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Speed of TrueCrypt whole disk encryption

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Mar 15, 202650581 views
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I'm getting a new development laptop soon, and I'm thinking of using TrueCrypt to encrypt the whole disk. What kind of performance drop can I expect? 10%? 30%? More? Also, assuming the workload has an effect, would compiling/using Visual Studio be affected much? I cannot seem to find anything like …

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I don't have specific numbers, but there will be some drop in performance, albeit a slight one. There was a blog post that described the general performance of complete disk encryption on a system partition and how that can affect the users perceive…

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