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Bit Locker hardware drive encryption


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I have a new lawyer customer who is paranoid and wants all hard drives encrypted. He has one machine on a Intel SS drive and it is encrypted with no issues. Dont think he is using Bit Locker. 

He has 2 other machines that he wants encrypted as well. He asked if Bit Locker would do the job and I am finding in Win7 you will get a 17% performance hit using Bit Locker even if drives support hardware encryption but if Win 8 it would not have this performance hit. 

 

Any advice will be appreciated. 

 

Thanks.

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What ever route you take , make sure you get everything backed up to a normal hard drive, or better still, use a NAS.

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Yes.. agreed on the backups for sure. Talking to him about getting a NAS for that reason. 

In his system he has an Intel 540 SSD that is 3 years old which is a SED (Self Encrypting Drive). I think a SED is the best option since his BIOS supports it. Screw Bit Locker.

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We are running Windows 7 Enterprise with BL on SSD´s on 10 000 computers and theres is now noticeble different when your are working with the computer.

The only time we notice a difference is when the computer are new installed and running the encryption for the harddrive, that they only do "once". :rtfm:

:lol:

Best regards

Souriel

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