Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[Ispro]

AA...Raid0 is called stripe set and exists of minimum 2 discs. The stripe set makes one "virtual" disc of the two with double capacity. Since the discs act like one disc there is an improvement in capacity and speed. Raid0 is dangerous in my eyes since if one disc has a head crash you´ll loose ALL data.

Raid1 is a simple HDD mirror...

IMO the key point regarding encryption is, that an FDE in a Raid systems has the problem that since several discs store data redundant and data is therefore redundant encrypted (5 to 20 times in a high level raid). It´s better to encrypt data before REACHING the disc, since you have to encrypt only once and the encrypted data is stored mulitple.

But for all NON raid systems I would consider FDEs as the better solution. SO we´ll see FDE in all discs in the next years....

BR

ISPRO