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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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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I use MacFuse to access my NTFS partition on Bootcamp. Am just ordering the drive now, will see if MacFuse+NTFS is any faster or slower than Fat32.
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It did not work for me as well after first try, although I did not try hard. I decided, it is simply do not worth to spend time trying to make it work. I bought a new 2TB new SATA-6 drive for $85 and decided do not use internal RAID at all. I have RAID on external NAS with all data and cloned internal drive with all programs.
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5400 is slow. It also allows the drive to produce significantly less heat. Pack several drives into a small space and heat becomes an issue. I don't need my NAS to be fast. I do need it to be reliable. Cooking the drive in the middle caused me trouble in the past.
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No. Absolutely ZERO software for cloning, migrating, optimizing, etc.... It's really sad. NO ONE in the industry even comes close to the Samsung SSD Magician software. This is a REALLY FAST SSD though. Faster than the 840 EVO and 840 Pro.... but sometimes the add-in software makes all the difference if you're not technical. In my case, I was able to use Western Digital's branded version of Acronis TrueImage for free b/c my original boot from which I migrated was a 1TB WD Green drive.
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I used an mSATA Bullet Proof 4 Solid State Drive 128gb purchased also on Amazon. I run my OS and programs from it while using the conventional drive for storage. Both operate concurrently.
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Just as KrellSteel said, works fine once you use Disk Manager on it. I have a 4TB drive, a WD40EURX, and gave it a GUID partition with NTFS, and drive letter for convenience, and it's copying files like a champ as I type. Copying 200GB of data (5% of it's capacity) takes about 40 minutes.
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Yes, It is very conservative when it comes for the disks. My diskstation rejected 2 hard drives of mine that I never suspected. One of those disks died one month later. Anyway the raid config is still the best choice to avoid surprises.
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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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Everything gets automatically encrypted as you write the files/folders to the jump drive. I havent noticed an lag/unusually slow write speeds because of this.
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The drive do not come with build in firmware encryption. It is like a regular fast speed SSD 512gb drive. I use a Windows 7 bit blocker and other encryption software.
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Be careful. The difficulty in making the most basic configurations on this device (turning it on, turning it off, resetting) could present you with problems in doing anything more complicated. I guess if you have to use this device (which I do not recommend), make sure you do not have sensitive data on it. My device basically decided to reset itself and I lost access to my data. I think Seagate has gone downhill sorry to say.
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My understanding is that NTFS provides more security and increases performance. Here is a link that will help understand the differences: http://www.diffen.com/difference/FAT32_vs_NTFS
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This adapter does not encrypt anything. It is no different than a FireWire 400 to FireWire 800 adapter or USB to Mini USB. The functionality is simply to connecting a cable to a machine that does not natively support that cable. I have used this with my G-Raid, which still reads via FireWire 800. So far the adapter itself has not broken and still does it's function without issue.
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As long as I have been around computers, I don't know what "a write protected software" is. It has some basic protections for who accesses the folders, password protection and such, but I'm not sure if that's what you mean. I have not formatted the drive, it worked fine out of the box. Do take note of the few people who complained of the interior of the drive pulling out of the aluminum casing. That has not happened to me, but I thought I'd pass it along. Sorry I can't be of more help with the question... Maybe if you restate it we can help. :)
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http://www.storagereview.com/buffalo_drivestation_ddr_review_hdgdu3 Look under the performance heading on this website.