Encrypt Entire Drive?

Eatchipz · 30 Jun 2011 at 01:06

Question pretty much in the Title. What is the best way to go about Encrypting my drive?

Is the FileVault which is in the System Prefs do this job? Any other alternatives?

MikeHiow · 1 Jul 2011 at 23:50

FileVault will do the job, but it will only encrypt your home directory.

Encrypting the whole drive isn't easily possible, and I'm not certain of that possibility with the Mac, but I cannot see why you'd need to encrypt anything other than your home dir?

shine · 1 Jul 2011 at 23:57

Full disk encryption is coming in Lion:

http://macosrumors.com/2011/02/27/full-system-encryption-macosx-lion/

MagicBoy · 2 Jul 2011 at 00:04

Third party products are available. We used Checkpoint FDE on the MBPs at work. No problems with it so far.

As mentioned above Full Disk Encryption is coming with Lion.