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I'm getting a new development laptop soon, and I'm thinking of using TrueCrypt to encrypt the whole disk.
What kind of performance drop can I expect? 10%? 30%? More? Also, assuming the workload has an effect, would compiling/using Visual Studio be affected much? I cannot seem to find anything like this on the web.
1New Intel CPUs have hardware acceleration for AES. TrueCrypt supports it, and it makes encryption much faster. – KovBal – 2012-01-07T12:36:20.180
2From personal experience I have not noticed any significant performance impact when using Truecrypt and I'm in Visual Studio and running local virtual machines all day long. – Joe Kuemerle – 2009-07-22T02:27:17.330
1I can confirm the same - using TrueCrypt on my Thinkpad T500 on whole disk and haven't noticed any performance issues. – ljubomir – 2009-07-23T07:54:34.300