[BBLISA] Looking for FDE single system windows 8

[Edward Ned Harvey (bblisa4)]

> From: bblisa [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of John P.
> Rouillard
> 
> But the question is will win 8 pro run like a dog on the netbook?
> Currently the netbook has windows 8 basic (i.e. non-pro) on it.

No comment.  But separately:

One thing worth mention - Basically any CPU can encrypt/decrypt much faster than a disk can transfer data.  So you don't suffer any performance degradation as a result of encrypting the drive.  (On a 2.3 or 2.4 Ghz i3 or i5, sustained maximum throughput on a single disk, consumes about 30-40% cpu of a single core.)

No matter what encryption product you use, assuming you use AES, it is highly worthwhile to get a CPU with the AES-NI instruction set.  This accelerates AES instructions by about 10x so you literally can't even measure the 3-4% cpu utilization, mixed in with all the other "idle" cpu utilization.