SSD Whole Disk Encryption

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Dr. Herbert West

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I was wondering if anyone has tried encrypting their SSD at all. Using such software as PGP Whole Disk Encryption. I am wondering if this will greatly reduce the life of an SSD or it's overall performance.
 
With modern equipment it will be perfectly fine. There can be an ever so slight performance hit but pretty hard to notice making it insignificant.
 
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Hrm, I see Ocz Vertex 2 Pro has hardware AES 128, I am sure that would do even better but that drive is rather highly priced. Maybe I will give it a shot when I get my drive.
 
I think one of the key issues is how the different layers of the encrypted filesystem drivers come together, and whether the layer directly controlling the physical disk supports TRIM. That would be my concern on the matter, not just the performance hit.

The answer may differ for PGP, Truecrypt, Safeguard etc... I haven't researched in depth, just pondered...
 
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