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 - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
