You can just turn off Bitlocker in the Windows settings from what I can tell. It just seems to default to encryption, like every other OS has for the last decade or so.
Can you provide a source for the 45% performance hit? The average consumer CPU can do a couple of GB per second of AES operations these days, so I wonder how you got to that number.
That number was only for random write performance. And if you have an SSD that supports TCG Opal and eDrive standard (IEEE-1667) for hardware based bitlocker encrytion then there is no negative speed impact.
No wonder the percentage is that high, the 990 Pro performs extremely well. I doubt the average gamer has an SSD that fast, though. But, on the other hand, the SSD tested has hardware encryption support, so by default the user wouldn’t notice anything regardless.
I’d be much more interested in benchmarks of common consumer SSDs in their standard configuration. Hopefully some tech outlet like LinusTechTips will test this at some point; they’d also be able to test real life video game performance, which would be a nice bonus.
macOS has encrypted the system partition since the T2 chip was introduced. Older hardware doesn’t do encryption by default, but you’ll need a device over seven years old for it not to come with encryption by default.
True, the system partition is, but not where actual user data is. That won’t be encrypted unless the user enables FileVault, granted it does ask during initial setup if you sign in to iCloud if you do want to enable it, but it’s default is off
You can just turn off Bitlocker in the Windows settings from what I can tell. It just seems to default to encryption, like every other OS has for the last decade or so.
Can you provide a source for the 45% performance hit? The average consumer CPU can do a couple of GB per second of AES operations these days, so I wonder how you got to that number.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-software-bitlocker-slows-performance
That number was only for random write performance. And if you have an SSD that supports TCG Opal and eDrive standard (IEEE-1667) for hardware based bitlocker encrytion then there is no negative speed impact.
No wonder the percentage is that high, the 990 Pro performs extremely well. I doubt the average gamer has an SSD that fast, though. But, on the other hand, the SSD tested has hardware encryption support, so by default the user wouldn’t notice anything regardless.
I’d be much more interested in benchmarks of common consumer SSDs in their standard configuration. Hopefully some tech outlet like LinusTechTips will test this at some point; they’d also be able to test real life video game performance, which would be a nice bonus.
Yeah it would only be that slow if you don’t have a CPU with AES-NI instructions (which were introduced nearly a decade and a half ago)
No desktop OS does, (Excepting the odd Linux distro I’m sure is out there), not even macOS does.
iOS/Android yes
macOS has encrypted the system partition since the T2 chip was introduced. Older hardware doesn’t do encryption by default, but you’ll need a device over seven years old for it not to come with encryption by default.
True, the system partition is, but not where actual user data is. That won’t be encrypted unless the user enables FileVault, granted it does ask during initial setup if you sign in to iCloud if you do want to enable it, but it’s default is off
Read the source. I just shortened it