FYI (large devices = looooonnngg processing times)

[Curt Howland]

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On Saturday 27 April 2013, Michael ODonnell was heard to say:
> Even on just a silly little RAID1 mirror on a multi-Tb
> array I dread seeing the various messages announcing
> "routine" maintenance and diagnostic operations as
> they take forever and don't come for free, resource-wise...

When I bought a 1TB external drive and decided to encrypt it, I wanted 
to randomize if first, dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sdb or whatever it 
was, USB3.

6 days later I made the mistake of playing a SpaceRip youtube video in 
full screen, and Flash locked up the box. The randomizing still 
wasn't done, but I gave up on that and encrypted the drive anyway.

Yes, TerraByte drives are, as was said to Cyrano DeBergerac, "Rather 
Large."

- -- 
The Magistrate, enrobed in taxes, condemns the thief in stolen rags.

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