Anyone who thinks that thieves want the contents of their hard drive, rather than the machine itself has an awfully high opinion of his own self-worth. Most the

Anyone who thinks that thieves want the contents of their hard drive, rather than the machine itself has an awfully high opinion of his own self-worth. Most thefts off that type are all about the hardware. We use whole-drive encryption because the pain surrounding the accidental disclosure of client data is so great. (I work for a bank.) The biggest problem? If certain system files become corrupt you lose the whole disk. It's not a decision to be taken lightly.