It sounds like the article is an update to the age old performance issue discussions between hardware and software RAID solutions.
If you use a software solution for anything where there’s a dedicated hardware solution, the software solution is always slower due to CPU overhead.
Article recommendation boils down to: If you’re going to use encryption, and you want your full disk speed, use a hardware encryption solution. In their test their hardware supported OPAL.
If you set up hardware encryption, be sure to change the master password and set the security level to maximum. Also look up if the manufacturer of your SSD is known to sell drives with broken encryption or shitty implementations of useful encryption.
There’s a good reason Microsoft stopped trusting hardware encryption in Bitlocker.
It sounds like the article is an update to the age old performance issue discussions between hardware and software RAID solutions.
If you use a software solution for anything where there’s a dedicated hardware solution, the software solution is always slower due to CPU overhead.
Article recommendation boils down to: If you’re going to use encryption, and you want your full disk speed, use a hardware encryption solution. In their test their hardware supported OPAL.
If you set up hardware encryption, be sure to change the master password and set the security level to maximum. Also look up if the manufacturer of your SSD is known to sell drives with broken encryption or shitty implementations of useful encryption.
There’s a good reason Microsoft stopped trusting hardware encryption in Bitlocker.