On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:58:33PM -0400, George Sinclair wrote:
> Because NW is already writing the data in proprietary format, it doesn't  
> seem so bad to have it encrypt it also. Otherwise, you have the data in  
> one format and the encryption in another. Two hurdles to clear there,  
> but again, I have no idea how similar or strong NW encryption is versus  
> the drive manufacturer's encryption. Not sure what standards the drive  
> encryption uses either?

Encryption is very CPU-intensive.  Generally hardware solutions (drive,
appliance, etc.) are required to avoid significant reduction in
throughput.  Especially in high-throughput cases like multiple LTO
drives.

-- 
Darren

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