From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AF152158094 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2022 21:47:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DD48E086E; Sat, 20 Aug 2022 21:47:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net [IPv6:2600:3c00:e000:1e9::8849]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D7ECFE0864 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2022 21:47:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Contact-TNet-Consulting-Abuse-for-assistance by tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-3) with ESMTPSA id 27KLl7Ua009782 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2022 16:47:07 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: From: Grant Taylor Organization: TNet Consulting Message-ID: <538627b4-b196-5165-2a4c-fa5c96f3724f@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 15:46:47 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8233beb7-d2a1-4b6b-8de0-98108a539684 X-Archives-Hash: 45ba6b0d1fffbbeaef4bbf3d82c32a49 On 8/20/22 1:15 PM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, Hi, > Related question. Does encryption slow the read/write speeds of a > drive down a fair amount? m > This new 10TB drive is maxing out at about 49.51MB/s or so. I actually > copied that from the progress of rsync and a nice sized file. > It's been running over 24 hours now so I'd think buffer and cache > would be well done with. LOL > > It did pass both a short and long self test. I used cryptsetup -s > 512 to encrypt with, nice password too. My rig has a FX-8350 8 core > running at 4GHz CPU and 32GBs of memory. The CPU is fairly busy. > A little more than normal anyway. Keep in mind, I have two encrypted > drives connected right now. > > Just curious if that speed is normal or not. > > Thoughts? > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > P. S. The pulled drive I bought had like 60 hours on it. Dang near > new. -- Grant. . . . unix || die