Background
I have two HP N54L and FreeNAS works fantastically on these. They are able to saturate 1Gbps connection, low power and the form factor is very convenient.
Recently, I had a drive failure and I was going to RMA it. Then I realized that the information was not encrypted: there is a good chance that my date is still readable (even if partially) and the support center might be able to access it. I don't have anything highly confidential, but I ended up not RMAing the drive for that reason.
Question
Pool encryption seems to be the solution of my problem, but the CPU on these boxes does not support AES-NI and it only outputs about 50MB/sec when geli is enabled. Of course buying two completely new machines with an AES-NI capable CPU would fix it. However, it would not be cost effective.
I noticed that FreeBDS supports Crypto Accelerators, I was wondering if that is the case and if anybody tried these with geli. I could not find much information.
I have two HP N54L and FreeNAS works fantastically on these. They are able to saturate 1Gbps connection, low power and the form factor is very convenient.
Recently, I had a drive failure and I was going to RMA it. Then I realized that the information was not encrypted: there is a good chance that my date is still readable (even if partially) and the support center might be able to access it. I don't have anything highly confidential, but I ended up not RMAing the drive for that reason.
Question
Pool encryption seems to be the solution of my problem, but the CPU on these boxes does not support AES-NI and it only outputs about 50MB/sec when geli is enabled. Of course buying two completely new machines with an AES-NI capable CPU would fix it. However, it would not be cost effective.
I noticed that FreeBDS supports Crypto Accelerators, I was wondering if that is the case and if anybody tried these with geli. I could not find much information.