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RN104: 50 % performance hit for encrypting?
In trying to decide whether to encrypt my drives on my new RN104 I came across this Facebook entry, purportedly from someone with Netgear: <<< ReadyNAS Niklas, there is a read/write performance ov...
MGBear wrote: I should have indicated in my original post that my only reason for considering drive encryption was in the event of a drive failure under warranty, I wanted to be able to send the drive back to the manufacturer without any concern about personal data (finances, PIM files, etc) recoverable on the drive.
Seagate's "Media Sanitization Practices During Product Return Process" document:
https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/support-content/warranty/_shared/masters/SeagateMediaSanitizationPractices%2005-Oct-2011%20FINAL.pdf
The other manufacturers have similar policies.
Plus, all modern drives support Secure Erase. Unless the drive fails catastrophically, Secure Erase will wipe it well enough to protect the sort of data you're concerned about.
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