I did a benchmark before/after installing PGP WDE with HD Tach and I/O performance was reduced in excess of 65%. I'm curious what the difference would be between PGP WDE on a Seagate 7200 vs. a Seagate 5400 w/FDE.2 -- could the hardware solution be significantly faster? Anyone know of any benchmark testing on the Seagate drives as compared to software encryption? I get a measly 33MBps sustained read speed on my Dell D820 now with a 7200 drive w/PGP WDE 9.6.3 and I'm thinking there's gotta be a better solution.
Another issue I have with the Wave Software was that it appeared the max length of a password is 8 characters. That surely can't be right.
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I did a benchmark before/after installing PGP WDE with HD Tach and I/O performance was reduced in excess of 65%. I'm curious what the difference would be between PGP WDE on a Seagate 7200 vs. a Seagate 5400 w/FDE.2 -- could the hardware solution be significantly faster? Anyone know of any benchmark testing on the Seagate drives as compared to software encryption? I get a measly 33MBps sustained read speed on my Dell D820 now with a 7200 drive w/PGP WDE 9.6.3 and I'm thinking there's gotta be a better solution.
Another issue I have with the Wave Software was that it appeared the max length of a password is 8 characters. That surely can't be right.
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Joe