Intel CPUs got hardware AES instructions in 2010 or so. Even before that software AES went at a good clip, a 200+ MB/s. On top of that, the fragmented (seek do

Intel CPUs got hardware AES instructions in 2010 or so. Even before that software AES went at a good clip, a 200+ MB/s. On top of that, the fragmented (seek dominated) nature of typical database IO, and the fact this only happens only on cache misses...