SSD and Ubuntu FDE

[johnny]

I think there are only two  name SSD that work with Linux. Too me the WD 
10,000 RPM are your best bet.
Good Luck John McCown

On 03/07/2015 07:55 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:
> 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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