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Intel's AES-NI performance: Isn't the hard drive the bottleneck?
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Mar 15, 20261022 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Will I see a performance gain with AES-NI using dm-crypt/LUKS for hard drive system encryption? Isn't the hard drive the bottleneck even without hardware acceleration?
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The hard drive is the bottleneck in some cases (depends on how fast your CPU is), but there is some computation time before data is written to the drive, and that is what the implementation of the AES instruction set was for. It was also intended to…
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