TrueCrypt and performance? Does anyone use TrueCrypt or other whole hard drive encryption solutions?
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I have full drive encryption on mine using TrueCrypt and have no problems at all. Just don't try to flash the drives firmware from inside Windows, because it will fail and you will damage your master boot record. It was easily fixable with the TrueCrypt rescue disk, but it was scary at first. When you want to flash the firmware on the drive, select the option to create a bootable CD.
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Performance is more than adequate for me - main use is local backup of RAID drives (attached to 2 Apple iMacs) and iPad/iPhone in-house access to any of that data (Drobo is attached to Apple APE-AC). My primary objective was easy admin: adding & changing shares & permissions, mix & match various SATA drives types and sizes, data redundancy w/o true RAID, swap & add of HDs without any admin. my short list included Synology, but made the decision just on ease of admin. I am aware of some horror stories concerning data loss with Drobo, but I keep it on a UPS and it's just a backup for me.
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This is too slow to use for surveillance applications by itself. You want at least a 7200 RPM spin rate to keep up. I have one and it drops frames. I'm leaving the OS on this one and will get WD RE 3 TB Enterprise Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA III, 64 MB Cache for video database. Much more expensive, but should get the job done right. If you have this in a high speed RAID enclosure then the slower write speed is masked by performance boost of the RAID.
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I have 4 external hard drives hooked up to my wndr3700v2 via a USB hub and the performance is very good. There seems to be a problem and about once a week I lose access to one of the hard drives, but rebooting the router fixes that. Hopefully that problem will get fixed in a future firmware release. *** Update *** I had Netgear replace my router with a new one to address some buggy behavior. The new one has the same issues. This router is just a little rough around a few edges. Regarging the USB HDD performance, I am quite happy with it with the exception that is seems to lose the connection to one of the hard drives on Sundays (SERIOUSLY). *** Update 2 *** I discovered that there is a sleep feature in my Seagate external USB hard drives. I disabled that using the Seagate/Iomega utility and my NAS performance has been great with no disconnects. Currently I have 3 USB hard drives connected via a powered USB hub and am happy with it.
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The most reliable way software is probably TrueCrypt. It is for free and also open source which is a security plus. Their site has instructions on how to use it for a usb drive.
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As an owner of two Drobo's, I wouldn't buy another one of them. Look at the Synology NAS devices. I can't think of any aspect where the Synology isn't superior - especially the tech support. Or if fireproof, waterproof and bulletproof counts, look at ioSafe which runs the Synology software.
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I use mine to back up Time Machine on a daily basis. It operates in the background and I never know if its slow or not. Not a problem for me.
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I'm running 4x1.5TB drives with ZFS RAID-Z and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a flash drive with 2x4GB 1333. It's been performing very well, no complaints! I'm just not looking forward to when I have to upgrade those drives, at least they were free.
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Hi Jun,Yes I have... and erased it very quickly!Here's what happened. I installed the programme as instructed. It worked beautifully... until I tried to start up one day and my PC replied it had to do something as apparently I had switched it off incorrectly... Usually this is quite harmless and windows starts up without any problems... but you've guessed it: not when the system has been crypted. After having tried everything, I had to use the Rescuedisk I had made to decrypt my laptop... which took a cool 26 hours!So... I have been cured and removed TrueCrypt as soon as the laptop worked again! Hi Jun,Yes I have... and erased it very quickly!Here's what happened. I installed the programme as instructed. It worked beautifully... until I tried to start up one day and my PC replied it had to do something as apparently I had switched it off incorrectly... Usually this is quite harmless and windows starts up without any problems... but you've guessed it: not when the system has been crypted. After having tried everything, I had to use the Rescuedisk I had made to decrypt my laptop... which took a cool 26 hours!So... I have been cured and removed TrueCrypt as... » Read More Hi Jun,Yes I have... and erased it very quickly!Here's what happened. I installed the programme as instructed. It worked beautifully... until I tried to start up one day and my PC replied it had to do something as apparently I had switched it off incorrectly... Usually this is quite harmless and windows starts up without any problems... but you've guessed it: not when the system has been crypted. After having tried everything, I had to use the Rescuedisk I had made to decrypt my laptop... which took a cool 26 hours!So... I have been cured and removed TrueCrypt as soon as the laptop worked again! « Show Less
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The encryption is handled by the hardware. You do not need to do anything or install anything for it to work.
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Ok so there's a few things you need to understand in relation to comparing speeds. First there's no standard read write speeds for hdds my 7200 3tb drive ranges from 72 to 150 MB/s Next plastered drives are hard to compare directly with solid state. Platter drives read faster on the inner tracks compared to the litter tracks. There's also spin - up and spin down time for a platter drive. Now this ssd WILL max out your 3gbs sata2 at about 300 to 380MB/s Of course you look and see oh that's only double. True long read will be about double speed. However, it's those short access small files that'll benefit the most. Ssds have no platter. So no spin speed. They just send as much as the device / interface can handle. They also don't "seek" for data so there's no time loss there. In random reads my ssd is roughly 60x faster over all. But if I'm moving a TB of movies or whatnot. It's not AS remarkably fast but still a 100% better experience.
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Hello, not sure how you would encrypt the disk -- but Ubuntu usually knows the correct drivers to install for everything. That is the main reason I use it for fixing up older computers. Mostly just load program & you are set -- you can look & see if your laptop would need adjustments on ubuntu hardware page for laptops -- it list a lot of machines & the quirks that they might need as far as special settings. Hope this helps a little
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Well, all 4 of ours work pretty well, albeit they are not stunningly fast. I did notice the performance really slows down after the first couple TB of small files. But I suspect that's due to Samba, and I wish I could get into the unit, O/S wise, to tune it
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It does, and it is faster to access, very fast actually. However I have to recommend a Synology drive over the Seagate. The completely messed up web interface, unreliability of the backup system, etc. makes it basically unusable if you want serious network tools and protections.
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From the search, Windows 8 pro has three file settings of "BitLocker Drive Encryption", Manage file encryption certificates, and Manage BitLocker. None of which I know how to use at this time.
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If you buy cheap externals like I did yes but it will also force your RAID into read only. If you spend the extra on NAS drives then you're fine. It's not the enclosure that dictates that but the firmware on the drives themselves.
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for everyone this data will be of interest: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/these are big samples, 2014 data, and the models of HGST 4TB drives are outperforming others in terms of reliability as well as price/perf