How to encrypt second nvme with the same ID?

Hi, brand new NitroPad V56 with ubuntu 24.

The first nvme is encrypted well with my own passphrase at bootup.

The second nvme is untouched.

Is there a “Howto” to encrypt this second nvme with the same passphrase of the first nvme, so i only has to type this one time every bootup?

Regards, D.

Hello, the way I would do that is to set a RAID0 with your both drives so it’s seen as one and then it can be encrypted entirely with one passphrase.

RAID 0 is simple to setup but effectively doubles the risk of data loss if either NVMe drive fails. By using LVM instead, you can add both drives as physical volumes in a pool. you could limit each logical volume so that it is located only on a single NVMe, which reduces the risk if one NVMe would die (only the affected volumes are gone). But as backups should be done anyhow, one could also go with RAID 0 that can double the performance.

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