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Big slow down on Plextor m.2 SSD when encrypted with TC Twofish

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BirdDad

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What use to take five seconds to boot now takes a minute.
I was wondering if it would be worth it to upgrade to a Samsung SM951?
I am using a Plextor M6e PX-G256M6e now.
I am using it in an ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer motherboard.
I must have encryption.
Would I notice a big speed up?
 
Is it hardware or software encryption?

Did you test the I/O before encrypting. True Crypt has I/O test option.
 
What CPU do you have? If you have an Intel core i5 or core i7, then you should really use AES encryption, as this is accelerated in the CPU.
 
the thing is is when I removed my firewire card it booted in under 15 seconds
maybe that was the problem
 
BirdDad said:
the thing is is when I removed my firewire card it booted in under 15 seconds
maybe that was the problem
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Ah, well yeah , see:

1) Computer turns on
2) BIOS talks to all the hardware, figures out what's here.
3) BIOS tells drive to start booting OS.
4) Login prompt.

If you're counting "boot time" as everything from step 1-4, most of that isn't dependent on your HDD/SSD. Your HDD/SSD only matters for 3-4. Defective or cranky hardware can draaaastically increase the time spent on step 2.
 
I am counting the time between when I press enter after entering my password and the time it takes to get me to the windows login screen
Thanks
 
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