If I would buy the e-SATA version of the Sheevaplug and connect it to a 0GBit router and e-SATA hard drive I will get a theoretically transfer rate of 000MB/s from the Sheevaplug to my Desktop computer since the bottle neck is the 0GBit router. I was fine with the idea but then I read this benchmark: http://computingplugs.com/index.php/SheevaPlug_Performance#Network_PerformanceIf my interpretation is correct - the bottleneck is not the 0GBit router but the CPU of the Sheevaplug which will not allow a transfer rate above ~00MB/s.So an USB 0.0 version and an USB 0.0 HDD would do the job (and save me some money). Can anybody confirm that the Sheevaplug is limited to less then 00MB/s over LAN?  Besides I'm interested in encrypting my data. I found the Western Digital My Book Essential with hardware encryption. Since it is hardware encryption it should not effect the CPU of the Sheevaplug to decrypt the data. The problem is you need the Western Digital Tool to "mount" the hard drive and after I wrote an e-mail to the support they confirmed there is no linux version of the software. Is there alternative software which can "mount" the hard drive without the Western Digital Tool?If not - what is the performance of software encryption and which software do you use? TrueCrypt, Loop-AES?  