[Discuss] TrueCrypt with SSD

[bene at klatsch.org (Ben Eisenbraun)]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:41:04PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> As I said, and others have said the same thing, the most cpu overhead
> you'll see, depending on your processor and the encryption algorithm, is
> 1%, 3%, 20%, 30%...

20-30% extra CPU usage on a laptop for disk operations puts a serious dent
in your battery life.

I'm just sayin'. I don't have a horse in this race.

-b

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