I find it interesting that nobody yet has mentioned TCG Opal with any of the latest popular consumer self-encrypting SSDs such as the Samsung EVOs and PROs. Yo

I find it interesting that nobody yet has mentioned TCG Opal with any of the latest popular consumer self-encrypting SSDs such as the Samsung EVOs and PROs. You get full speed disk access and SSD friendly encryption (the disk is always encrypted anyways) and a relatively elegant way to install an unencrypted boot loader (PBA) that prompts you for your password. There's a great open source Linux-based system for managing all of this (see my writeup https://vxlabs.com/2015/02/11/use-the-hardware-based-full-disk-encryption-your-tcg-opal-ssd-with-msed/ https://vxlabs.com/2015/02/11/use-the-hardware-based-full-di... ) and I hear recent windows has built in support.