglar took it, they'd normally have access to your images/videos.

The solution to this is have the entire drive encrypted with a strong password.

An important convenience is to have the drive unlock itself so you don't have to keep manually typing passwords at reboots.

Unfortunately, this automation means that if your computer/disks are stolen, the thieves have the same access to the automation and access to your drives.

Not

With

ParmaDrive!

Parman has got your back!

A ParmaDrive has a heartbeat to the Parmanent Server (still deciding on a name), and it knows if your computer has left the house, or if the machine has been switched off or offline for more than 10 minutes.

This triggers a disabling of the automation and boot-up drive decryption, making access to your drive impossible.

You of course have the password and can manually unlock your drives at any time, and you can also remotely disable the automated unlock yourself easily.

It's not available yet, but ParmaDrive users will be able to connect to the Server for encrypted backups (no, of course, I can't see the data, it'll be encrypted before I get it).

Should there be a disaster, you can download your data from the Server, or it can be shipped to you by courier - Yeah, the delivery can't be trusted, it's a single point of failure, so, of course, I'll have a copy during transit, confirm you received it, and only then delete the redundant copy (or keep it for continued backup).

Oh yeah, ParmaDrives are also full Bitcoin ParmanodL nodes.

ParmaDrive >> ParmanodL