SSD and Ubuntu FDE

[Petter Adsen]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:19:26 +0800
Marcos Almeida Azevedo <marcos.al.azevedo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Linda Wee <lindawee555 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > I am about to purchase a Crucial BX100 120GB to replace my HDD. I
> > read that it doesn't provide hardware acceleration for Full Disk
> > Encryption (FDE). Should I be concerned (in terms of performance)
> > about such a matter, given that I am indeed planning to use the
> > default LUKS FDE (as is the case for my current HDD) and the PC is
> > used for word processing and spreadsheets (no gaming, video
> > editing)?
> >
> >
> I think it should be ok.  LUKS FDE will generally use CPU right?  So
> if you have a good processor, I guess it is ok.

As an additional question to this - how big of a performance impact do
you get without the CPU extensions for hardware encryption? I have an
AMD processor, 3.4GHz/4 cores without these extensions, but I've been
thinking about trying it out for a while.

Petter

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