Do you use hard drive encryption?

I use bitlocker on smaller drives with personal data on them.

Then veracrypt containers which sit as follows alongside my unencrypted media on larger drives.

Veracrypt is cross platform between windows and MacOS. Bitlocker isn't.
 
Personal and important data is encrypted natively using ZFS. Generic data is on unencrypted datasets. Passwords are encrypted using KeePass and all online accounts use 2FA where possible.
 
I now have my new drive and I am trying to finalise issues before reinstalling.

From what I have read hardware encryption doesn't work natively with windows on nvme drives and it isn't considered to be as secure as it should be. This is a shame as all the reviews show it having virtually no slowdown.

Software drive encryption via windows cause a significant slowdown in performance but is now default on new windows installs.

As I said, the only thing I would be concerned about would be browser data but I suspect I will just go with whatever windows does as default when I install it which looks now to be software encrypted.
 
Usually only certain data needs to be encrypted, so it should be easy to separate it out to an encrypted partition or cloud service. I agree encrypting an entire Windows OS partition is overkill and could harm performance, but sadly with everything tied together via Microsoft accounts these days it's probably necessary.
 
Since quitting the IT rat race nearly 4 years ago I’ve not bothered encrypting anything.

Certainly wouldn’t bother on a gaming PC, a laptop I can understand at least.

Gaming PC wants max performance, not an additional overhead even if it’s a minor one. No point buying fast parts and then hobbling them, IMO.

If anyone wants to steal my gaming PC’s they’ll have to get past the 12 dogs first!
 
It looks like it isn't a decision we will have to make in the future as MS has made encryption the default from 24H2 onwards. There is probably a way around that but it means that going forward windows installs will almost all be encrypted and software developers will be writing for that environment.

I haven't reinstalled yet so I haven't decided whether to bother to disable it or just to go with the flow and let windows use its default settings.
 
freebooter said:
It looks like it isn't a decision we will have to make in the future as MS has made encryption the default from 24H2 onwards. There is probably a way around that but it means that going forward windows installs will almost all be encrypted and software developers will be writing for that environment.

I haven't reinstalled yet so I haven't decided whether to bother to disable it or just to go with the flow and let windows use its default settings.
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It's very simple to disable with Rufus, and I don't see how software developers would have to write for that environment.
 
Eddie99 said:
It's very simple to disable with Rufus, and I don't see how software developers would have to write for that environment.
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Agreed. Interacting with the file system is still read/write/copy. Applications don't care if it's encrypted or not. Write, close, dispose. Done.
 
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