[Discuss] TrueCrypt with SSD

[cra at WPI.EDU (Chuck Anderson)]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:53:03AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> > bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Derek Atkins
> > 
> > Personally I've never encrypted my laptops before, but I started
> > encrypting my current one.  There is definitely a performance hit when
> > doing large data movements (it took me much longer to copy my homedir
> > from my old disk to the new encrypted disk) but I don't notice a
> > significant performance degredation in my everyday usage.
> 
> What are you using?  Both in terms of hardware, and encryption tool?
> Because I don't have a performance hit...  In various situations, on various
> types of hardware, using various encryption tools...

Not answering the above, but the Intel Core i-series (maybe only i7?)
has hardware AES, making FDE only take maybe 1% of CPU instead of
10-20%.