Re: SATA Raid0 and loop-aes

[Florian Reitmeir <florian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Fre, 03 Feb 2006, Peter_22@xxxxxx wrote:

> I would like to kindly ask if the following harddrives are ok to built a
> raid0 and then encrypt it with loop-aes. As drives I consider these two as a
> good choice:
> 1. Maxtor
> model: 7V300F0
> size: 300GB (7200U/min, 16MB Cache, 9ms, S-ATA II, NCQ)
> price: 130 Euros
> 
> 2. Western Digital
> model: WD3200SD (RAID Edition)
> size: 320GB (7200U/min, 8MB Cache, 8.9ms, S-ATA/150)
> price: 134 Euros

why not..

> Two of them as raid0 should operate faster than one of these high-price
> 500GB wonders with 5 platters inside. Raid0 would be done with Via chipset
> VT8237.

Why not using a normal native software raid? (maybe you intend to change your
mainboard someday..) The software raid from linux is in many cases faster and
more stable than some "raid"-adapters.

> Is it a hard struggle to get the raid0 encrypted? Are there readers around
> here with experience in this field? I consider Maxtor and WD as reliable
> drives.

you can painless encrypt nearly every block-device in linux

-- 
Florian Reitmeir

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