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newman314 on Jan 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: ZFS for Mac OS X Breaths New Life

With new Core iX processers now being able to do AES in hardware, I wonder if the CPU requirement for encryption will go down significantly once/if support is enabled.

ciupicri on Jan 10, 2011 [–]

Not all Core iX processors have support for the new AES instructions.

newman314 on Jan 10, 2011 | [–]

From what I can tell, most if not all of the new Sandy Bridge based Core iX processors will.

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