In article <5.1.1.6.2.20030201181300.02629df0@idiom.com>, Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@POBOX.COM> wrote:

Now, 712 Mbit/sec is about 90 MByte/sec, which means if it were doing 3DES, it'd probably be about 30 MByte/sec, which is no longer fast enough to be entertaining.

Yes, it is. Despite the disk manufacturers' intentionally misleading spec sheets, most hard disks are not very much faster than 30 MB/s. For example, the new Barracuda V transfers between 23 and 44 MB/s, depending on where on the disk you read from. http://www.storagereview.com/benchimages/ST3120023A_str.png Even if the disk were infinitely fast, the Firewire interface is limited to 50 MB/s. I think this product would be extremely useful, if it is trustable. -- Shields.