Laptop ssd hard drive encryption software

> I need software that will not inhibit speed & performance.
There's always the cost.

For Windows use either windows build in disk encryption (Vista+) or truecrypt.org.

For linux, use the dm-crypt build in extension. The problem is that I haven't seen any installer supporting it :(

I think that to ensure speed, you are best to only encrypt the sensitive data.  Maybe this could be /home or it could be a new dedicated partition called say "secret".  This way the rest of the file systems will run at native speed.

Well you have to use full disk encryption. With windows swap file and tmp files you can never be sure that you document isn't stored as temp file somewhere on the system.

Trucrypt is free, give it a try.

I've heard about perfomance loss of about 30% depending on CPU. A modern dual core CPU should not have such an impact. Since you can reverse the encryption, I would give it a try. Run a benchmark before and after the encryption and compare.

Tolomir

I can recommend PGP, as it does not slow down your system. I've tried it on several different systems with no drop in performance that the user (you) can recognise, it's only measurable in system performance tools like PC Mark etc.

It's not free, but still one of the encryption solutions for windows platform.

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