[Discuss] ZFS for an Encrypted External Disk: My Experience and Notes

[markw at mohawksoft.com]

> On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:06:50 -0400
> markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
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>> Why two mirrors and not a RAID5 - or is RAID6 more appropriate 4T?
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> Because parity RAID (RAIDZ-1/2/3) is slow.

RAID has that reputation, but have you measured it recently? The ghz,
multicore beasts we have in our computers these days, with specialized
cryptography instructions are really very good.


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