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Comment: Re:Is this really necessary? (Score 1) 220

by robizzle on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @10:44AM (#23159164) Attached to: Fujitsu HDD with AES 256-bit Encryption

Because when you use hardware instead of software to do the heavy lifting, you don't see the performance hit and you benefit from encryption on all partitions. Or at least that is the idea, I can't find the read/write rates to make sure there isn't (much of) a performance hit.