Disk/Volume Encryption

ReadyNAS has a generally excellent product line, that combined with the upcoming expiration of Windows Server 2003 support, could certainly see significantly increased deployment within the bulk of our client environments currently leveraging Server 2003/2008 for file & print services only. Lack of support for data/disk encryption is the ONLY element holding back our recommendation of ReadyNAS products for new deployments.

FDE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-based_full_disk_encryption) drives have been on market for over half a decade, they are abundantly easy to acquire, show zero measurable negative performance or longevity impacts, and they're barely 10% more expensive than non-self encrypting drives.

Between the comparatively low costs, dead-simple ease of installation and use, an increasingly stronger legal and regulatory landscape, and the obvious penchant by thieves to focus on digital data theft...it would be reckless and negligent of us to recommend any NAS/fileserver products which do not leverage the functions of standards based full disk encryption.

When will the ReadyNAS product line(s) be able to leverage the pre-existing/built-in hardware level 128/256-bit (AES) full disk encryption functions available for an increasingly growing number of mainstream enterprise and NAS quality disk drives?

Seeing as FDE feature request has been going on on this forum since 2008, the outcome doesn't look well.