On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 21:21, Adam Jensen wrote: > Will anyone suggest any before and after performance tests that I might > do to evaluate this card? Also, which encryption algorithms does the > softraid CRYPTO discipline support? I didn't find that information in > the man pages. It might be interesting to see if the Broadcom card will > enhance encrypted volume disk performance.
Honestly, I'd save your money. softraid uses AES in XTS mode, fwiw, which is (only) accelerated by CPUs with AESNI if you're running amd64.
