Laptop CPU, SSD, and TrueCrypt

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lordsegan

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I plan to buy an i7 4700MQ based laptop with an 840 Pro SSD. I do a lot of work where I have to use windows to search old Word Docs (literally thousands of files sometimes).

It's pretty slow on my current Core 2 Duo E7500 with HDDs. So this will be a big improvement.

But. I have to load TrueCrypt for full drive encryption if I use a lappy.

Will that slow it down much?
 
Yes and no.

Random access time will be a vast improvement.

But it depends on your method of encryption.
 
It's a huge step up hardware wise, especially considering that the i7-4700MQ has AES hardware acceleration. I don't think you'll experience any serious perormance issues. But the load is still going to be there so battery life will suffer.
 
I'd recommend finding an indexing program you trust, so that you can have it index your word documents once, then just query the index to find the results you need (which would be pretty much instantaneous).

New laptops usually support SATA encryption (no performance penalty since it's done by the SSD firmware), which the 840 Pro also supports. So no need to use Truecrypt if you're happy with 128-bit AES - just set the password in the UEFI BIOS.
 
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