On Friday 07 March 2008 09:12, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
On Friday 07 March 2008 11:49:05 am Randall R Schulz wrote:
FDE: "Full Drive Encryption" (hardware based)
Not to be confused with:
FDB: "Fluid Dynamic Bearing"
Presumably the drive-integrated encryption requires specific driver software to be exploited. There seems to be quite a bit on the Web, but I know very little about this area.
Thanks Randall,
So probably it's better not to risk and go with 160Gb 7200rpm? I don't understand why they don't have 200GB without that encryption...
Well, it seems there are two possibilities _if_ there is no Linux support for the FDE: 1) The full-drive encryption is simply unavailable. 2) The drive cannot be accessed at all. But I can neither tell you which of these would be the case nor that Linux does in fact lack support for this capability. I'd do some checking before sacrificing 40 GB of capacity.
And also which one would be better to choose, NVidia Quatro 140M 128Mb or the one with Intel GMA X3100 GM965? I was going to go with NVidia, but then I read that it's not xgl compatible and one should use aixgl (or something like that).
Also something about which I know very little. I've never used a machine with Intel graphics, nor do I do much fancy 3D (Google Earth, Stellarium, Cellestia and some Second Life are it). I've only had one machine with nVidia, and that's one running 10.3 for which the openSUSE proprietary driver support actually works quite well, allowing me to run the aforementioned software.
-- Sergey Mkrtchyan
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