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I'm weighing up going down this route - what kind of performance hit do you experience form using PGP WDE on your Mac? Thanks
by dotBen 16y ago
I'm weighing up going down this route - what kind of performance hit do you experience form using PGP WDE on your Mac? Thanks
- DEinspanjer 16y agoFrankly, I've never noticed it being there other than when I do some extremely IO expensive operations like data processing. When I do that on my MPB though, I'm just testing it. That work belongs on a server anyway if you want it to be fast.
- patrik 16y agoDuring normal use, the performance degradation is barely noticeable, it _feels_ like 10%–15%. Things become a bit more critical when working with larger files or during heavy I/O. One thing to consider, however, are SSDs. To my knowledge, encrypted data is only written to blocks that already contain random data. You therefore might want to look for disks whose performance does not degrade that much when free blocks are no longer available.