BitLocker software encryption slows performance. Here's how to fix it.
  • flying_monkies@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It sounds like the article is an update to the age old performance issue discussions between hardware and software RAID solutions.

    If you use a software solution for anything where there’s a dedicated hardware solution, the software solution is always slower due to CPU overhead.

    Article recommendation boils down to: If you’re going to use encryption, and you want your full disk speed, use a hardware encryption solution. In their test their hardware supported OPAL.

    • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This is not a reason to prevent switching, quite the opposite. Encryption is an awesome thing, and should always be used. It also inevitably causes slowdowns, but the best case is that it’s practically nonexistent of a performance hit. Not a lot of Linux distros let you set up luks root encryption in the installer, and it’s still pretty tricky to setup. But also if you’re using Linux, you should always be using luks encryption if you can as well.