[Discuss] ZFS for an Encrypted External Disk: My Experience and Notes

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

Rich Pieri wrote: 
> If you are getting ~100MB/s sustained then that is about as fast as you
> can go on spinning disks regardless of the bus.

You will be surprised, as I recently was, that the new
enterprise spinning disks from Seagate and WD boast claimed
280MB/s transfers, which can actually be sustained at
200-250MB/s depending on the model. IOPS has increased, too,
though still a factor of 2000 or so under mid-range SSDs.

-dsr-